Undeadskeptic on Jun 6 2009, 11:37 AM, said:
Backwards Earth Time theory
A strange theory I have heard a lot recently is that Earth exists within a time zone that goes forward for half it's life, then reverts to it's original state. I'm unsure as to what the science is behind this, but Earth is supposedly an amalgamation of all life forms and elements that exist in sync as a whole organsim. This is the Gaia theory, the theory that Earth is alive.
According to an offshoot of this theory, the Earth, just like any living creature will slowly break down over time. Imagine an old lady, getting wrinklier and wrinklier, until she's as defensless and incapable as her baby-self. So the Earth will do this too, slowly disconnecting it's ecological links with the species. Intelligent life was the latest to develop, so will disintergrate fastest. Single Celled organsims develop0ed in the primordial ooze before all else and will disappear last.
As Earth returns to it's child state it's links with the species will diminish, forcing them to adapt accordingly. This (Somehow) means that Dinosaurs will emerge again.
I have a friend who is simply obsessed with this idea. She can stick on the subject for hours if you had nothing better to do. She says that the animals and lifeforms we find on earth are basically sex organs, and that Earth is asexual. When life is in space that will be like a seed being sowed, and life will sprout elswhere in the universe. Due to the relatively early era of space travel that we are in currently, she estimates that humans causing life on other planets is a good few centuries away, so the backwards aging of Earth will not occur for a while yet.
However I have also heard a lesser theory, supported, it seems, only be the most negative pessimists, that we developed Space travel too late and that Earth is already dying. The back-growing will occur in 2012 according to them.
Personally I find this all to be BS.
Earth is a rock, floating through space. It's not some old guy sitting on a rocking chair, slowly losing his eyesight.
The only way we should view Earth is through how this particular star system works.
The natural dying of the sol star will enevitably happen in the process of this happening the star eats up it's helium supply and becomes a red giant and earth will be burnt up because we are in a zone where we will be too close when the reaction occurs.
Dinosaurs exsisted because the gravity was different then we had two moons when one moon was drawn to the Earth by gravity a new species emerged and dinosaurs ceased to exisit.
Between the time of now and the red giant occurances Earth may be struck by an asteroid that happens to skim past jupitor this is undetermined but a definate possiblity, and Earth may not make it to the Red Giant stage.
But when it comes down to De-evolution that it purely up to the will of the species alone...It was the will to survive that drew Aqautic creatures from the ocean to become mamillian...the same goes now, we will either be stagnated and remain the same or we will evolve due to the will to be something more than we are.
And we may also revert due to unforseen cicumstances...but the Earth and the Sol system will carry on doing what it usually does according to nature.
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I really hope thats not the case....I think perhaps I'll just work hard save my money build my star ship and get of this planet before things go that far South
