LONDON: Our Earth goes through a lot of changes. New York University Biology Professor Michael Rampino believes that every 30 million years, our Earth goes through a seemingly scheduled mass extinction and geological upheaval. Does this have anything to do with what our solar system crashes through as it bobs its way through the galaxy?
The professor’s argument is that our solar system — and the Earth — regularly dips through a cloud of subatomic particles which wreaks havoc on the stability of our planet’s molten core and the fragile orbits of comets.
These subatomic particles, he says, are of ever elusive dark matter — the so far invisible, and unproven, substance that appears to make up most of the substance of the universe.
