Ancient Greeks were known to observe planets
quite diligently, because they believed that "gods"
traversed the skies and navigated between stars in cosmos.
Planets are quite easy to distinguish from stars, because
they "move" with respect to the "fixed"
pattern of stars and constellations that ancient Greeks
called "cosmos". The word cosmos means "pattern"
or "ornament" in ancient Greek.
Names that ancient Greeks gave to planets are still in use
today. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn are all names of ancient
Greek "gods". There has never been any doubt which
planet was which.
Greeks know that some time ago there existed a planet called
Phaeton, that does not exist today, because
it perished in a flash.
In ancient Greek the meaning of the word Phaeton is "shiny",
"luminous", "source of light". Words
"photon" and "Phaeton" originate from
the same ancient Greek root.
Phaeton was considered by Greeks "a son of Helios"
(son of Sun), due to its extreme brightness in comparison
to all other "gods".
The name and status given to Phaeton confirms beyond doubt
that Phaeton was one of the brightest and the most prominent
objects in the sky at night. As a "Son of Sun"
Phaeton was as prominent during the night as Sun was during
the day. There is no possibility that Phaeton was an asteroid,
meteorite or some cometary debris. Phaeton was definitely
a planet.
When Phaeton perished following a flash that some people
saw - everyone in Greece knew about it. Absence of Phaeton
must have been really difficult not to notice by people
who remembered seing it all their lives.
Plato (one of the greatest philosophers of all time) was
aware that the belief that "Phaeton was destroyed by
lightning" introduced by religion to explain the disappearance
of Phaeton was just a clumsy interpretation of the real
cosmic event.
Imagine generations of people praying daily to their "god"
all their lives finding out that it disappeared in a flash
one day.
They could no longer pray to this god, couldn't they? To
them, the planet that vanished was as real as sunshine...
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The story of Phaeton is one of the the best witness accounts
of any cosmic event in human history. Documents can be altered,
mistranslated and destroyed, but information carried through
cultural traditions and heritage is very difficult to alter.
Some people may consider the story of the planet Phaeton perishing
in a flash to be a result of collective hallucination or stupidity
of ancient Greeks. However, there exists material
evidence that a planet has indeed exploded in our
Solar System...
After a planet explodes - the debris should still circle the
Sun along a similar trajectory. This is due to the elementary
conservation of momentum principle. Interestingly, there exists
an "asteroid belt" between Mars and Jupiter, existence
of which is a "mystery" in science. Coincidence?
The fact that not a single scientist on Earth since Plato
ever considered explaining how a planet can perish from the
solar system is a sign of continuing decay of humanity on
Earth.
Anyone who dares to admit the ancient Greek witness report
and existing material evidence for consideration and tries
to explain how a planet could perish from the Solar System
- is instantly called a heretic, even though such a consideration
leads to discoveries
no less important than discoveries of Galieo and Copernicus.
There is not much progress in human attitude on Earth since
times of Great Inquisition, isn't it ?
A planet, like everything material in the Universe,
is expected to decay in time. The rate of this decay, however,
depends on a number of factors.
For example, 1 gram of plutonium can be expected to decay
for many thousands of years. But, 1 kg of plutonium will not
last even 10 milliseconds... When a radioactive isotope reaches
so-called "critical mass" - it explodes.
Can we guarantee
that our reckless abuse and overheating of Earth does not
increase the probability of radioactive isotopes in the Earth's
core reaching critical mass?
The story of Phaeton proves that existence of a planet in
our Solar System cannot
be taken for granted...
Do we need planet Earth? Maybe we don't...
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Phaeton
- the planet that perished in a flash