mirrored file at http://SaturnianCosmology.Org/ 
For complete access to all the files of this collection
	see http://SaturnianCosmology.org/search.php 
==========================================================
Grazian Archive:  [1] HOME  [2] INDEX 

Alfred de Grazia:

Quantavolution and Solaria Binaria

Lecture delivered on October 19, 2001 at University of Bergamo, Italy.
Conference chaired and organized by Prof. Emilio Spedicato.
_________________________________________________________________

I am here to pay homage to an old friend already 22 years dead,
Immanuel Velikovsky. His books of fifty years ago, however, are very
much alive.

I also see this conference as an occasion to pay my respects to
Professor Emilio Spedicato, who has given a unique impetus to the
quantavolution movement at the University of Bergamo and around the
world.

And third, I am privileged here to tell something about my own work.

If you will permit me now, I would like to define the term
Quantavolution. Afterwards, I can proceed to introduce the theory of
Solaria Binaria.

Quantavolution refers to great changes of both inorganic and organic
realms of existence happening swiftly, powerfully, and on a large
scale.

The means of quantavolution are largely electromagnetic. That is, the
theory of dynamic physics may eventually treat most or all natural
energy operations as originating in electricity. Gravitation has lost
prestige as an all-explainer in physics and astronomy, and might
conceivably be dispensed with in quantavolution theory.

Quantavolutions are catastrophes, but they are constructive as well as
destructive. For example, if you prefer mammals to dinosaurs as your
pets, then possibly you would regard the comets or meteoroids that
struck the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous and put an end to the
dinosaurs as a stroke of good luck, a quantavolution that was on the
whole favorable from a mammalian and human point of view.

When a quantavolution occurs, the phenomena of air, water, earth, and
existence change sharply. Logically, then, every science is concerned
with quantavolutions, past and future. Every sphere of being is
affected, so we can say Q is holospheric.

Thousands of plant and animal species extincted with the famous
dinosaurs. The stratigraphy of much of the Earth changed. The
atmosphere changed. The motions of the Earth changed, how much we do
not yet know. As a matter of fact, we know very little yet about the
events and changes that took place when the dinosaurs felt the
disastrous effects of falling bodies from outer space. But name me a
field of learning, and I will give you a suitable subject for a
dissertation in that field on a problem of quantavolution.

Linguistics, for another instance, finds every language loaded with
ancient words of disaster and electricity and punishing gods. A study
by Hugh Crosthwaite tells us that about 15% of the words of Hebrew,
Latin, Greek, and Egyptian are connected in some fashion with
electricity.

Quantavolution is not a theory that I can express mathematically. It
is a cognitive theory, or perhaps only a heuristic theory. I can
writeit in signs, as if it were a formula. This might help to remember
it.

Q = C(SISa)x × 3(a...n) where

Q = quantavolution
X = exponential rising and subsiding
C = change x 3 = multiplied by the sum of
S = suddenness a..n = all phenomena affected
I = intensity
Sa = scope
Thus: If a meteor (or comet) strikes at "Chassenon, France" and is 1.5
km in diameter, striking with a speed of 20 k/second, coming from the
Northwest, it will burst open, within seconds, a great crater, and
shoot up a towering column of fire, gas, and debris, a terrestrial
tsunami whose swells will become arcs of hills, and all forms of rocks
for 20 km around will be metamorphosed, while practically all life
forms will be extincted up to a radius of 500 km, and most habitats
around the world and the atmosphere everywhere will be affected to
different degrees but markedly.

A new world will be soon established over the vast area , and when
humans come to inhabit it a long time afterwards, they will not
recognize its nature and learned scientists will call it a volcano,
until they finally realize that the strange rocks providing the
natives with beautiful stone for building are not sedimentary, and
then finally, 17 years after a book called Worlds in Collision raises
a hullabaloo, a leading French scientist will visit colleagues in
Germany at the Ries crater; he will change his mind, and initiate 27
years of research and persuading other scientists that they are
dealing with an exoterrestrial meteoritic phenomenon . In 1994 a
conference called specially for the purpose, gives its blessing to the
site, and in 1995 a geological map of the area is produced.

The earlier tale of the discovery of the catastrophic origin of the
horrendous scablands of Washington State by Professor J. H. Bretz, and
the acceptance of his findings, took several decades.

Similar stories can be told about an increasing number of places
around the world. Old volcanoes are turning into meteor craters. I
wonder whether Italian geologists could be wrong in regarding Lago di
Bolsena as a typical extinct volcano crater. The Roman encyclopedist
Pliny said that it was the spot where a Jovian thunderbolt had
destroyed the Etruscan city of Volsinium.

Today I can introduce these matters without being contradicted. Fifty
years ago, if I said them to a respectable audience, I would be
regarded as a strange character who belongs to the fringes of outer
space.

Immanuel Velikovsky had much to do with this change of paradigm, as
you will be hearing today and tomorrow. He had much to do with my
partial shift in mid-life from a social historian to a universal
natural historian, or, maybe I should say, a cosmologist.

I would add, however, that the new paradigm of quantavolution was
bound to happen, with or without my old friend Velikovsky. All history
is that way, is it not? -- political history, social history, the
history of science? History can be pushed forward a bit or dragged
back, but it cannot be cut out of whole cloth by any man or woman. It
should not surprise anyone, then, that predecessors can be found for
most of the elements of Velikovsky's work, and these forerunners keep
turning up from odd quarters.

When I reoriented my intellectual telescope, I could perceive what
appeared to me new large regions for investigation. I might even see
in old facts a remarkably new history of the solar system. And so,
around 1975, I invented the theory of Solaria Binaria.

I began to imagine the history of the solar system as the career of a
speeding, electrically charged star that destabilized when it entered
upon a region of space that supported a markedly different electric
charge. The Sun then underwent a nova explosion and fragmented into a
double star that evolved into our present planetary configuration.

The Sun, I imagined, threw off a large fragment, about 7% of its mass.
It bound the fragment to itself at a proper distance, however, that
is, a distance that would enable it to maintain a powerful electric
arc and an associated magnetic field. What can be done in a child's
playroom may be true of the cosmos. A magnetic field of dust and
debris circled around the electric current and was kicked back into
the larger bodies or formed smaller bodies, the dense planets.

The area of magnetic forces was enormous and I called it the magnetic
tube, which constituted what I called a plenum of charges, gases, and
rock. You can see how this plenum of electrified plasma would provide
millions of times the area for experimentation with forming life than
might be found on the little planet Earth.

The plenum provided 60 million times the volume of the Earth's oceans
and atmosphere today, as a breeding ground for living organisms.

The electrical energy liberated by the central arc into the plenum
would also have been exponentially greater than the electrical energy
available today for experimentation in the forming of living
organisms. It was in this plenum that organic forms might originate
and develop before they landed on Earth, or before they were domiciled
on the planets as the plenum diminished in size.

The time factor must also be examined. Here just the nova explosion
itself, in a few months before creating the system, would have
liberated a creative energy equivalent to two billion years of Earth
history. All in all, Solaria Binaria would appear to be millions of
time more effective in producing the living species of today than
mainstream science theory would provide.

Still, my collaborator Earl Milton and I were dissatisfied, because
the probabilities of life originating in any conceivable volume of
plasma are far beyond the opportunities afforded even by the Solaria
Binaria system. Therefore we had to become cell engineers and
reconstruct how electrical energy working with various chemical
elements could build an organism that could ingest and excrete,
meanwhile reproducing. Certain accidents that occur often in these
processes turn out to be helpful and are retained. I think that our
scenario is convincing, even if too elaborate to detail here.

Too, there is an element of teleology in our theory. I conjectured
that any gene that mutates for any reason signals all the genes of the
organism to assist in living with its change. If they can cooperate,
the other genes do so, and an organic change takes place and is
included in successful reproductions. Perhaps because I felt
Napoleonic at this moment, I called this gene that gives the
acceptable signal to all the other genes, the 'leader gene,' and
compared the gene with the common soldier of the armies of Napoleon:
"Every soldier," he is reported to have said, "carries the baton of a
Marshal in his knapsack."

The binary partner of the Sun I called Uranus after the nebulous first
Great God of the Greeks. When Uranus developed an instability and lost
mass, its greater remaining part could be called by us 'Saturn,' and
when a nova exploded Saturn, the larger part was identified by me as
what would be called 'Jupiter.' Distances between the dense and
gaseous plants and the Sun stretched out as the electric current
diminished, and at the same time the planets moved ever closer to the
arterial center of the great electric current, until they were
agreeably on the same plane, called now the plane of the ecliptic, and
there the motion that they had in circling around the current in the
magnetic tube turned into the motion that we know as their rotation.

I had already placed the dinosaur disaster and other quantavolutions
of the solar system into the memory of early mankind, so I could not
contradict myself by using the long conventional time scales. And how
could I extract the Moon from the Pacific Basin in the memorial time
of human beings? It would take years before I could settle upon an age
to give to for Solaria Binaria. Then, with my comrade Earl Milton
aiding and abetting me, the question was asked: how much time would be
reasonably enough to do everything that had to be done with the sun
and its descendants down to today, employing the huge energy of
electricity, incomparably more forceful than the puny strength of the
force of gravitation. We chose the round figure of a million years for
the history of the solar system, from when the Sun went nova down to
the present time.

In the 18 years since SB was published, evidence supporting its
principal theses has expanded greatly.

In regard to Quantavolution itself, I would guess that the number and
proportion of scholars and scientists who accept in large part the
formulation of Q=c(SIS)x 3(A...n) has increased from 10,000 to
6,000,000 or 600 times, and represents 60% of the 10,000,000 scholars
and scientists of the world. This has happened despite the fact that
they do not even know the word Quantavolution.

In view of this increased open-mindedness (or is it gullibility?) for
novel theories, the literature of Q has increased greatly. When I
first entered the field, Velikovsky's work and a few other items of
the period from 1927 to 1963 constituted the relevant bibliography.
For the rest of one's references, one had to go to collections of
ancient myths and to early Greek and Roman philosophers, to holy
scriptures of the Jews, Persians, Hindus, and to rare writers of the
last thousand years. The most important were Whinston, a little-read
disciple of Newton; Boulanger a Frenchman of the Enlightenment a
century later, whose books were called to Velikovsky's attention by
Livio Stecchini, an unrecognized great historian of science whose
works have yet to be published, although he has been dead for decades;
to a brief monograph by Xavier Kugler on the erratic behavior of Venus
and the weird language of the Sibylline oracles, which came late to
Velikovsky, and was also introduced to us by Stecchini; to the work of
Melvin Cook, which also came late to Velikovsky; to the Hoerbigger
School, that Velikovsky avoided because he felt Hoerbigger was a
proto-Nazi; and to Claude Shaeffer, who worked with the French
resistance and wrote his books on comparative archaeology in London
during World War II. My bibliography of 1981 in Chaos and Creation may
have been the largest; I put into it any item that gave a glimmer of
hope to my theories.

There has been also an expansion of evidence in support of specific
theses of Solaria Binaria.

That there are many binary and other multiple-partner systems is now
universally admitted. There may be millions of them in our single
galaxy. These are recent discoveries. Many stellar binaries have
planets that move in some relationship to the principal partners.

Many craters exist everywhere in the solar system. Even asteroids can
carry craters.

Electrical effects are widely remarked. A web site called Intersect
and a Web magazine called Thoth, both under the lively direction of
astronomer Amy Acheson, pursues the issue of the electrification of
the universe.

The development of plasma physics has speeded up and has found many
applications to cosmology. I might note that, in 1963, I wrote of
Velikovsky: "He found space a vacuum and has made it a plenum." When I
conjectured the plenum of Solaria Binaria, I could have used the new
language of plasma physics. Instead, Milton and I used other words for
essentially the same phenomena. The filling of space by
astrophysicists has proceeded until some 99% of the matter in the
universe can be characterized as plasma. It is a forceful confirmation
of the tube, sac, and plenum proposed in Solaria.

The threatening habits of asteroids and comets and their frequently
unexpected behavior reminds one of our reconstruction of the many
"erratic" movements of the solar system bodies in history.

The bewildering movements of magnetic fields of the earth as a whole
and in its parts over history, a mystifying subject, can be simplified
and better understood if the short-term reconstruction provided in
Solaria Binaria is pursued.

A proliferation of splendid photographs of space objects of all kinds
and of all regions of the Earth has given us countless occasions to
confirm the pages of Solaria Binaria, none of substance to deny it, so
far.

The collection of myths applicable to Q theory has been expanded, much
of it represented in the work of David Talbott in regard to the
planet-god Saturn.

The genome projects that have decoded thousands of genes have lent
some support to the 'leader gene' theory I proposed in Homo Schizo and
again with Milton in Solaria Binaria. There may well be a system
within the genome for following the leader when a mutation is
proposed.

Discoveries of many correct fits between widely separated continental
masses have continued while the theory of a land-covered Earth until
the blow-out of the Pacific Basin have in no way been affected
adversely.

Discovery of relationships among all the languages circling the basin
from which the Moon emerged and correlating with the Ring of Fire of
earthquakes and volcanism indicate that a community of language
families existed before lunagenesis and/or that a recent event emptied
the vast region of people and then quickly allowed their repopulation
thereafter by related peoples.

The willingness to advocate and accept theories of the origin of life
forms in the plenum of solaria binaria has grown with the increase in
similar theories of the origin of life in space and atmospheres or its
transit from comets from other worlds.

The critical transactions between Jupiter and its system of moons were
expected under the Solaria Binaria model, including the explosion of
large cometary fragments on Jupiter a few years ago.

The rapidity of stratification of large masses and differently
composed materials after a quantavolution or even isolated natural
disasters, so as to mimic old age, is a deserving topic in search of
compilers employing statistical methods.

The radical reconstruction of human history from the origin of mankind
to the present epoch has held its own in general, but is awaiting a
rigorous editing in the view of writings by Gunnar Heinsohn, Peter
James and other critics. The work of Mandelkehr and others evidencing
a quantavolution of worldwide proportions around 2250 B.C. tends to
support the events attending the so-called Mercury Period of Solaria
Binaria.

Debate over the age of the Earth and the accidents befalling it has
expanded. A far-reaching controversy deals with the response of
radioactive elements to electromagnetic currents; laboratory
experiments are especially needed. To the trenchant critiques of
Melvin Cook against the constancy of radioactive decay measures are
now added a new type of criticism, based on the idea that the speed of
light is not constant and therefore atomic time is not constant, and
therefore the radioactive decay measures that are correlated to the
atomic clocks cannot be valid. A billion years can become a thousand
years if the speed of light has changed, but is used in a measuring
instrument as if it were a constant. The astronomer Barry Sutterfield
has been pressing the case for this theory. I would not wish to commit
myself on it yet.

To continue my listing, evidence of catastrophically-induced diffusion
of cultures and artifacts has piled up.

Outside the solar system, in numerous instances, bodies composing
multiple star systems have been observed to shift erratically their
positions. Examples are now available of electromagnetic arcs between
large bodies that resemble the electric axis or arc that Solaria
Binaria once possessed.

There have been convincing comparisons of the solar wind with a
drastically weakening and dying electrical connection between the sun
and its planets along the ecliptic.

Barbieri and others have confirmed that drastic shifts in the axis and
orientation as well as rotational and orbiting patterns of the earth
and other planets are far from impossible, therefore permitting the
movements of planets proposed in Solaria Binaria.

The accretion of evidence of lunagenesis out of the Pacific Basin now
includes studies of the intense heat, life forms, and topography of
the abyssal floors, which can be interpreted to indicate youth.

So there is where we stand today. And if any of you are inclined to
join the battles of science, I can assure you that many places for
volunteers exist, and that you will, like every other soldier of
science, carry a marshal's baton in your knapsack.

Grazian Archive:  [3] HOME  [4] INDEX 

References

1. file://localhost/www/sat/index.htm
2. file://localhost/www/sat/index_2000.htm
3. file://localhost/www/sat/index.htm
4. file://localhost/www/sat/index_2000.htm