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August 25, 2006 - Now a new book by science and history writer Andrew Collins provides stunning evidence that cosmic rays not only accelerated evolution, but were responsible also for the emergence of both civilization and, incredibly, even organized religion.
In THE CYGNUS MYSTERY, published by Watkins Publishing on October 15, Collins shows that Palaeolithic cave artists depicted the Cygnus, constellation of the swan, on the walls of a 17,000 year old cave at Lascaux in Southern France.
At Gobekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey, an 11,500-year-old stone temple - the oldest anywhere in the world – was found to be aligned towards this same constellation.
It is the same story with ancient stone and earthen structures worldwide, from the bird effigy mounds of North America to the Olmec centres of Mexico, the Incan sacred city of Cuzco, the Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, the Hindu temples of India to Avebury, the largest stone circle in Europe - all reflect an age-old interest in Cygnus.
Did the arrival on earth of these unique cosmic particles from deep space really accelerate evolution?
‘Ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica show clear evidence of a huge increase in cosmic rays reaching the Earth in Palaeolithic times,’ Collins asserts. ‘This was right at the time when the transition began from hunter gatherer to sophisticated farmer and agriculturist.’
‘Not only was evolution accelerated at this time, but organised religions take their root from the impact that cosmic rays from Cygnus had on the ancient mindset’
Evidence for the presence deep underground of exotic cosmic rays coming from a quasi-stellar source called Cygnus X-3 was first reported in the 1980s by proton decay detectors in both Europe and the USA. The NASA-backed announcement in 2000 that Cygnus X-3 is the galaxy’s first confirmed ‘blazar’ - either a black hole or neutron star - producing powerful jets of particles directed towards us, like some unimaginable cosmic gun barrel, now makes it the most likely source of cosmic rays reaching earth.
That cosmic rays changed evolution is supported by top astronomers Aden and Marjorie Meinel of the Meinel Institute of Pasadena, California. ‘Paleoanthropologists kind of gasp at the idea,’ said Aden, who working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1980s helped launch space-based telescopes like the Hubble. ‘The idea of cosmic rays significantly affecting early hominids and other species is pretty dramatic, but there's some really compelling evidence to support the idea.’
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This statement is for immediate release. Andrew Collins is available now for exclusive press interviews. Contact Vicky Hartley at Watkins Publishing on +44.1962.841570 (01962 841570) or email vicky ( @ ) dbairdpub dot co.uk.
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