21st February 2012, 08:29 PM
Jack Wrote: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.
I seem to remember he had some kind of semi-plausible answer to that problem, unfrotunately time and the fog and haze of alcohol have erased it from my memory. I did have a digital copy of his "best-seller" he was writing but lent it to a colleague, I think I'll hunt her down and ask for it back.