Another Expert Agrees With Dark Comet Theory

Most of the 2012 movie was based on the ideas of Patrick Geryl, possibly via my site. But the idea of neutrinos from the Sun being the culprit, I have no idea where the screenwriters got that from. It was such a ridiculous idea that Scientific American chimed in:

The premise: the sun’s 11-year activity cycle reaches a peak in 2012… For some reason, the neutrinos from the sun start behaving differently: they begin interacting frequently with matter, rather than largely passing through it harmlessly. The filmmakers could have easily invented entirely new particles for the job—call them bambinos, say—but perhaps that’s too silly.

In the movie, the “neutrinos” heat up Earth’s inner core, making it boil. That in turn destabilizes the overlying layers (outer core and mantle), making the crust buckle, rise and shift by thousands of kilometers.

Way back in 2009 scientists all knew that neutrinos pretty much did not interact with particles on Earth. But last year research into radioactive decay rates suggested that neutrinos might not be so harmless after all, and the numbers that zip through our planet are determined by solar cycles.

Laboratories around the globe have confirmed that the rate of radioactive decay—once thought to be a constant and a bedrock of science—is no longer a constant. Something being emitted from the sun is interacting with matter in strange and unknown ways with the startling potential to dramatically change the nature of the very Earth itself.

…Researchers have correlated the anomalies in the decay rate to a 33-day period. That time frame matches the 33-day rotation of the solar core. Such a match strains credulity as being a mere coincidence.

Since the sun’s core is known to blast out continuous streams of particles called neutrinos, some scientists are attempting to find evidence that neutrinos are the culprits behind the mutation of matter.

There’s a problem with that hypothesis, however, as neutrinos are like ghost particles. They’re extremely difficult to detect. Normally, neutrinos pass through the Earth without any interaction at all. To a neutrino, it’s as if the Earth doesn’t exist.

Other than discovering a previously unknown property of neutrinos, or finding a new particle altogether, the possibility exists that no particle is behind the changes recorded in the radioactive decay rates. What could be causing the phenomenon is a previously unknown force.

The quoted article is written by a Belgian conspiracy theorist, but he has the facts correct, and links to proper sources. At the other end of sensationalism the good folk at 2012Hoax.org have a thread discussing it as well.

Ultimately this news reinforces the need to prepare for the worst, and to ignore scientists who claim that the Sun won’t wreak havoc upon us. This new particle, or new interaction with neutrinos, could be something that arrives en masse every so often. We really don’t know.

(Of course I am now wondering if rates of genetic mutation are in sync with the cycles of the Sun…)