Was this Atlantis ?

Wolter Smit

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Introduction

Possible locations

Pole shift

Biblic Flooding

Predeluvian climat

Continent changes

Timing, When

How, Where

Size, population

Cayce readings

Plato, Timaeus

Plato, Critias

Flood Myths

How did it happen, where everything it go?

Required modification of rotation.
Required object size versus speed.
Required place of impact.
Possible length of a day.
Place of impact, Bermuda Triangle?.
Impact crater at Charleston coast.
Magma movement towards the South.
The sinking of Atlantis, according Otto.H.Muck.
What could have happened.
North Atlantic ocean floor, before and after.

Required modification of rotation speed and angle.

As anyone knows any object in space will not modify its rotation speed and angle, nor direction of movement unless an mecanical action is taken on it, this is valid for satelites and this is valid for the Earth too. One of this mecanical actions can be for the Earth, for exemple the gravity forces of the Sun and the Moon. Those forces do indeed modify the rotation angle such that the poles rotate in a 26'000 year cycle. The position modification we are looking for is however a brutal change, which cannot be explained by influence this gravity forces. Therefore we must look for a bratual mecanical action from the outside, like massive object crashing into it with a rather high speed. And as expained in the section Have the poles always been in the actual place ?, we can indeed shift a pole by just modifying the rotation speed and angle of the Earth, than even when this does not physically shifts the poles, it does shift the center of rotation axis which produces the result.

A secondary effect of such a rotation speed change is that the length of a day changes; and such that a faster rotation will make the days shorter, and in the reverse a slowdown of the rotation speed will cause the days to be longer.

The table below shows an addition and a substraction of about 135 Ms/sec to make the required pole shift fo around 17°

The impact slows down the rotation speed of the Earth and is therefore in opposite direction to the Earth rotation.

Black:    New speed = 462 Ms/sec (Actual)
Blue:     Old speed    = 481 Ms/sec
Red:      Subtracted = 135 Ms/sec
A day was: +/- 23 Hrs, and we had about 380 days in a year.

The impact accelerates the rotation speed of the Earth and is therefore in the same direction as the Earth rotation.

Blue:    Old speed = 442 Ms/sec
Black:  New speed = 462 Ms/sec (Actual)
Red:     Added        = 135 Ms/sec
A day was: +/- 25 Hrs, and we had about 349 days in a year.

Required object size versus speed.

The above tables show that in both cases we need a total rotation speed change of about 20 Ms/sec, in either case of acceleration or in slowdown of the rotation speed. The table below shows the required object size to de able to cause such a speed change. However with a speed of 10 Km/sec or the objects are getting to big, and unlikely to have existed, and on the other hand an object with a speed of over 42 Km/sec will quit for ever our solar system. We can therefore consider this two as limits.

Table of speed differences and object sizes in order to obtain the required results.
Speed in Km / sec	Size in Km	Estimation of an celestial object hurting the Earth, considering that the density of the object is around 8 Kg /dm³and that 80% of the kinetic energy will be converted into rotation motion of the Earth thereby considering that 50% of the total mass is accelerated by 66% of the additional rotation speed and the density of the Earth is 5 Kg /dm³. The remaining energy will be converted to heat and is transferred to the environment (probably the ocean water). The results of this table has been used to search for a crater, then the size of a crater is about 10 times the size of the object.
10	105,14
20	66,24
30	50,55
40	41,73
50	35,96
60	31,84
70	28,73
80	26,29

The colored cells show my most favorite selection, then the others are looking to me such that either the object is to big in size or that the object is to fast in speed (as of 42 Km / sec objects leave the solar system for ever!), as well that we do have a crater at the Charleston coast of about 10 times the size, being an oval of about 500 Kms by about 700 Kms, matching the size of the selected objects. The object looks to have crashed into the Earth in a West to East angle and when looking at the shape of the oval crater, we could think that the impact could have taken place whith an angle ranging from 40 to 60 degrees with the Earth surface.

Note: The total amount of energy needed to achieve this is about 3 X 10²⁰ Kgm / sec, from which 6 X 10¹⁹Kgm / sec has been converted into heat during the impact and the remaining 24 X 10¹⁹Kgm / sec is converted into additional rotation speed of the Earth, modifying by doing so the rotation axis and speed of our Earth, and thereby shifting indirectly the poles, and this does also modify the length of day.

Note: 1 Mega-Ton of TnT ('A' Bomb) is about 43 X 10¹⁰ Kgm /sec leaving us with an total impact power of 69 X 10⁷ Mega-Tons. ( In other words, about 13'800'000 bikini 50 Mega-Ton 'H' bombs )

Required place of impact.

The change must be such that the center of the Earth rotation shifts from a place from somewhere on Greenland towards the actual position.

The impact is required to have taken place eccentric to the center of the Earth, and such that the point of the ancient North Pole was subject to an acceleration such that the rotation axis of the Earth shifts to the Actual North Pole.

The most favorable place would be at 2/3 in the X axis, 2/3 in the Y axis and 2/3 in the Z axis, either in the same direction as the Earth rotation where it makes the days shorter or in opposite direction where it makes the days longer.

An impact in opposite direction would have changed the day-length from 23 hours to 24 hours, and an impact in the same direction would have changed the day-length from 25 hours to 24 hours.

Remember, then when a day is longer we will have lesser days in a year, and when a day is shorter we will have more days in a year, this supposing that the total length of the Earth orbit around the Sun does not change in a significant way. (20 Meter / sec does not make much difference on 30'000 Meter / sec orbit speed, however changes the day length by 1 hour, when added or subtracted to rotation speed!)

Possible places of impact In order to produce the (un)desired effect of the above mentioned poleshift by modifying the Earth rotation angle and speed, the Earth must be hit under an vertical angle of 30° - 60° in one of the following places, then hitting it elsewhere will produce a different effect.
Impact is in the same direction as the Earth rotation. (Duration of a day was 25 Hrs - 349 Days / Year instead of 24 Hrs - 365 Days / Year)	Impact is in opposite direction to the Earth rotation. (Duration of a day was 23 Hrs - 380 Days / Year instead of 24 Hrs - 365 Days / Year)
Bermuda triangle	North -West Pacific Ocean
20N - 40N 60W - 100W Note: Crater of 500 X 700 Kms at Charleston coast.	40N - 70N 140E - 180E Note: No visible trace of Impact found
Australia	South of Cape Town
20S - 40S 80E - 120E Note: No visible trace at Australian continent.	40S - 70S 0 - 40W Note: No visible trace of Impact found

Possible length of a day.

To answer the above question of was the duration of a day longer or was the duration of a day shorter, we could try to find out if there is any memory of a day-length.

The first one I have tried to figure out, was the Mayan calendar, this one however does match Venus - Moon - Mars - Jupiter positions at 365.2425xx days a year at a regular interval, but their calendar does not seem to match anything at a shorter day length (more days in a year), nor does the Mayan calendar correspond at longer day length (lesser days in a year), which proofs that their calendar has been made afterwards and cannot be a left-over of an pre-deluvean culture. It may be possible that I have overlooked something but I do not think so, then even then when Maya's did exist 12'000 years ago and they had a calendar based on 349 days (or 380 days a year if you like) a year, then they would have modified their calendar anyway after the disaster to reflect the new situation.

The second one of the indices is the biological clock of mankind, then French research teams have twice closed up themselves in cavements totally isolated from the outside world, no reference to day light nor any other sign of outside life. Whatever the reason of those studies were, the secondary effect was in both cases that their day count differed from the outside world, then they counted longer days, (lesser count as the outside world) which could mean that the human biological clock is still on a 25 hour day, and therefore we must consider that the impact has taken place in the same direction as the Earth rotation direction, and shorten the days to 24 hours, instead of the 25 hour day as before the impact.

Note: The number of days in a year seems so obvious to most populations that they will not note that down, then it will never come up in their minds that this number of days in a year may change in future for one or the other reason.

Place of impact, Bermuda Triangle?.

This image illustrates the possible places of an impact in the Bermuda Triangle, the yellow line and ellipse would illustrate an Impact of an Object 7.5 Km / sec and a size of 150 Km, what looks to very unlikely to me, but remains within the possibilities.

The red line and ellipse corresponds to the above mentioned places and sizes, and is within the possibilities, than the strange profile of the Bermuda Triangle ocean floor may be a result of an earlier event or even the indirect result of the ocean floor sinking.

It is also possible the both of them are craters, one for the Atlantis disaster, and the other one is then from some earlier date.

Please note that the crater caused by the astriod or comet impact of 65'000'000 years ago, which had as result the distinction of the dinosaures, is still visible (look carefully, it's rather hard to see, but it is there!) on this picture as a +/- 800 km circle with the Yucatan point as the center.

The above picture shows in fact the supposed position and orientaion towards the north of the continents before the supposed astriod impact occurred.

Impact crater at Charleston coast.

This huge crater just outside the Charleston coast could very well be the result of the Asteroid (comet) impact, then the crater measures about 500 Kms by 700 Kms, what could indicate an impact of an object in size varying from 50 km to 70 Km, and therefore matches the sizes of the « Required Object Size » table mentioned above.

The elliptical form of the crater could indicate an impact angle of 30 to 60 degrees vertically, and as we can see on the picture above, and an North-South angle of 10 to 30 degrees.

The actual coordinates of the crater are 28 North and 75 West, having as coordinates before the impact 45 North and 75 West, which could be indeed be the correct place of the supposed pole shift to have happened, than it looks to me the correct place and the correct angle.

This picture is obtained by coloring the altitude data in a very special way, this to illustrate the ocean floor profile in this area.

Where did all the magma go, moved it South?

The writer Otto. H. Muck suggested that the material (magma) has been thrown out by the impact and fallen down on the Eurasian continent in the form of loess with the pre-deluvian rain, however the total amount of loess does not match the total amount material which must have disappeared with the lowering of the ocean floor.

It is more likely that the impact made a little (2'500 meters out of a total of 6'369'000 meters is very very little, say it's noting) dip by just shifting the magma downwards in one place and upwards in some othe place.

Drawing to illustrate the supposed magma movement, in the North Atlantic zone inwards, the Australian continent and South American continent outwards.

This because the Australian continent is at the antipodes of the impact, and the South American in pushed upwards by a part of the shockwave reflected by the the very massive Nickel-Iron kernel of the Earth, about four times the density of the surrounding magma.

The object itself is not stopped by neither the earth crust (far to thin) nor the water, and must have gone a faire distance towards the center of the Earth pushing the magma South.

The object has probably lost about 10% to 30% of its kinetic energy on the impact, and this energy caused, by heating up the ocean water, indirectly a part of the flooding rain, the remaining flooding rain has been caused by the cooling of melted stone of the magma being in contact with the ocean water for some period of time, this continuing to heat up the ocean water during a few weeks until the whole settled again, but by then the flooding rain, a result of the ocean water being heated up to much, and the earthquake's as result of the impact, have done their destructive job already, and did not have anything left!.

Remember that the total quantity of energy freed up by the disaster compares to several thousands times the power of all our actual thermo-nuclear weapons all added up together.

The sinking of Atlantis, according Otto.H.Muck.

This images illustrates Otto.H.Muck version of the sinking of the Continent of Atlantis.

This however rises a question, WHERE DID ALL THE MAGMA GO?, then an island can only sink than when it takes the place of something, in this case magma, but the total quantity of magma corresponding to the supposed sinking of the North Atlantic ocean floor is over 120'000'000 Km³, and this is to much to be able to disappear without leaving any trace. Then even the zone around the Acores islands would already be 7'500'000 Km³, as well that the ocean floor does not show a sign of being broken in the past between the A1cores islands and the European coast.

Even the total amount of Loess going from the French coast all the way up to China is only a few percent of this value, supposing that all this Loess comes all from this cataclysm.

It is not on the ocean floor to, and it has not all been transported by the rain over the rest of the world, so it supposed to be somewhere!.

This leaves only the possibility open that it has been moved to other places, in this case probably been moved South.

Illustration of Otto.H.Muck his version of the sinking of Atlantis.

What could have happened.

The shockwave of the impact pushed the magma beneath the North Atlantic ocean floor towards the South, such that the North Atlantic ocean floor has been lowered and caused indirectly the sinking of the island of Atlantis.

The South American continent is moved upwards by the shockwave as well the Australian continent, who is at the antipodes of the impact, as well other places could have been moved upwards, but I did not find any visible sign of this.

We do not know at this moment the exact amounts of sinking and rising, and this can only be investigated by looking for ancient coast lines, even there where we do not expect them, like up in Andes at levels up to 2'000 meters (why didn't the Inca's build anything below the 2'000 meter line?)

The supposed sinking of the North Atlantic ocean floor.

Example of how the supposed rising of West American continents could have taken place.

We We could also expect ancient coast lines to be all the way down on the North Atlantic ocean floor, however the disaster should not have left much down there, and I do not think that anybody will ever find anything over there.

North Atlantic ocean floor, before and after.

Images in special coloring in order to illustrate the sinking of the North Atlantic ocean floor, this image shows that the lowering is the most around 20 North and 45 West, and therefore as place where the Earth crust has one of its weakest points.

We can easily imagine that any impact of an Asteroid or Comet will open up the ocean floor as zipper from Island up in the North all the way down to South of Cape Town, generating an unbelievable disaster, such that even a Thermo-nucear War could not do better. (or worst depending how you look at it).

The interesting point of both images is that in both cases the continent lines do fit with the continent drift theory, then even the continents shown with Atlantis in the middle seem to fit on both sides.

Remember that all the maps where generated from real data being put in such a format that some aspects become visible, and that nothing besides the estimated levels of sinking were invented.

The corrections have been applied to the North Atlantic ocean floor and the South American west coast, the North American west coast should have been touched to but I don not know by how much, someone should try to find this out, then I cannot find anything justifying this change.

Wolter Smit, Freelance Computer Engeneer
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