by Shaun Lawton
I am a creative writer and an amateur astronomer
without a telescope. Here's my poetic
idea I like to refer to as the Organic Supposition of Planet Formation (as
opposed to the standard gravitational theory and alternative conjectures such
as the recently posited electrical theory of planetary formation). In my organic hypothesis, our local star
produces all the planets, birthing them like seeds. Over epochal periods of time, they gradually
(indiscernible to our mayfly-like existences) move farther and farther away
from their stellar mother...each one eventually replacing the spot formerly
occupied by their elder sibling. It’s a straightforward premise which I don’t
believe has been ruled out as of yet.
This proposition
would offer one reason how Mars now contains traces of evidence for life that
may have once flourished back in time when it formerly occupied the space
Earth currently does; and furthermore, it may clarify how all the spat-out
and spent "planet-husks" end up as plutinos and twotinos, etc.,
arriving into the vast scattered disc and Kuiper belt, eventually to culminate
in the planetary graveyard comprising the Oort Cloud. In this hypothesis, Earth
itself is destined to take the place of Mars. Then, after passing through the
remnants of the asteroid belt, it eventually undergoes the celestial transmutation
into its “Jupiter-phase,” the first of four gas-giant developmental stages.
I
speculate that at this chapter of our organic and fourth-dimensional evolution,
the planetoids our Sun gives birth to begin to develop the various intervals of
their hydrogen/helium atmospheres, which invariably pass through Saturn's state,
Uranus's stage, and finally, after reaching Neptune's glorious, frozen apotheosis,
they are destined to complete their considerable and immense mortality and join
Pluto (in its “hospice stage,” if you will) and then the inevitable termination
– to be ejected into the graveyard of hundreds of thousands of planets our
local star has spawned and will continue to for as long as it remains fertile. This
speculation is one of the reasons why I think of the Oort Cloud as a sort of
inverse eggshell; because it signifies the epochally formed exterior of the
cosmic mausoleum being built even while we live and breathe here on Earth
during this tertiary stage of our first trimester of celestial emergence.