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5.0 out of 5 stars *A "must-read" book on a massive cosmic event*,
December 15, 2006
By 	Wm. Topping, Ph.D. [interesting!!]

*This review is from: The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age
Comet Changed the Course of World Culture (Paperback)*
"The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes" is a must-read for any thinking and
aware person. First, the evidence amassed is overwhelming that an ET/ELE
(extraterrestrial/extinction level event) took place at some point in
the past, culminating in a massive event at about 12,500 yrs BP. The
authors of the book, most specifically Allen West and Richard Firestone,
and I all totally agree something happened that was cosmic,
catastrophic, and sudden. Firestone and I do not disagree, but rather
are dealing with different levels of causality. For instance, whatever
happened started with the Big Bang. Much later in time, there is no
question but that supernovae did take place relatively near our solar
system and those supernovae, or even one, must have had some effect on
our sun ranging from ~ 0.1% to X%. I am focused on the immediate
causation for what happened at about 12,500 yrs BP, and personally I see
no way out of concluding that that event involved a massive and lethal
neutron event, as you can read on a paper entitled, "Response to
Comments" on Bob Kobres website, which makes the evidence clear.

Considering all of the available evidence that involves a massive
neutron event, inverse radiocarbon resets from 14C being produced in
situ, and the worldwide pattern as noted in the piece above, my own
conviction is that only a giant solar flare could have done or caused
all that happened, and it was over in one very, very bad day. If readers
take some time to investigate giant solar flares, they will find the
necessary conditions: antimatter to obliterate much of the atmosphere,
entrapped neutrons in the flare's magnetic field, and a relatively short
time span of less than one earth day which fits the evidence completely.

There also is a tantalizing clue in the book that indicates "they saw it
coming" and got out. I believe my own view, which is that Paleo-Indians
travelled by boat (probably skin), now is the prevailing view which
would explain the lack of any human remains at all, particularly teeth.
About the only thing they could have seen coming was a giant flare
manifested by greatly increased solar activity. Flares arrive at varying
speeds.

Radiocarbon dating does work, but the evidence at hand strongly suggests
(if not proves) that before ~ 12,500 yrs BP nobody can say much of
anything at all about "real dates" because of the production of 14C in a
younger direction. This raises the interesting possibility, suggested as
far back as the 1960's, that Paleo-Indian actually is a Mousterian
(European) tradition. Mousterian toolkits remained virtually unchanged
for about 200,000 years (depending on which sources indicate what dates)
while later prehistoric toolkits persisted (in terms of style) for
perhaps ~ 500 yrs. Most importantly, again as noted in the web-published
piece, if the dates for Lewisville are as old as the most recent
radiocarbon dates suggest, and lignite was NOT in the firepits), then as
two world-class scholars have concluded that the only difference between
European Solutrean and American Paleo-Indian are identical with the one
exception of "fluting" not present in Solutrean, then the most logical
conclusion is that European Solutrean derived from a longstanding
American Mousterian tradition when those American Mousterians (and I am
NOT saying Neanderthals) crossed back across the North Atlantic. In that
event, which I believe to be the case, we (or I) are/am ruffling
feathers but so be it.

One thing is certain about this book. The evidence at hand did not come
from dedicated work and enormous salaries and expenditures at
laboratories and universities, but rather from a dedicated and somewhat
obsessive small group of people both professional and avocational who
spent many years and very much of their own monies at this project. In
and of itself, this is a "must read" for anyone in the world who wants
to know how much, if not most scientific discovery, actually comes about.

William H. Topping, Ph.D.
December 15, 2006