An asteroid is enough to change life on Earth, and the extinction of dinosaurs. Many people think it is the result of an asteroid explosion. There are many worrying things in nature, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroid impacts, etc. The creatures on earth bring disaster to the extreme.
So here comes the problem. The planetary speed is 32,000 kilometers per second, and the power is equivalent to 10 atomic bombs. If there is an explosion, the earth will burst without warning and fall into a blazing burning disaster. You will worry about this kind of thing. Did it happen?
Geologists believe that the planet itself will not explode, but proponents of the planetary explosion hypothesis have questioned them. They feel that the planet has a tendency to be uneasy, and catastrophic explosions may occur at any time, and even claim to have The evidence has occurred many times in the solar system.
The planetary explosion hypothesis can be traced back to the middle of the 18th century, German mathematics professor John Titus noticed that there are unusual positions of planets in our solar system. The distance between them and the sun seems to be arranged regularly. The distance between each planet and the sun is approximately equal to twice the distance between its inner neighbor planet and the sun.
Titius did not understand why the planets are distributed like this. He only noticed this phenomenon-with one notable exception: there is a huge gap between Mars and Jupiter , and, according to this distribution pattern, there should be a planet there.
Titius' observations and discoveries did not attract many people's attention in other respects. It was not until 1781 that something happened that made it the focus of strict scrutiny.
In that year, another astronomer discovered Uranus outside Saturn. This new discovery surprised everyone. As the seventh planet, Uranus happened to be predicted by Titus s position.
Titius’s model is accepted by people,Start studying the gap between Mars and Jupiter. This pattern reflects the position of Uranus and where the planet between Mars and Jupiter has gone.
At that time, European astronomers searched, and by the early 19th century, many asteroids were found in that location. This area of the solar system is called asteroid belt .
In 1972, British astronomer Michael Overdon published an article in Nature, raising concerns: a planet between Mars and Jupiter exploded, and once imagined that this planet was a huge The gas giant planet is 90 times the size of the Earth.
If a huge planet once existed between Mars and Jupiter, but it suddenly "disappeared" about 16 million years ago, then the current position of the planet is said to be It makes sense. After the disappearance event, Mars will slowly approach Jupiter, although it will take millions of years before it reaches the position of least gravitational force.
But what makes a planet "dissipate" so quickly? Owenden thought there was only one possibility: it must have exploded. He believed that most of the planet must have been swallowed by Jupiter, while the rest became the asteroid belt.
In the late 1970s, an exhibition called "What Happened to Krypton" inspired by Owenden's hypothesis was on tour in North American planetariums, but it did not impress astronomers much.
Tom Van Freunden of the United States Naval Observatory is a reputable astronomer who has never been far away from common beliefs.But the idea of a planet exploding spontaneously attracted him deeply.
Under the influence of Owenden's hypothesis, he suddenly changed direction and ran towards unorthodox science. Over the next few decades, his colleagues were puzzled to find that he changed his research direction.
Van Flanden concluded that in addition to the existence of the asteroid belt, there is more evidence that a planetary explosion occurred long ago.
In fact, he began to believe that this place of the solar system was full of wounds left by explosions and burnings that occurred in the past, and all the strange aspects of the solar system suddenly had a brand new meaning in his eyes.
On the contrary, Van Flanden argued that Mars must have been a satellite of the exploding planet proposed by Owenden. Therefore, when the planet exploded, the shock wave hit the hemisphere facing Mars with full force, leaving it with countless impact craters, while the reverse side was not damaged.
Then, there are the satellites of Saturn- Titan unusual color differences. Half of it is dark. After careful consideration of Owenden’s catastrophe theory, Van Flanden concluded that in addition to the existence of the asteroid belt, there is more evidence to prove that planetary explosions occurred a long time ago. .
In fact, he began to believe that this place of the solar system was full of wounds left by explosions and burnings that occurred in the past, and all the strange aspects of the solar system suddenly had a brand new meaning in his eyes.
On the contrary, Van Flanden argued that Mars must have been a satellite of the exploding planet proposed by Owenden. So when that planet exploded,The shock wave hit the hemisphere facing Mars with full force, leaving it with countless impact craters, while the reverse side was not damaged.
However, Van Frandon argued that the shock wave generated by the exploding planet caused half of the planet to blacken, and the dark hemisphere became what it is now. Due to the extremely slow rotation of Titan, only one side of the moon faces the shock wave. He claimed: "This explains why the other moons of Saturn do not have similar color differences-they all rotate fast enough to be evenly blackened."
As time passed year after year, Van Frandon's imagination of the violent solar system became more sophisticated and complicated. He concluded that planetary explosions were not a one-time event in the history of the solar system, but a recurring feature.
It was not until the 1990s that a more probable conjecture entered people’s field of vision-it was said to be possible because it did not contain any impossible physical principles, not because it Any aspect reflects the orthodox thinking of science. This is the "geological reactor hypothesis."
The nucleus of some planets may be a huge sphere made of the highly radioactive element uranium, acting as a natural nuclear fission reactor. Uranium can fission and release neutrons. If these uranium are collected together, the fission of one atom can cause the fission of surrounding atoms.
Therefore, imagine a pile of uranium spanning five to ten miles, fissioning inside a planet. Under normal circumstances, a uranium reactor only releases energy and does not explode. Something must compress the uranium into a very compact sphere, hold the atoms close to each other, and bring them to supercritical masses to trigger an explosion.
The earth is rich in uranium, which is the heaviest metal in nature.In the process of planet formation, under the right conditions, it may sink directly into the core of the earth and be there. If there is indeed five-mile-diameter, spherical, high-temperature uranium in the core of the earth, then our It is only a matter of time before the homeland becomes the next Krypton.
But let’s not mention that the earth might explode-what if it has already exploded? In the long saga of the planetary explosion hypothesis, this idea constitutes its most recent and possibly the most sensational development. Obviously, the explosion cannot be so big that it completely destroys the earth.
But it may be big enough to leave some kind of shocking evidence that it now hangs above our heads most nights: the moon. The origin of the moon is a real mystery to scientists, and considering that it is a celestial body so familiar to us, this matter may seem a bit paradoxical. You would think they should figure out where the moon came from by now.
However, it is still extremely difficult to explain how the moon formed. The problem is that the moon is very big—it is so big that if it happens to fly near the earth, the gravity of the earth cannot capture it.
The lunar rocks are chemically almost identical to the earth's rocks, which is like a giant ice cream scoop digging a scoop from the earth's mantle and then placing it in the orbit of the sky. For scientists, the challenge is to explain how the scoop appeared there.
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