Time is a man-made construct. We invented it to give us points of reference. The problem is, that we don't know whether what we use as our current base of time has always been the same. If it hasn't, then the way we look at history could be altered. A second problem with time as we know it is that as a man-made construct, it likely isn't reliable for use in scientific calculations. Let me try to give some examples: There are a number of ancient texts, the Bible and the Sumerian Kings list to name two, that note people with incredibly long life spans. In each instance the people mentioned lived for hundreds of years. Scholars have a tendency of writing these cases off as the author just want to show how important the people were to their civilizations. This sounds a little dodgy to me. The records were being kept by someone who was obviously literate...they were writing weren't they? Yet we are to believe that they would extend a historical figure's life span by unrealistic multiples just to show how important they were? Not only that, but that this unlikely and odd circumstance would occur spontaneously in disparate cultures? I highly doubt that. So how can we account for the longevity of these ancient peoples? My theory is that these people did live traditional life spans, but that our time references changed without us realizing it! Think about how we reference time. We consider a day one rotation around the earth's axis. Meanwhile, a year is one rotation of the earth in its orbit around the sun. If ancient peoples also used these definitions, then changes in the earth's velocity in its journey around the sun and changes in the earth's rate of spin around its own axis could be the cause of discrepancies between ancient ages and what we believe are possible. Remember, there was no mechanical time keeping back then. All time keeping was done through astronomical movements, sun dials etc. As long as shadows continued to move around a sundial, no one would be able to tell differences in time. The best way to try to picture what I am trying to explain is to think of a pool ball. When you hit a cue ball in a specific place you can get a specific type of spin. It is well documented that the earth has been hit by a number of asteroids in the past. Some scientists even theorize that the moon was created when a planet sized object struck the earth! My theory is that one of the asteroids that have hit earth during our recent past increased our velocity in our path around the sun. At the same time, it changed the speed in which we rotate on our own axis. Again, think of a pool ball that has just been hit by a cue ball. Sometimes the ball doesn't move from its spot, but instead spins very quickly. I suspect that a number of mysteries can be cleared up by my theory. To start, scientists already believe that an asteroid hit led to an extinction event among dinosaurs. Currently the largest land animal alive is the African elephant. The muscle structure necessary for even larger animals would be extraordinary under current levels of gravity. A massive change in the rate of our spin around our the earth's axis would explain why dinosaurs could exist in our past, yet wouldn't be feasible now. The increased spin has increased the earth's gravity to the point where the dinosaurs would be too heavy to support their own weight. The increased spin would also help to explain the change in our climate. In the past, large swaths of the earth were covered in tropical fauna. Evidence of this has been found in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Tropical climates are usually very humid. If the earth spun very slowly in our past, the atmosphere was likely much different. I suspect that a slower rotation of the earth and less gravity led to an atmosphere that was filled with water vapor. There is evidence that water levels were once much lower than they are today. Where did all of the extra water come from? While some of the water came from melting glaciers fairly recently (the last ice age), we need to remember that many areas of the globe had tropical climates at one point...not ice. So where did all of the extra water come from? I suspect that it came from our atmosphere once our rotation changed leading changes in the hydrologic cycle. Air currents are an important part of our hydrologic cycle. Without the transfer of cool air to warmer climates, we really wouldn't have precipitation. The earth would be enveloped in an almost perpetual mist. I suspect that a change in the velocity around our own axis lead to air currents, which helped to start the process we call the hydrologic cycle. When this process first started, I imagine that a deluge likely ensued...say forty days and forty nights of non-stop rain. Large areas of the earth were likely flooded. Nearly all cultures worldwide have a flood "myth". Could the story of Noah, and the stories of other flood survivors have some basis in fact? The longer life spans reported for "pre-flood" rulers would also be explained by an asteroid hit that not only increased the spin on our axis, but also increased the velocity of our trip around the sun. Remember, for thousands of years man has measured time by counting our revolutions around the sun. Some of you may split hairs and say we measured time by using the movements of other planets or the moon, etc. etc. While that may be so, the most accurate calendars were always based off of the movement of the sun or planets. At any rate, if at one time the earth was spinning more slowly on its axis, but at the same time was making its way around the sun at a faster clip, this would explain the longer life spans of the people who lived prior to the flood. I don't think their ages were recorded incorrectly, I just think our reference points changed. Our definition didn't change...and our observations didn't change, but our references points changed in a way that we, as a people failed to understand. That's my theory anyway.
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