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![]() Humans tend to be creatures of habit, plodding along through time, eagerly looking toward the future, but rarely looking with question at circumstances from the past which have set them on their present course. Much of astrophysics and geophysics has been built upon flawed ideas that are 40 or more years old. J. Marvin Herndon, pictured at left, has discovered and corrected past flaws. The consequence is a whole different way of understanding Earth and Universe that is securely anchored to the properties of matter. Sharing that understanding is what this website is all about. J. Marvin Herndon's Scientific Discoveries and Insights with Descriptions, References, and Download Links (click here) Guest Editorial: Some Reflections on Science and Discovery (Click Here) en español Global Environmental Warfare Publications (click here) New Explanation about the Man in the Moon (click here) Scientific and Medical Humanitarian Publications: (click here) New Basis of Mars' Marsology (click here) Ozone Layer Destroyed by Coal Fly Ash not Chlorofluoro carbon Gases (click here) and (click here) California Wildfires 2018 Publication (click here)
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Ongoing Coal-Fly-Ash Toxic Environmental Warfareing | ||
Since at least 1958 the military has engaged in spraying particles into the air presumably to study weather modification. These activities were sporadic in time and location. But about 2010, during the Obama Administration, the aerial spraying of particulates became a near-daily activity across North America, the European Union, the British Commonwealth, and other countries including China, Egypt, India, Russia and perhaps others. This was a covert activity with denial and disinformation seemingly coordinated at all levels of government. No information was made available on the particle compositions sprayed into the air we all breathe, and no information on potentially adverse health risks. Following are statements/questions with links to answers: J. Marvin Herndon, PhD and Mark Whiteside, MD, MPH and a few colleagues to date are the only scientists to publish in the peer-reviewed scientific literature on the compositions, human and eenvironmental health risks of the aerial spraying and their psuedo-legal basis: ●Global Environmental Warfare Publications (click here) ●Scientific and Medical Humanitarian Publications (click here) ● Evidence of Undisclosed Global Geoengineering (click here) How can a non-scientist understand the aerial spraying and its consequences, particularly on health? One way is to listen to and view the scientifically-correct music videos whose lyrics were written by J. Marvin Herndon. (click here) What are they spraying into the air we breathe? Forensic scientific investigations are consistent with coal fly ash the toxic waste product of buring coal being the main substance sprayed into the air we breathe (click here). How do particles sprayed into the air affect the weather? Persistent aerial spraying of particulate matter into the regions where clouds form (1) inhibits rainfall to the point of massive downpours, the so-called "drought or deluge" effect, (2) heats the atmosphere, (3) retards heat loss from the Earth, and (4) upon falling to earth, absorbs sunlight. In short, the aerial spraying destroys the natural weather cycle, contaminates Earth’s biosphere, and causes global warming — consequences falsely blamed on fossil fuel burning. California Desiccation: Setting the Stage for California Fires (click here). How does the aerial spraying endanger human health? The adverse public health effects of aerosolized particulate matter can be inferred from pollution studies of particulates 2.5 mm and smaller. Exposure to such particles has been shown to be associated with increased hospital admissions, morbidity and premature mortality, risk for cardiovascular disease and lung cancer, other lung diseases including asthma, diabetes, risk for stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, reduced renal function in older men, low birth weight, reduced male fertility and decreased cognitive ability in older women. Adverse health effects of aerosolized coal fly ash (CFA) include (1) neurological disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, (2) lung cancer and respiratory disorders, and (3) numerous other disorders resulting from the plethora of toxic elements in this material, including arsenic, mercury, and radioactive elements. The most at risk are the young, the old, and those with compromised respiratory and immune systems. Earth scientists, even those who study the atmosphere, are silent about the near-daily aerial particulate spraying as if it does not exist. Why would they not tell the truth when science is all about telling the truth, the full truth? What corrupted Earth scientists? (click here) Explanations of three attempts (two successful) by a disinformation team to cause retractions of peer-reviewed and published public health scientific papers that provide evidence of slow and insidious aerosol poisoning of millions of people. No one has the right to poison people and no one has the right to hide public health risks from the public. Their actions prove that those ordering the aerosol spraying know well the health risks and want to hide that knowledge from the public. (click here for pdf) |
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WebPage: Public Deception by Scientists in Environmental Research Letters (click here)
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Science Magazine Geoengineering Non-Debate:
Ignorance is not an Option, but Neither is Deceit (click here)
Thousands of
Photos Showing Aerial Particulate Spraying (click here) |
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Nuclear Fission Georeactor at Earth's Center | ||
![]() ![]() WebPage: Herndon's Nuclear Georeactor (click here) WebPage: Frequently Asked Questions about Earth's Georeactor (click here) Many first learned about the georeactor from the cover feature of the August 2002 issue of Discover magazine, entitled "Nuclear Planet". For a link to that article, click here: |
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Georeactor Origin of Earth's Magnetic Field | ||
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Earth's Interior Composition | ||
![]() WebPages: Herndon's Nickel Silicide Inner Core Composition (click here) Herndon's Composition of Earth's Interior Parts Below 660 km (click here) Herndon's Composition of D'' (click here) Deep-Earth Oxidation State (click here) Answered Questions about Earth's Interior Composition (click here) Important Paper: J. Marvin Herndon, Geodynamic basis of heat transport in the Earth. (click here for pdf), Current Science, 2011, 101,1440-1450. |
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Early Earth Formation as a Jupiter-like Gas Giant | ||
![]() Figure at left illustrates Earth's early formation as a Jupiter-like gas giant, from left to right: 1) Earth condensing inside a giant gaseous protoplanet; 2) Fully formed gas-giant Earth; 3) Gases striped away by T-Tauri solar wind; 4) Ancient Compressed Earth (64% present diameter); 5) Present Earth; 6) Jupiter for size comparison. For more details, references, and links to download scientific papers, please check out the following WebPages: Earth's Early Formation as a Jupiter-like Gas Giant (click here) Quick Overview of Herndon's New Indivisible Geoscience Paradigm (click here) WebPages: Tribute to Lynn Margulis (click here) |
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Whole-Earth Decompression Dynamics | ||
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![]() WebPages: Whole-Earth Decompression Dynamics (click here) Important Papers: J. Marvin Herndon, Whole-Earth decompression dynamics. (click here for pdf), Current Science, 2005, 89,1937-1941. J. Marvin Herndon, Energy for geodynamics: Mantle decompression thermal tsunami. (click here for pdf), Current Science, 2006, 90,1605-1606. J. Marvin Herndon, Geodynamic basis of heat transport in the Earth. (click here for pdf), Current Science, 101,1440-1450 (2011). J. Marvin Herndon, Origin of mountains and primary initiation of submarine canyons: the consequences of Earth's early formation as a Jupiter-like gas giant. (click here for pdf), Current Science, 2012, 102,1370-1372. J. Marvin Herndon, Fictitious Supercontinent Cycles (click here for pdf), YouTube Videos: 21st Century Earth Dynamics Part 1 (click here) Download .wmv video file Part 1 (click here) 21st Century Earth Dynamics Part 2 (click here) Download .wmv video file Part 2 (click here) |
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New Concept for the Origin of Fjords | ||
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Oil and Gas Exploration Implications | ||
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Important Paper:
J. Marvin Herndon,
New
concept
on
the
origin
of
petroleum
and
natural
gas
deposits. Journal
of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 2016,
DOI
10.1007/s13202-016-0271-5
(click here for pdf) Important Paper: J. Marvin Herndon, Impact of recent discoveries on petroleum and natural gas exploration: Emphasis on India. Current Science, 2010, 98, 772-779. (click here for pdf) |
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Origin of Mountains and Primary Initiation of Submarine Canyons | ||
![]() ![]() WebPage: Origin of Mountains and Primary Initiation of Submarine Canyons (click here). Important Paper: Origin of mountains and primary initiation of submarine canyons: the consequences of Earth's early formation as a Jupiter-like gas giant. (click here for pdf) Current Science, 2012, 102, 1370-1372. |
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Fictitious Supercontinent Cycles | ||
Descriptions of phenomena, events, or processes made on the basis of problematic paradigms can be unreasonably complex (e.g. epicycles) or simply wrong (e.g. ultraviolet catastrophe). Supercontinent cycles, also called Wilson cycles, are, J. Marvin Herndon submits, artificial constructs, like epicycles. Herndon provides the basis for that assertion and describes published considerations from a fundamentally different, new, indivisible geoscience paradigm which obviate the necessity for assuming supercontinent cycles. WebPage: Fictitious Supercontinent Cycles (click here) Important Paper: J. Marvin Herndon, Fictitious Supercontinent Cycles (click here for pdf) |
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New Indivisible Planetary Science Paradigm | ||
Important Paper: J. Marvin Herndon, New Indivisible Planetary Science Paradigm (click here for pdf) Current Science, 2013, 105(4), 450-460. WebPage: New Indivisible Planetary Science Paradigm Summary (click here) Abstract: I present here a new, indivisible planetary science paradigm, a wholly self-consistent vision of the nature of matter in the Solar System, and dynamics and energy sources of planets. Massive-core planets formed by condensing and raining-out from within giant gaseous protoplanets at high pressures and high temperatures. Earth’s complete condensation included a ~300 Earth-mass gigantic gas/ice shell that compressed the rocky kernel to about 66% of Earth’s present diameter. T-Tauri eruptions stripped the gases away from the inner planets and stripped a portion of Mercury’s incompletely condensed protoplanet, and transported it to the region between Mars and Jupiter where it fused with in-falling oxidized condensate from the outer regions of the Solar System and formed the parent matter of ordinary chondrite meteorites, the main-Belt asteroids, and veneer for the inner planets, especially Mars. In response to decompression-driven planetary volume increases, cracks form to increase surface area and mountain ranges characterized by folding form to accommodate changes in curvature. The differences between the inner planets are primarily the consequence of different degrees of protoplanetary compression. The internal composition of Mercury is calculated by analogy with Earth. The rationale is provided for Mars potentially having a greater subsurface water reservoir capacity than before realized. |
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Major Developments Related to the Solar System | ||
Herndon followed by demonstrating the feasibility and providing evidence for a natural nuclear fission reactor, the georeactor, at the center of Earth as the energy source and production mechanism for the geomagnetic field: Natural nuclear fission reactors may provide reasonable explanations for other "NASA mysteries" including: (1) Our Moon having a soft or molten core; (2) Tiny planet Mercury having a magnetic field; (3) Mars displaying evidence of an ancient magnetic field; (4) Our Moon displaying evidence of an ancient magnetic field; (5) Jupiter’s moon Ganymede having an internally generated magnetic field; (6) Jupiter's moon Io being extremely volcanic; (7) Saturn’s moon Enceladus showing evidence of internal heating; and, (8) Evidence of internal heat generation in Pluto’s moon Charon: WebPage: Nature of Planetary Matter (click here) Important Paper: Herndon, J. M., Nature of planetary matter and magnetic field generation in the Solar System. (click here for pdf) Current Science, 2009, 96, 1033-1039. J. Marvin Herndon discovered a fundamental relationship using published whole-rock chondrite molar Mg/Fe and Si/Fe ratios. This relationship admits the possibility that ordinary chondrite meteorites are derived from two components: one is a relatively undifferentiated, primitive component, oxidized like the CI or C1 carbonaceous chondrites; the other is a somewhat differentiated, planetary component, with oxidation state like the highly reduced enstatite chondrites. Such a picture would seem to explain for the ordinary chondrites, their major element compositions, their intermediate states of oxidation, and their ubiquitous deficiencies of refractory siderophile elements. J. Marvin Herndon suggested that the planetary component of ordinary chondrite formation consists of planet Mercury’s missing complement of elements. WebPage: Origin of Ordinary Chondrite Meteorites (click here) Important Paper: Herndon, J. M., Discovery of fundamental mass ratio relationships of whole-rock chondritic major elements: Implications on ordinary chondrite formation and on planet Mercury's composition. (Click here for pdf) Current Science, 2007, 93, 394-399. |
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MESSENGER Mercury Hollows Explained by Hydrogen Geysers | ||
WebPage: Mercury Hollows Explained by Hydrogen Geysers (click here) Important Paper: Herndon, J. M., Hydrogen geysers: explanation for observed evidence of geologically recent volatile-related activity on Mercury's surface. (click here for pdf) Current Science, 2012, 103, 361-362.
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Major Developments Related to Stars, Galaxies, and Exo-planets | ||
WebPage: Thermonuclear Ignition of Stars and the Nature of Dark Matter (click here) Important Paper: Herndon, J. M., Planetary and protostellar nuclear fission: Implications for planetary change, stellar ignition and dark matter. (click here for pdf) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1994, A455, 453-461. YouTube Video: Lighting the Stars (click here) Download .wmv video file (click here)
WebPage: J. Marvin Herndon's Structure of Galaxies (click here) YouTube Video: The Origin of Galaxies (click here) Download .wmv video file (click here) Important Paper: Herndon, J. M., New concept for internal heat production in hot Jupiter exo-planets, thermonuclear ignition of dark galaxies, and the basis for galactic luminous star distributions. (click here for pdf) Current Science, 2009, 96, 1453-1456. |
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Methodologies for Making Scientific Discoveries | ||
![]() WebPage: Time-Travel for Science Revolutions (click here) is a brief synopsis of Herndon's work describing one methodology for making revolutionary scientific discoveries which differs from the frequently discussed variations of the scientific method. Important Paper: Herndon, J. M., Inseparability of Science History and Discovery (click here for pdf) History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 2010, 1, 25-40. |
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Science Suppression and Misrepresentation | ||
Science
is about truth, not deception, not to the scientific community and not
to the general public. Science provides a
truth-standard, securely anchored in the properties of matter. J. Marvin Herndon reveals the causes
and extent of science corruption, suppression and misrepresentation and he proffers
practical solutions. Important Article: Corruption of Science in America (click here for pdf) WebPage: Science Suppression and Misrepresentation (click here) |
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Special for Teachers and Lovers of Knowledge | ||
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American Education Failure: The Cause and Cure (click here) + Celebrities Remember Their Favorite Teachers (click here) + Foreword by J. Marvin Herndon to Mark McMenamin’s Translation from German of Paläogeographie by Franz Kossmat (1924) (click here)+ Teaching Students to Question Earth-Core Convection (click here) + Teaching Earth Dynamics: What’s Wrong with Plate Tectonics Theory? (click here) + Teaching About Nature’s Nuclear Reactors (click here) + Current Biography Profile of J. Marvin Herndon (click here) + Discover Magazine article "Nuclear Planet" and Consequences (click here) Discover article (click here) + Galileo Quotes from The Assayer on Human Nature (click here) Download a copy of his 1933 book Vom wachsenden Erdball (click here).+ Chapter 20 of the book Mars: Perspective Energy and Material Resources by J. Marvin Herndon "Perspectives on the Utilization of Martian Iron and Carbon Dioxide" (click here) |
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YouTube Video: Origin of Earth's Magnetic Field (click here) This video is best "watched in high quality" as it contains an experimental demonstration of why long-term convection, and hence dynamo-action, in the fluid core is impossible. Download .mp4 video file (click here). YouTube Video: Lighting the Stars (click here) The nature of star ignition has been misunderstood since a mistake was made in the 1930s and subsequently built upon J. Marvin Herndon reveals the mistake and describes the rationale for his correcting it. (click here for notes and references) Download .wmv video file (click here). YouTube Video: The Origin of Galaxies (click here) Observations arranged into a logical order reveal causal relationships leading to a new fundamental understanding of the origin of galaxies. Download .wmv video file (click here). YouTube Video: No Mantle Convection!!! (click here) Plate tectonics theory is incomplete, providing no energy source for geodynamics and depends critically on the assumption of mantle convection. This video shows the reason that mantle convection is physically impossible. Download .wmv video file (click here). YouTube Video: 21st Century Earth Dynamics Part 1 (click here) and 21st Century Earth Dynamics Part 2 (click here) This is a two-part video about a complete, new geodynamic theory, recently published in the scientific literature, called Whole-Earth Decompression Dynamics, that unifies and supersedes plate tectonics and Earth expansion theories. Download .wmv video file Part 1 (click here). Download .wmv video file Part 2 (click here). YouTube Video: Put Teachers on Top (click here) Download .wmv video file (click here). |
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Historical Background | ||
+ Richard D. Oldham's Discovery of the Earth's Core (click here) + Inge Lehmann's Discovery of the Earth's Inner Core (click here) + Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann's Discovery of Nuclear Fission and Consequences (click here) + Paul K. Kuroda's Feasibility of Natural Nuclear Reactors in Uranium Mines (click here) + French Discovery of Fossil Natural Reactors at Oklo, Republic of Gabon (click here) |
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The scientific foundations described on this website have been published in the following, premiere scientific journals: Naturwissenschaften, Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Current Science, and Earth, Moon, and Planets. When an important new contradiction to prevailing ideas arises in the realm of ethical science, the new concept should be discussed and debated, subjected, if possible, to experimental and/or theoretical verification, refuted if wrong, or otherwise acknowledged. Scientists throughout the world are invited to ascribe to that standard. Secure in the belief that science and truth should go hand in hand with the freedom to learn about and to understand the world in which we live, this web site is dedicated to the dissemination of information to all people: to scientists and, especially, to interested persons everywhere. |
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