He said shock waves from the impact would have travelled through the planet and disrupted the crust on the other side, causing changes in the magnetic field. In a third report, Nimmo and colleagues said such magnetic anomalies have been measured in Mars' Southern Hemisphere."We haven't proved the giant-impact hypothesis, but I think we've shifted the tide. The majority of the evidence is now in favour of the giant impact," Andrews-Hanna said in a statement.
Interesting theory. Taupo is a "super-volcano", it's last eruption was in 86AD. Perhaps there is a crater on the other side of the earth that corresponds to it's location?
what are you going to do with all this neat info you've gathered?
Taupo Is several super volcano's that have erupted at different intervals over 1000's of years. for this theory to be true it would mean that there would have had to of been many impacts in the same place multiple time's, wouldn't an impact of this size have a huge effect on the planets orbit?
Also for this theory to be true you are asuming that the potential energy has traveled through the earth without spreading...... as one would assume that normal physics laws apply. you would expect that energy to disipate through the entire core of the earth not just in a straight line..... but no doubt Grim or Simon will be here soon
I'm going to print it all out and make a series of hats and paper boats.Personally I would consider Taupo as a single magma event that has manifested in a super volcanoe and a series of other volcanic events due to plate tectonics, crustal seams, weak spots, and uprising hot spots. I would be surprised if volcanologists considered it differently.Your suggesting that "there would have had to of been many impacts" is simply not true, it is not a statement of fact at all. You are predicting the projection based solely on the impact and not taking into account all the other environmental factors involved. In short, you have over simplified the problem and dismissed it based on this over simplification.The main idea in this hypothesis is that an impact upsets the cores equilibrium and triggers a magma projection. It is not the projectile that directly causes the projection, I am suggesting that it is the disruption to the core's equilibrium that allows for a bubble of magma to rise over time. Significant time. As in millions of years perhaps, I don't know.This is not a hypothesis that simply states a asteroid hits and pushes out a volcano directly opposite. I thought I had made this clear... ?Firstly, it's not potential energy, it's kinetic. And I think you will find that it is you that has made an assumption about what I am suggesting.In a wave projection the strongest force is always directly in front of the wave. Also, the dispersion wave would reflect internally of the differing densities of the crust and the mantles. This would be a concave reflection due to the Earth's curvature and would refocus the dispersion waves energy back towards the primary waves apex.
Is it possable that the core of the planet could change the coarse of the impact to create a volcano ... eg how gravity bends light ... so that the volcano isnt exactly opposite the impact sight .just wondering but surely the core would change the projected coarse
Um question marks mean question not fact..... sorry but my terms are out cause its been a while. kinetic energy is? transfered energy ?. potential energy is stored energy?.... regardless of the name the theory of how the energy will transfere is the same. if the energy can spread it will. hence my statement of dispursion. I wasn't blowing holes in your theory more asking questions about it, names be wrong but theory be right..... Taupo is part (newZealand is part) of a tectonic fault line, and probably the main cause of most of the volcanos in Newzealand, it has several craters the biggest of which was the second to last eruption,
As for the faults, and volcanic activity, perhaps the asteroidal impact actually caused all this. Perhaps New Zealand exists because of an asteroid strike.
Especially seeing as how we don't really know what's going on inside our own planet...
I'm reading 'A Brief History of Everything' too, but i mustn't have gotten up to this chapter yet.
