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The south pole and Antarctica, with the extent of the south polar ice-cap shown by the dotted line. equator. When such a pole shift took place, most of the world's animal life would be destroyed, including any of man's tenuous attempts at civilisation. Hapgood demonstrated that our present ice-cap in Antarctica is merely the last of many thousands that have previously existed. Geological records reveal it is the latest of what may possibly be a long line of glistening s of Earth's life-forms. As T explained in 5/5/2000: Ice, The Ultimate Disaster, the cycle of ice build-up and crustal shifting would continuously reoccur because most of the snow that falls in the polar regions does not melt; the air temperature is too low. Instead, it is stored, changing to glacial ice. As this continues for thousands of years, the ice mass grows until a sudden rotating of our planet takes place. The Earth then shifts on its axis, producing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves of almost unimaginable magni- tude, as continents and sea areas are rearranged. Then, once again, ice begins to accumulate at the new polar regions. EINSTEIN ON HAPGOOD'S THEORY After Hapgood formulated his theory, he solicited the opinion and advice of the great scientist Albert Einstein. Einstein wrote: I frequently receive communications from people who wish to consult me concerning their unpublished ideas. It goes without saying that these ideas are very seldom possessed of scientific validity. The very first communications, however, I received from Mr Hapgood electrified me. His idea is original, of great simplic - ity, and—if it continues to prove itself—of great importance to everything that is related to the history of the Earth's surface. A great many empirical data indicate that at each point on the Earth's surface that has been carefully studied, many climatic changes have taken place, apparently quite suddenly. This, according to Hapgood, is explicable if the virtually rigid outer crust of the Earth undergoes, from time to time, extensive dis - placement over the viscous, plastic, possibly fluid inner layers. Such displacements may take place as the consequence of com - paratively slight forces exerted on the crust, derived from the Earth's momentum of rotation, which in turn will tend to alter the Cross-section of the Earth, showing the thin, brittle crust and the plastic, viscous underlayer. axis of rotation of the Earth's crust. Ina polar region there is continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The Earth's rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses, and produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the Earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum pro - duced in this way will, when it has reached a certain point, pro - duce a movement of the Earth's crust over the rest of the Earth's body, and this will displace the polar regions toward the equator. RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE As Dr Einstein commented, "...at each point on the Earth's sur- face that has been carefully studied, many climatic changes have taken place, apparently quite suddenly." It is worthwhile to look at some of these points to understand better what an abrupt cli- matic change involves. In many places the Alaskan muck is packed with bones and debris—in trainload lots. Bones of mammoth, mastodon, several kinds of bison, horses, wolves, bears and lions tell a story of rich faunal population. The Alaskan muck is like a fine, dark-grey sand. Within this matrix, frozen solid, lie the twisted parts of ani- mals and trees, intermingled with lenses of ice and layers of peat and moss. It looks as though, in the midst of some cataclysmic catastrophe of 10,000 years ago, the whole Alaskan world of living animals, plants and humans was suddenly frozen in mid-motion—a grim charade. Throughout Alaska, the gnawing currents of rivers have eaten into many frozen banks of muck to reveal these bones and tusks protruding at all levels. Whole gravel bards in the rivers were formed of the jumbled fragments of animal remains. The Pleistocene period ended in death. Surely, this could be no ordinary extinction of a vague geological period which fizzled to an uncertain end: termination was catastrophic and all-inclusive. These deaths were of such colossal proportions that they are stag- gering to contemplate. It is thought that during the last shift of the Earth's crust, Alaska, indeed, all of North America and South America were NEXUS - 47 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1997