In our study of our own Earth we have found patterns in erosion and the landscape made from years of runoff. Anyone who has ever looked at the landscape from a vantage point can see the patterns and the similarities. Is there such a thing as patterns of erosion? Have we found similar patterns here on Earth as we have on the surface of Mars? Actually we have. Anyone who has been a pilot and has flown over the desert, over a mountain range or even in a glider using the areas updrafts and downdrafts understands that patterns of erosion do exist. We know that the fluid dynamics used by water, pressure or heat, which slowly over time brings mountain into river and eventually into silt, has patterns of erosion from top to bottom. In fact some of the best farmland in the world will appear at the bottom of a mountain range where the water has washed the sediment into a valley. Or where a glacier has grinded away rock into fine sand, where a volcano has spread itself out over large area and overtime makes with the dust, dirt and other factors mentioned into a flat plain. We see all this on Mars as well. But cultures have been studying these things on Earth for centuries. Without getting into the debate between the Neptunists and the Plutonists or why the seashells are in the Alps and amongst the rocks and mountains at the highest elevations or why plate Tectonics exist, form, fold under and renew or how volcanoes form or earthquakes occur in this discussion, it is safe to say that what Hutton and the others debated in the royal society of Edinburgh and others in the Geological Societies of the 1830s all 745 of them did indeed understand that nature is a brilliant set of interconnected systems and its patterns, cycles, flows and frequencies can be quantified and eventually completely explained. They believed that in fact it could all be explained through patterns in mathematics and is quite easier to figure out today using supercomputers with a slight change in the way we observe and have been taught to learn mathematical equations to explain the earth system. If you read The Theory of the Earth and Magnum Opus by Hutton and understand his thoughts on the patterns of erosion, that everything would eventually be warned down the smooth. We know that since our earth wobbles slightly and is not perfectly smooth, and has a moon, and has fluid dynamics which are ever-changing in our own oceans with waves, disruption, underwater volcanic activity make seen with error atmosphere, the heat from the sun, etc. that we will never get a perfectly smooth planet unless mankind takes it upon himself to simplify his existence by getting rid of the moon, balancing out the planet like wheels on a bicycle by perhaps moving icebergs from the polls, relocating ground water, re-distributing mass or changing the heat in the ocean all of which we are not capable technologically yet in there would be significant consequences from other patterns if we did. The energy requirements to do such things are not currently within our realm, but we are close. We are close because of the computer age, the computing ability and the brilliant minds, which are unlocking the secrets of the universe. As we study the waves of gravity, time, light, energy, sound, the earth and the human mind we may find that everything is not is complicated as it appears but only looks complicated from our point of view in this current linear time period. Does this mean we can soon reverse our climate changes? Probably not, Earth will do that for us, this is how climate cycles work here. Does this mean we can modify the Mars atmosphere and landscape? Ah, terra forming and yes someday we will. It maybe sooner than you think; but do think on it. There will be human colonies on the Red Planet some day. |
