The calendar and the Holocene
by
S.V.M. Clube
Armagh Observatory
Coauthors: D.J. Asher (Armagh Observatory)

There is increasingly strong astrophysical and geophysical evidence for extreme climatic conditions corresponding to the overall pattern of *atmospheric* impacts that are associated with successive supermassive meteor streams [1, 2, 3]. The Late Pleistocene-Holocene global frequency around (2500 years)^-1 occurring in celestial and terrestrial records alike is clearly of fundamental significance. There is also increasingly important historical evidence for early perpetual calendars with specific `endgamic'-luni-`semitic' characteristics (e.g. phase) related to a principal long term cycle (P) and its harmonic (P/4) of 2520 and 630 years respectively. The principal cycle (P) is apparently associated with the nodal precession period of the latest (extant) meteor stream and its giant cometary source (active for, say, 70 kiloyears) while the principal harmonic (P/4) appears to have been initiated comparatively recently by tidal disintegration of the remnant source (ca. 3150 BCE) during a close planetary encounter (i.e. with Mercury). Based on this physical model affecting contemporary climate change, there are rather good grounds for believing that the interface between the (extended) medieval mini-ice age and the (extended) current bout of gloal warming is a typical harmonic `endgamic' event. The final (much maligned) publications of Newton essentially predicted this event and it is important therefore to understand why such research has not been more widely appreciated. The early perpetual calendar did in fact have a very bad press at the start of the present era (2000 BP) and it has been customary since `enlightenment' to regard such calendars as essentially numerological and therefore somehow unscientific. However, this attitude of mind is frankly elitist and merely hides the fact that most successful formulations of physical science can also be regarded as little more than higly successful numerological schemes entrenched in so-called `scientific law'.

References

[1] Bailey M.E. (these proceedings) [2] Steel D.I. (these proceedings) [3] Napier W.M. (these proceedings)

Date received: March 11, 2002

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