17th February 2012, 01:55 PM
loupiote Wrote:Reminds me of a book by Ren? Barjavel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_Peo...avel_novel)
It makes for an amazing novel, but not sure the author meant it as a scientific theory :p Apparently this story was inspired by a novel by H. Rider Haggard, who also liked to put wild theories in his novels but would (hopefully) have laughed them off in real life.
Interesting theory. But considering that the 1950s bomb testing show up as a spike in background radiation, such an event would also be detectable. Easy test, measure the radioactivity of deposits/rocks/ bones etc on either side of the supposed event.
Pretty sure the data already exists, and the answer is no.