Who Built the Moon?

by Christopher Knight, Alan Butler

The authors of Civilization One return present new evidence about the Moon that will shake up our world. What if the Moon isn’t a natural object—but an artificial construct?   Christopher Knight and Alan Butler realized that the ancient system of geometry they presented in their earlier, breakthrough study works as perfectly for the Moon as it does the Earth. On further investigation, they found a consistent sequence of beautiful integer numbers when looking at every major aspect of the Moon—no such pattern emerges for any other planet or moon in the solar system.   Knight and Butler also discovered that the Moon possesses few or no heavy metals and has no core—something that should not be possible. Their persuasive if higher life only developed on Earth because the Moon is exactly what it is and where it is, it becomes unreasonable to cling to the idea that the Moon is a natural object. The only question that remains is, who built it?

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Conspiracy Theories, Mystery, History, Occult, Astronomy

318 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Christopher Knight is an author who has written several books dealing with pseudoscientific conspiracy theories such as 366-degree geometry and the origins of Freemasonry.
In an interview about the book Who Built the Moon?: 2005 Knight stated that the moon is an artificial construction probably built by humans with a message in "base ten arithmetic so it looks as though it is directed to a ten digit species that is living on Earth right now - which seems to mean humans." He believes that it was created to make life on Earth possible, including humans, and that the most likely builders were humans of the future using time travel.

Reviews

[karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

it's the moon, y'all!!!!



...or is it??

my dismissal of the moon-as-entity started some years ago, when they were running all those "the moon landing was a hoax and we were just trying to beat the russians, so we lied" specials on the teevee. and the man of the house would watch them, and i would breeze through the room and laugh at how earnest these people were; with their "the flaaaag! look at how it is mooooving!" and these programs really pissed off TMOTH. for someone who genuinely believes in aliens and nessie and gypsy curses*, he also believes in the idea of america, and was personally offended that people would doubt our great achievement. so i started to equate these things in my head, hokum-wise, and the moon landing became as implausible as the jersey devil, simply on the grounds that he believed in both of them. and it is so delightful to be able to lean over any time, apropos of nothing, and whisper, "sound stage,"



because he invariably makes this outraged face and get really emotionally invested in whether some dudes in the sixties went to the moon and he will start berating me and he will be 100% sincere, as if it matters one bit in our day-to-day lives.

and then, once i realized just how many people believed that the moon landing was a hoax, it seemed a natural progression to widen my playful stance to something even more outrageous, and start my own conspiracy theory party and claim that the moon does not exist at all. and this pisses off conspiracy theorists, which is fun, because obviously i don't believe the moon does not exist for real, but people get so committed to arguing, it is fun to watch their little faces get all red as they try to "prove" the moon to me. as if i care.

i'm an empiricist. i have never been to brazil. it is really as full of beautiful, sexually permissive people as pop culture would have me believe? i will never know, because i will never go there. hell, i don't even know if brazil exists. SOUND STAGE!!!

but so anyway, my point is that this book was a great gift from our beloved bird brian, because now i know the Truth about the Moon.

want me to spoil it for you??

because, seriously, you have to get through over 150 pages of the 225-page book to get to the point.

there is a lot of this:

We can only assume that a polar circumference was used and taking the 40,008 km figure it translates to 48,221,838 Megalithic Yards using Thom's central value for the unit. It was then subdivided as follows:

Polar circumference = 48,221,838 MY
1 Degree (1/366th) = 131,754 MY
1 Minute (1/60th) = 2,196 MY
1 Second (1/6th) = 366 MY

So, this brilliant system of geometry starts with 366 degrees and finishes with seconds of arc that are 366 Megalithic Yards long. Self-evidently, an amazing set of 'wheels within wheels'!

i mean, i guess that is exciting enough to warrant an exclamation point? i don't know. the last time i did math, i was counting on my fingers. (although i got this really cute teeny tiny calculator for christmas, and i am taking its picture in front of the window to commemorate the one time it snowed in new york this season)



but math just isn't something i get excited about. and magical math, like numerology, forget it. math is not fun. reading is fun. apeiron is fun. eating cookies is fun. making numbers do what you want them to do makes me feel lonely and sad. the authors insist that it is not numerology, but i can't tell the difference here. i don't know shit from poundcake about math or astrophysics.

not a surprise to any of you, i'm sure.

so but the beginning of this book is a lot of blah blah to me. i was not skimming, but a lot of their facts i just had to trust that they researched, because i'm not super-strong on equatorial circumferences and how pendulums work during eclipses and shit. it is all about astronomy and genetics and geology and anthropology and all sorts of hard and social sciences building up to make some Big Point.

which is basically that "the moon should not exist. it is too perfectly useful to our planet, and its formation goes against all reason."

I KNOW, RIGHT?? IT DOES NOT EXIST, I WIN!

but, no. they are saying something else.

they are saying it DOES exist (booo) but it was clearly constructed by some entity, and not a naturally-occurring body.

so then there are three explanations given, based on their hypotheses:

1) The Moon was engineered by an unknown agency circa 4.6 billion years ago to act as an incubator to promote intelligent life on Earth.

2) The unknown agency knew that humanoids would be the result of the evolutionary chain.

3) That unknown agency wanted the resulting humanoids to know what had been done and they left a message indicated by the dynamics of the Moon and its relationship with the Earth.

so their three possible solutions are:

1) god made it.

but then they disprove god, so that one is wrong.

(okay, they don't really, but they say why no god could/would have made it)

2) aliens made it.

but then they explain why this could not be so, but do not disprove the existence of aliens.

3) weeee did it! but not we-we (hahahaha "wee-wee"), but some "we" from the future.

which is their conclusion. time traveling humans made the moon, because without the moon, we would not exist. chicken. egg.



here is a page of their explanation, to convince you:

Firstly, it has to be acknowledged that there are no other possible candidates that we know of anywhere in the Universe. God exists by faith and not as a result of evidence, and aliens may or may not exist. It is entirely possible that we are totally alone, either in our part of space or in the whole of the Universe. In any case, who would have more to gain from a life-producing planet than the very intelligent creature that has most benefited from its existence, namely humanity?

The question of how the UCA could have known that the intelligent species on Earth would evolve with ten fingers and therefore adopt base-ten arithmetic, at a time when the Moon was exactly where it is today, is answered instantly if humanity is the agency we are seeking. The mystery simply dissolves if we are the unknown creative agency.

Another difficult issue to explain has been how the UCA could possibly have used Megalithic and metric units as part of the message. Once again, this scenario resolves the problem. Indeed, it adds to the message because it makes it very clear that the UCA 'has to be' humans from our future, travelling back in time to manufacture the Moon.

The motive for the message becomes obvious and absolutely necessary. If humans do not become alerted to the need to manufacture the Moon as an incubator for life - we would not be here.

However, there is the problem we can't avoid. Humanity might be described as having been reasonably technologically advanced for around 100 years. The Moon came into being some 4,600,000,000,000 years ago. We have to admit that this does represent a bit of a gap.

The answer can only be time travel.

and there you have it.

that is where our moon comes from.

i think the message part of it is a little suspect, myself. their whole thing is that the message is mathematical perfection of the moon vis-a-vis the earth.

Once complete, our Moon worked its magic and life began, evolving eventually into an intelligent, ten-fingered species that uses Megalithic and metric units. The message had to be built into the very nature of the structure or else we would miss the cue to understand what we need to do.

see, that's exactly the kind of message i have missed. it seems like it would have made more sense to have just sent an email or something. don't expect me to sit around idly calculating the moon's distance from the earth and the circumference and tilt and revolutions in my free time, because that is not going to happen, future humans... don't you know project runway season 11 just started?

AND DO NOT TELL ME WHO WINS, SPOILER-FUTURE-HUMANS!

but it's good that someone understood this message, and thank you for building the moon because i think the tides are awesome.

however, the authors, one of whom may or may not be



made one fatal error. although there is that whole chapter saying "noooo, it couldn't be aliens, nope!," at one point he says,

Humans are incredibly robust creatures considering we are little more than animated bags of water hanging on a mineral frame.

THAT SOUNDS LIKE ALIEN TALK TO ME, BUDDY!

don't say "we," because i am on to you now.

so mayyybe it was time-traveling humans, and mayyyybe it was aliens disguising themselves as human authors. perhaps brazilians. i don't know. all i know is I READ THIS BOOK!


* if you think i am joking, you are wrong - he totally believes in gypsy curses**, and that is another fun thing to mutter because apparently just saying the phrase "gypsy curse" is enough to cause one to fall upon your head.

**which i think is supposed to be called "roma disagreements" these days, but oops.

come to my blog!

[Leo . · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an interesting book. I read this a couple of years ago and found it very eye opening. An alternative look at science. The Moon is a mysterious and enigmatic heavenly body. The ancients were as obsessed with the Moon equally as the Sun. Sometimes it is good for the mind to explore other theories of the Moon. Think outside of the box or, cube.



Am I a Templar? Am I an Assassin? A Lord? A Sir? A Priest? A Monk? A Usurper? A Slaver? A Satanist? A Mystic? A Druid? A Mage? A Kabbalist? A King? A Prince? An Earl or a Duke? A Freemason? I am none of these things but, I know who they are and what they do, I am Leo...expect me. They are they, and we are them. Expect us.





Who built the moon? How did it come to be?

Was it, as in the Bible, created by a deity?

Was it dragged here by some alien race?

Just left there floating, in outer space

Is it a remnant of another heavenly body? A boulder?

Is the Earth young? Is the Moon much older?

Does the Moon control the tides? Like they tell us so

The Oceans, the seas, their ebb and flow

Is the Moon a death star? Like in the movie flicks

Is the Moon an illusion? Is it playing tricks?

One side is dark, the other shines bright

Glowing in the night sky, emitting false light

Does the Moon make people crazy? Lunar, lunacy, madness

When the Moon is Blue, are we filled with sadness?

When the planets align, is this prophecy, like the Bible says

Or just a giant clock, ever lasting, always

Is the Moon a soul catcher? Like the dream works logo

Fishing for souls, recycling them, preventing them to go

Where souls are meant to be, their destiny, a place of no suffering and pain

Does the Moon send souls back to Earth? To live another life, and repeat all over again

So who built the Moon? How did it come to be?

Was it, as in the Bible, created by a deity?

By Leo🐯👍


Maybe it is a hologram, an illusion, not real

Maybe it is made of cheese, like a giant Edam wheel!!!!🐯👍

[Lanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The authors of this book ask that the reader keeps an open mind.
I tried, I really did.
And at first it was good fun, it was like listening stoned hippies talking about all the weird things.

Like the moon. The moon is weird.
It's too big, too close, too light, too hollow. It just shouldn't exist.
If the moon wasn't there the earth would fall over. The moon is exactly the same apparent size as the sun (except when it isn't). If we didn't have a moon life wouldn't have developed on earth at all. That's weird.

Apparently the moon is so weird that it can't possibly be natural, it has to be artificial. In order to support this claim the authors invoke all sorts of other weirdness, DNA, megalithic yards, Sumerian geometry, black holes, closed time like curves, quantum physics, and planetary motion.

All this (we are told) proves the authors' thesis, that the moon was created artificially to cause human evolution, and the architects of this feat are us.
Yes, in the future humans will be so clever they will build a time machine, go back into the past, build the moon and set the whole thing in motion so that we can evolve and become clever enough to make a time machine.

All well and good. Pass the doobie this way, my mind is open and my brain has fallen out.

Unfortunately the authors themselves get all serious and keep their own minds closed.
Having thought of such a wonderful theory (and supported it with mostly unreferenced science) they insist that it as true, there can be no argument and no discussion. This is the truth and they have demonstrated it to their a own satisfaction, therefore it is unarguable, inalienable, and obvious to anyone who is brave enough to slavishly follow their lead.
'Baa' said the sheeple.

Whatever, it was a laugh.

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

All right. I was super into this when I first started it. 100% - the moon is a terrifying vigilant monster that haunts every moment of our lives and none of us understand anything about it least of all those who have been there. Great.

And the beginning of the book was solid to, as it laid out the grounds for the problem and began to suppose issues that the moon's improbable existence poses.

But all too quickly, the books sink into what I've started calling "Ancient Aliens Logic". It goes something like this:
- Here is a problem for which there are either a) no satisfying scientific answers, or b) the scientific response is too boring.
- Here is some evidence that indicates a different possibility than what science offers.
- Based on nothing that this evidence indicates, here is totally unqualified conjectural hypothesis X.
- "So now that we know X is true. . ."

And this the moon is a hollow sphere planted there to create life and it was probably us from the future that did it.

And I tried so hard to like this book.

[هادی امینی · Rating 1 out of 5]

خیلی ایده درخشانی نداشت. از این دست فرضیات متوهمانه براساس چند تا سرنخ کوچیک خیلی هم دور. از این سرنخ‌ها نتایج راحت تر و دم دست تری هم میشد گرفت.
اما چند تا نکته علمی جالب توش بود.
برای من جالب ترینش، چگالی خیلی پایین ماه بود. اینکه انگار تو خالی باشه.
بحث یارد مگالیتی هم بد نبود. اینکه چطور در یک دوره، قسمت زیادی از دنیا از این واحد استفاده می‌کردند.
همین و بس!

[Seth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually haven't read this book.

[Thomas Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most wildly brilliant books I've read, it's science meets philosophy with a twist of conspiracy, and a real thinking book. The coincidences of the moon, it's size, distance, make-up, relationship to life on Earth, is all too coincidental to be an mere Darwinian accident.

Knowledge of science in this country has taken a nose dive in the last century, thanks to JD Rockefeller and his General Education Board in WW1, but that is a different topic. How many Americans know what the Scientific Method is? Critical thinking is not taught and biased political-socio-economic views now dominate all subjects in the state-run training centers. Darwinists criticize religion for the leap of faith required to believe in God while taking a leap of faith with the theory of evolution, while claiming it's settled science. It does not matter that evolution as never been directly observed or duplicated in a lab, which is required to shift a theory to a law or truth.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity was a theory few believed in until scientists around the world could independently observe and measure Einstein's predictions to confirm the theory, at least the central predictions. But today we base our belief in science on feelings, not facts. But the authors do assume Darwinian evolution is true for the sake of their overall argument, and that's okay, all possibilities should be considered in a debate. They do admit that evolution avoids, purposely, how life began in the first place and the odds of just getting to the first single-cell in a primordial soup is so mathematically remote that the human brain can barely comprehend it.

But what does all this have to do with the moon? This book walks through the current knowledge of the moon and its relationship with the Earth including current theories of how it got her in the first place. The authors explore all possibilities, even religious ones, while talking through their thoughts which makes it a very fun and interesting read. The theory of the moon being the sign that we were created, whether by God or an alien race, such as the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, is fascinating. Its relationship with the Megolithic yard and Metric system by ancients, and other theories is mind blowing and thought provoking.

I cannot recommend "Who Built the Moon?" highly enough, if you're looking for something different to read, to make you think about our world from a new angle, you'll love this book.

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The authors of this book suggest that the moon is artificial, and that we built it: that is, human beings from the future. If you don't think that's worth reading, you're unimaginative.

[Tyler · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bunkum of the least entertaining variety.

[Wallace · Rating 2 out of 5]

"The moon was created by aliens because the moon goes around the earth 365 times every 10,000 days." Well put but a little obvious, no?

[Jamie Nichols · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating concept. Really gets the imagination going.

[Jeremy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very thought provoking book.

[❆ Ash ❆ (fable link in bio) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting to think about but i just don’t really know if this much thought and stretching should’ve gone into this book.

[Sylvain Malfroy-Camine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Keep open, however, GRAIN OF SALT is RECOMMENDED...keep exploring!

This very carefully written book presents very compelling evidence that the moon was an intentional construction. The argument comes straight out of scientific conjecture. There is interesting mathematical/physical data on the moon that makes its being a coincidental manifestation incredibly unlikely. One interesting piece of data that comes to mind is that the moon is made of earth matter, but is something a good deal less dense than the Earth, and that when seismographs responded to satellites hitting the moon it reportedly 'rang like a bell'. Anyways, this is one of many remarkable statements contained in the book that lead the authors to the conclusion that human beings are responsible for the moon's existence. This is based on the fact that time behaves very strangely on the quantum level, and that it's entirely possible that "We are our own fathers". With that in mind, it is well worth noting again, that this is a very carefully written and researched writing that insists on maintaining that the conclusions reached are the result of following the data, and that the authors are entirely open to different viewpoints. The whole thing makes a good deal of sense, and has sincerely changed my outlook on existence. Namely, that the mystery is quite deeper than I had known, and that I hold the key to knowledge.

[Chauncy Peppertooth · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I read this book, I was must have been thereabouts of twenty-two or twenty-seven. It covers the moon and speculates d how it came into being. The magic of Who Built the Moon is that it actually had me believing that it was built by human beings. Who here time travels? Come on, don't be shy. We all do... but just not that fast! Or backwards and fast! So... as implausible as humans building Mother Moon may be, I stand corrected. The moon was built by the capital letter S. Money also contributed to the process. But flesh was not involved.

[Amber · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought it was a funny title. The first part about the history and make-up of the moon is really interesting. Their explanation of who "built" it is... eh. Judge for yourself. God? No. Space Aliens? No. Humans from the future with time machines? YES!

[Angus Mcfarlane · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fascinating account of the uniqueness of the moon and it's inexplicable origins, providing reasons for the intimate way Earth and Moon belong together like tongue and cheek.

[Tugay Sarıkaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely good! relaxing, enjoyable and nice to know about the moon's secrets

[Audrey Cienki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thought provoking.

[Rafael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book enjoyable and interesting mainly because it presented facts that I was not aware of about moon, our solar system, the earth, our metrics, archeology, etc.. The final presented hypothesis, which the whole book is building up towards, was more of an imagination tickling science fiction which I enjoyed, but it was a bit out there to say the least, ok no not just 'a bit', it would require the most astute sci-fi writer to come up with the stuff. The writers say that they have been open minded and tried all possibilities before arriving at their hypothesis. But that's not the case. There are so many things they have left out or ruled out in order to hone in on the their own path. I will give you two examples without spoiling too much (but yes, spoiler alert from this point onward); (1) back when this book was written there was not yet any explanation for the gravitational anomalies on the moon, called mascons. After some reasoning back and forth the authors arrive at the conclusion that only an unknown conscious entity could have put them there to send us humans a message. However, about 10 years later NASA:s Twin grail probe helped to solve the mystery of the mascons, and apparenly they were made in a completely natural manner. Secondly (2) one of the premises that allows them to lead us to their final conclusions is that the moon is built completely out of earth's crust material (so, not so many heavy metals which reside in the earth's interior), an argument which they base on the analysis on moon rock analysis brought back from space missions to the moon (the 1969-1972 Apollo space missions) . To use this premise they have to falsify the conspiracy theory which claims that "USA never sent a manned mission to the moon". And this allows them to conclude a hypothesis that is as sci-fi as it can ever get. So hypothesis 1 "man did not go to the moon" needs to be false, in order for hypothesis 2 "the most sci-fi-ish hypothesis ever made" to be true. It's rather odd logic. I would rather suspect that hypothesis one was true. Or in other words; if it stands between "USA lied between the moon landing" and "The most crazy sci-fi idea you can think of", I would think the first to the true. Anyway, enough now, the book is enjoyable, it presents interesting facts, findings, philosophies and thoughts. As you can read it definitely got my mind racing. It's definitely worth a read.

[Kathy Martone · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent read. The authors bring some very compelling arguments to the table with lots of fascinating facts to back them up. Lots of unexplained mysteries add to the appeal.

[Elias · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tell me there is a god without telling me there is a god..

[TheOldWoman&TheSea · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book. I’m not quite sure what to think of it, but it certainly makes you wonder.

[Mike Lisanke · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author presents a few interesting facts about the moon which the reader would wish were greatly elaborated; they weren't. Then the author dashes between numerous factoids of questionable merit/validity and even invokes the likely of God (or men from the future) as those who engineered the moon... Why? All a science book reader would want is facts... and not facts about how the moon may have cause DNA abiogenesis (not without a great deal more theory). This book wanders through arguments hoping the reader will become confused the author really knows what he's talking about. Evoking luminaries in related fields the author hopes will become involved in his work is no better. IMO this is just another sci-fi seen as Possible science book which possibly never should be written... now where are the detailed explanations of the hallow moon! Where's the isotopic data of surface rocks (if we actually made it to the moon).

[Ethan Flamm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic overview of all major scientific discoveries regarding the moon and its impact on life and culture over time. Including some fascinating implications of such data.

[Ben De Bono · Rating 4 out of 5]

The authors’ answer to the title question so ballsy that I can’t help but give this a positive review. Is it well written? Not really but I can’t help but admire their willingness to go THERE!!

[Graham Elliott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

First class read, excellent theory oily estimates and explanations on how the moon came to be. Well worth reading. If you only read one book this year then this is it.

[Leticia Supple · Rating 4 out of 5]

Christopher Knight and Alan Butler's story is an intriguing scientific journey. While the very title of the book, Who Built the Moon?, may cause your hackles to rise with indignation, it's at once a challenge to your open-mindedness, and extremely ballsy.

Knight and Butler became curious about the origins of the moon. Their quest to discover the moon's origins took them (and subsequently, you, as you read this book) to some far out, apparently unrelated, and yet deeply interesting places. You will learn about units of Sumerian measurement, and why they are central to understanding astronomical anomalies. You will learn, as you read, to unravel your own prejudices and follow the path of exploration.

I know very well that those who staunchly defend Science will instantly guffaw at the notion of the moon being built, it is those self-same people who ought to be able to follow the evidence in all of its forms, and be curious about the outcome. At its heart, scientific enquiry requires a sense of adventure and a good imagination.

It's a difficult subject, and Knight and Butler handle it with clarity, simplicity, and skill. When we got into discussions about quantum mechanics, mobius twists, and the nature of what I will render as 'multiverses' rather than 'multiple universes', that's really the only point in the book wherein the content became challenging enough to exercise my brain to the point where it hurt. The remainder of the subject matter was adroitly handled, with a careful simplicity that deserves applause.

But I do have questions. I question the notion of a human-created moon, because it would suppose that at some point we will come to a place where the moon is either threatened or does not exist. I wonder whether anybody has picked up where Knight and Butler have left off, mapping genomes to pixels. I am curious to know what impact this work, and the hypothesis (and results) it presents, have had any impact on communities at all. And if it hasn't, why hasn't it?

You can tell I haven't started querying the internet yet.

The only irritating thing with this book, given its beautiful framework of argumentation, was the unnecessary and annoying gaps in the proofing. It's tough to give a lot of credit to a work wherein the word 'physicist' is repeatedly misspelled. Still, we plough onwards. The work is good enough that we can overlook this.

I'm not going to cast here the argumentation in the book. Instead, I will merely exhort you to find it and read it. It's easily enough read in one sitting, if you have the luxury of uninterrupted time.

To conclude this piece, I'll take a quote from the book:

"...if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices."

[Eric · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really looking forward to this book so maybe that's why I only thought it was OK. Christopher Knight's "The Hiram Key" was so good I was expecting more of the same. It's true that they discover some highly improbable coincidences regarding the relative size of the earth, moon and sun as well as in their orbits, rotation, composition and other details.

Unfortunately, it seemed to me that for this book they decided to take a pamphlet of new data and pad it with an introductory science course. At the end they draw a conclusion regarding time travel that seems to be appended for the sake of sensationalism.

One of my main beefs with this book is that they base their theory on scientific principals that are more unlikely than time travel. I would have thought that since they were writing a book based on cosmology that they would have checked the current state of some of their supporting theories. The most glaring of these is that "The Big Bang Never Happened". This has a ripple effect through the rest of the cosmological data and provides me with a theory for the creation of the moon that is more likely than any provided in the book, but I won't save it for my own publisher so here it is.

The plasma theory allows for a universe with no beginning or end. The sun and stars are not fusion reactions, they are conduits to an infinite source of power. If the earth was created 4.5 billion years ago and the moon is possibly even older I would surmise that the moon is, at least at its hollow core, an enormous space ship that came to this solar system from another billions of years older still. I submit that it identified the earth as a prime candidate for colonization/utilization and placed itself in an orbit that allowed for stabilization of the earths movements to the ideal, which is where they are. Gravity is neither a strong force nor one which cannot be counteracted. The maneuver would be similar to the space shuttle docking with a satellite. In a mutually beneficial terra-forming operation it then moved material from earth to cloak itself from meteor strikes as well as to create the earth's Pangaea platform from which the life experiments were begun.

This sounds very much like what our corporate society would do if interstellar commerce ever commenced. And from the sounds of it, there are some highly valuable stockpiles of elements on the moon.

Oh, the joys of sci-fi!

[Ernesto Rodriguez · Rating 1 out of 5]

Triste decepción.
Empezó siendo una lectura agradable e interesante, con un lenguaje sencillo y un tanto informal, lo cual fue una pista inicial para lo que venía después. Cuando el autor empezó a dar cifras y datos técnicos fue que algo empezó a oler mal. El autor no tiene el mínimo cuidado al expresar datos matemáticos, físicos y astronómicos; por ejemplo, dice “La luna es 400 veces más chica que la estrella en el centro de nuestro sistema solar”, ¿más chica? ¿qué es más chica? ¿se refiere al volumen? ¿al diámetro? Cuando alguien dice chico o grande yo imagino un volumen, su lenguaje es muy ambiguo, muy básico e impreciso, no parece tener la mínima preparación académica.
Es cuando empieza a hablar de probabilidades y utilizar notación científica cuando ya es grave la situación. Dice que, para crear una proteína, un gen de DNA tendría que contener 1000 nucleótidos en su cadena y que en cada cadena de DNA hay 4 tipos de nucleótidos. En cuanto a genética soy ignorante y habría que verificar estos datos, pero con respecto a las posibilidades que existen de combinar estos elementos sí puedo hacer el cálculo, y este personaje da números completamente equivocados, dice que las posibles formas (combinaciones) son 4 X 10^1000 cuando el cálculo es: si el orden en el que se acomodan los nucleótidos importara (que no lo creo, ya digo que no se de genética) P= n^r = 4^1000 = 1.1481 X 10^602 , y si el orden no importara sería C = (n+r-1)!/(r!(n-1)!) = (4+1000-1)!/(1000!*(4-1)!) = 167, 668,501. Por lo tanto, se puede ver que este personaje no sabe de lo que habla.
Viendo esto, busqué información sobre el autor y encontré que su experiencia es en publicidad y mercadeo, ¿qué hace un publicista y mercadólogo escribiendo un libro que habla de astronomía, arqueología, paleontología, etc.? Parece que este señor no tiene ninguna preparación académica y se pone a publicar este tipo de obras. Se queja de que los académicos no lo toman en serio, pero ¿cómo podrían?
En fin, solo lo terminé para ver que más decía, pero lo único que pasó fue que me decepcioné aún más, llega a una conclusión que, a mi parecer, es descabellada.
En general, muy malo el libro en mi opinión.