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  “Mr. Lawmaker, what you have known is the law of the land, but you don’t know the geologic structure of this planet, how it started to exist,” the young fellow emphasized.

  “You’re degrading me, you bloody bastard! I know its origin, you stupid idiot! It was created by the God of the Rev’rend in just six days!” shouted the lawmaker at a high pitch.

  This time the young gentleman had developed a pillar of confidence. He wasn’t afraid of anybody who would confront him. The reverend has remained silent; he prayed that this young fellow could move mountains.

  “I do hope that none of you here falls to the category of the people who junked the notion that the Earth is just another planet that revolves around the sun. This astonishing declaration of Copernicus was then considered blasphemous, without a telescope during the ancient time. Later on, Christopher Columbus came to the rescue and proved the notion that the Earth was round by sailing west and returning east. . .. It’s very hard, then, to convince these people to accept new ideas, because their mind is limited up to the horizon. Let me quote the late great philosopher named Plato: ‘It is easy to forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the tragedy is for a man who is afraid of the light.’”

  Many were offended by this remarked, and one of them, Colonel Krispov, lost control and collared Mark, hoisting him upward, his feet dangling off the floor. “I’ll warn you, asshole! This is a serious business. If we find out that your ideas are unreasonable, we’ll send you to the jailhouse and you can languish there the rest of your life! Is that clear!?” warned Colonel Krispov, and he let loose the young fellow.

  “Yes, I accept your challenged; it’s the future of the next generation at stake here, not yours! . . . A decade and a half ago, there was an old man who was here during the absence of the emperor who during that time was on Jupiter. The old man made warnings regarding the Earth’s predicament. The majority ignored him. Politics interceded and played a dirty role. What some of you people did was orchestrated some faults, enough for the old man to stay in jail, eventually, he was tied in a turbo-powered sled and banished towards the icy wilderness in the east. Hoping that his natural earth-shaking revelation would die a natural death. . .. I don’t know how you’ve able to live with your stupidity. . .. Oh, what a shame; history will judge you people."

  The young fellow’s revelations had sent shock waves through the hall. The reverend was smiling; at last they had encountered their nemesis. Their Achilles heel had been exposed.

  “May I go on, Your Royal Highness?"

  “Everybody keep silence. . .. Give the floor to this young fellow. . .. His idea might be of great importance.”

  “Thank you very much, Your Royal Highness. . .. Your Royal Highness, the innards of the Earth is precisely like an open hearth furnace.” He went closer to the hanging blackboard with a piece of chalk in his hand. Then he drew a big circle concentric with series of smaller circles. In the center he labeled it as a great crystal; then he enveloped it in pressurized gas layers, followed by the molten magma and earth crust layer, subdivided into sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock, which contains a blanket of ground water and great oceans and seas.

  “This is a great crystal; the source of the Earth’s perpetual energy that has been able this planet keeps orbiting in the solar system. ... Basically, the Earth’s inner core is intensively stratified. At the innermost is the fusion geo-reactor known as the inner-inner core or sub-core. It is the domain of the primordial hydrogen and helium ion solution which function as the fusion geo-reactor. It is encapsulated by a thick 610 km across glassy sphere and enwrapped by an invisible membrane of dark matter. Later reactions at the sub-core have transformed light elements into heavier elements. These heavy elements have jam-packed the zirconium silicate lattice inside the sub-core’s outward region.

  The transition between the glassy sphere and the subsequent 1,220 km across solid shell encasement is a thin layer of fluid slurry or dense magnetized plasma that functions as a lubricant. Forming the base of the 1,220 km across solid shell are nickel-iron crystals. Over it is a thick uranium shell which contains a significant concentration of highly fissile uranium-235 that functions as the main fission geo-reactor.

  Next is the thick solid nickel silicide region being populated with heavy concentrations of iron-loving, highly siderophile elements: gold, platinum, iridium, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, and osmium. Likewise, high melting point refractory elements are highly abundant, namely, hafnium, tantalum, tungsten, titanium, molybdenum, vanadium, and zirconium, including the bulk of iron-nickel, graphite, and a paltry amount of sulfur.

  This largely solid metallic region is occupied as well with close-knit clusters of massive ore bodies of uranium-235, and fissionable uranium-238 or generally it formed as nuclear reactor zones. More than 30 percent of the bulk of uranium ore bodies is fissile uranium-235. These radioactive heavy elements had leached out from mother planet convulsive, or reproductive, region, the core/mantle boundary (CMB), and bonded with the nickel silicide beds and formed into the inner core. Aside from uranium-235 and uranium-238, there are other heat-producing heavy elements as well, such as thorium-232, neptunium-237, and potassium among others, being circumscribed by graphite and nickel silicide shells largely jam-packed with iron-nickel crystals.

  In this solid Fe-Ni shell, primordial helium and hydrogen formed solid solutions and sub-lattice bubbles that function as a coolant or a moderator for a runaway geo-reactor. Overlying this solid sphere is the thick casing of largely zirconium silicate and substantial quantities of continuously supplied, neutron-rich radioactive fission products like plutonium. Moreover, it is insulated by a 2,400 km across solid silicate shield.

  The Earth’s inner core’s peripheral armoring is further overlaid by interacting liquid metallic hydrogen. Hydrogen becomes metallic when enormously intense pressure of more than 3 mega-bars are applied, wherein it behaves as a good electrical conductor. The hydrogen isotopes are likewise incorporated beyond the inner core which further augmented the high pressure, that further accelerates a fission reaction. Basically, the inner core geo-reactors generate extreme heat that propels charged particles which produce the magnetic fields.

  Likewise, the inner core is enveloped by liquid rocky silicate materials, largely enriched with iron-nickel, siderophile, and actinide elements. Draping the liquid outer core is a significant presence of iridium coating in composite with other refractory metals as well as thick plasma. Among the rare refractory elements embedment at the inner core is tungsten. As the core is heated, this rare element emits a brilliant light. These inner core dual core manifolds, function as the heat generating unit of the central core, that enables the planet’s driving mechanism to move forward.

  At the height of the horrible nuclear exchanged, the entire Earth was heavily peppered by nuclear explosions, the earth’s innards deeply groaned. Consequently, it generated subsequent fluid hammer effect or vacuum implosion, a sort of deep explosive charged around the inner core. Subsequently, propagating violent hydraulic shock waves inside the Earth. Accordingly, it spawned high-density, expanding plasmatic waves heaving quasi-radially outwards. Hence, the high-density thermal waves’ overwhelming dynamic impact causes both the Earth crustal shell and the solid inner core to be intensively rifted.

  Afterwards, at the periphery of the thick, liquid iron outer core, a violent eddy region developed. Within the inner solid core realm, mainly the uranium - and thorium-powered nuclear furnaces were extensively shattered, eventually nipped out by the rigorous high-density, turbulent vortex churning activities. As a consequence, the central core endured severe mechanical damaged. Likewise, the sub-core or the great crystal fusion geo-reactor survive shortly, eventually, it has collapsed, plucked out and dispersed below the lower mantle. At the moment, the Earth got her paltry energy from the Earth’s near surface lithospheric fission geo-reactors.

  How long our planet’s continental shells shall remain the protective shield of the entire Earth? Nobo
dy knows. How long it could withstand to the impending gravitational collapse…. However, if the Earth’s innards would be finally depressurized, surely, the entire planetary crustal shell would eventually succumb to the abrupt loosening of the major continental rifts.

  “Is there an available source for that lost energy, young man?” a mestiza asked.

  “Could you have some patience, ma’am? Because it will take a long and tedious explanation before you can grasp what’s in my mind."

  “I understand you, kid."

  Then the young fellow looked for an empty cardboard box and found one and placed it upside down on top of the polished dolomite table and glanced around to a calm, unheeding audience.

  “Your Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen, I’ll show you a very simple demonstration. . .. Look!” He held his palm open as if it were holding something of lightweight. “What’s on my palms?”

  “Nothing, kid!” shouted a lawmaker.

  Using his left hand, the kid lifted the empty box and showed to them that it was empty and then dropped it upside down on top of the table and slowly lifted it at one side, accommodating his right palm as if it were holding something and placing it inside the box and in an instant pulling his right hand out at once simultaneously stepped backward. Slowly, he faced the lawmakers and asked, “And now I ask you, what's inside of that cardboard box?"

  “OK, we’ve got some magic here. . .. Either it’s a white rabbit or a white pigeon,” a man called Siegfred answered, associated with simultaneous laughter.

  “What a funny show, in this hour of deep trouble, the reverend has ushered to us,” was Colonel Krispov’s unwelcome remarked.

  Determined not to be intimidated by his detractors, the young fellow approached a physicist.

  “Sir, I know you are a respectable man of science. Would you mind telling them what’s inside that box?”

  “Yes, there’s something inside that box!” came a quick response by the professor.

  Someone whispered, “Has the professor gone mad?”

  The professor wanted to settle the puzzle, so he stood up and came nearer to the box. “As I said, this box contains something; it's a three-letter word. . .. A . . . I . . . R!” echoed the professor, simultaneously smashing the box with his palm. The box landed in front of the lawmakers.

  “The professor is right; it indeed contains air. I don’ t know, if there’s anyone else who would like to dispute this. . .. Anyone else?”

  Nobody responded.

  “Then let’s go back to air. Air is life; air is matter. May I quote this universal law? ‘Energy can’t be created nor destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to another.’ In the universe there are three states of matter, namely, liquid, gas, and solid."

  He scribbled on the board. “And it can be transformed from gases to liquid, then from liquid to solid, or vice versa. Take for example, this phenomenon in our midst, the fusion of hydrogen and oxygen. We’ve got a compound of rainwater, then frozen below zero degrees centigrade it will produce an ice cube. . .. Then take this other phenomenon, bear in mind that air is composed of several gases; the collision of low-pressure clouds would result in lightning and thunder. Lightning is another source of energy. If we’ve only time, perhaps we can utilize lightning energy,” the young fellow explained.

  The emperor was convinced that the kid was trying to let everybody understand everything in sequence and anticipated that something big would be unloaded by this young fellow.

  “What you gonna do, kid? In order to restore the lost energy, we shall catch thunderbolts?” Siegfred tried to intimidate the young man again.

  “For the benefits of my detractors, Albert Einstein once said, ‘We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive!’ And we shall explore some new frontiers in our present predicament," and the young fellow glanced at his detractors, then approached the backboard and erased what had been written there.

  “Now we shall explore deeper the hidden mystery of the universe, its cosmogenesis. . .. In the beginning there was nothing in the undersea of space. . .. It was totally dark-”

  “Then there was light!" the lawmaker interrupted again.

  “That is according to the teaching of the rev’rend,” Siegfred remarked.

  “Please give the kid a chance to explain it.” the emperor interceded.

  “We’ll consider this blackboard as a minute part of the infinite space with nothing physically visible in it. It’s totally dark, but if our pair of naked eyes possessed a super mega-vision scanner that had the capability to distinguish even the invisible color of the wind, perhaps you would confirm that this serene celestial space isn’t empty after all and jump to the bizarre conclusion that in the beginning gases existed. . .. We then could figure out its cosmo-physical structure. Some sort of anomaly: some portion was a domain of gases while vast space has a high percentage of empty space; it’s a vacuum. In other words, gases were not homogeneously distributed in the infinite space. Gases do not stay in one particular space alone: they move and traverse along a major space fault or a vast conduit that has formed as a barrier between the pressurized gas flow and the void of space.

  “Speaking of barriers, let me show you one example in the hydrographic survey of the estuary, the mouth of a river; engineers have been able to establish the profile of the thin layer of brackish water that forms the boundary between fresh and salt waters by means of echo sounding. In this method, high-frequency supersonic sound waves are produced in the boat and transmitted to the river or seabed, then reflected back to the sending instrument, and the sound waves are recorded by a stylus on a moving strip of profile paper. With this principle, the space based astrophysicists and astronomers has successfully obtained reflections in outer space, including the dreaded forty-mile Earth’s atmosphere. In this barrier no gas can escape or any object, even a spaceship, will get burned. Passing through the Earth corridor would require a minimal tangential slope orbit in order to escape this barrier. . ..

  “If we consider the geological deposition of one of the Earth’s precious metals, let’s say gold in the Earth’s earliest stage of development, a major volcanic eruption had taken place, all kinds of metallic minerals had been brought up to the Earth surface, but since gold was a heavy metal, it went downward, penetrating some rock strata, but would find itself at a dead end when it came in contact with the major quartz veins’ wall, and the tendency is, if the vein is sloping, it will continue moving and stop only upon contact with another strike of crisscrossing quartz veins and would create a pocket of major gold deposition called a mother lode. So, the same with the fossilized fuel and natural gas trapped by a fine grain sedimentary rock underneath the ocean floor from which even air couldn’t escape. . ..

  “Apparently, if we presume that this huge gas pocket was trapped by the wall barrier that had formed into an intergalactic elongated balloon in the perpetual cooling of the infinite space-and we shall consider this principle: ‘gases when compressed will become hot’, the giant elongated balloon will definitely be compressed by the cooling of the surrounding infinite space. The gas amalgam then will become hotter until it will develop into a violent heat and the continuous friction between the barrier and the gases will eventually create a fast-spinning ball of fire. Some gases have solidified into individual grains and evolved into biological cell walls of brilliant nacre . . . and transformed into a giant radioactive spheroid that revolves about an axis and generates a powerful energy. . .. There’s not one, but many spheroids were also formed in succession. . .. The combined energy of these spheroids would be enough to creep the end of the elongated barrier; thus, the outermost spheroid then would be ejected from this cocoon and would streak into a dark interstellar space, and presto a star is born!

  “After a short while, the young fellow faced the assemblage for comment, but nobody dared to interrupt. Even his chief detractor, Siegfred, the general attorney remained silent. “In this cool interstellar space, a sizable
amount of gas clumps whirled around the bright spheroid. . .. The continuous accumulation of gases lost the luster of this spheroid. . .. eventually, chemical and physical reactions took place. The spheroid now has transformed into a slow revolving sticky mud ball. Intense gas pressure caused the sticky ball to expand and threaten to burst off, but a tremendous amount of hydrogen and oxygen gas was enough to form into a water barrier that neutralized the effects of too much heat, and above the surface it was gifted by valuable gas that contains 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, small quantities of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, rare gases such as argon, krypton, xenon and neon.

  “Moreover, the presence of the living bacteria that have intermarried and transformed into different genetic species. . .. Subsequently, the mud ball continues to expand until some strata have been hardened and formed into a high mountain peak and the sticky mud has dished out a salty water that seeks its own level and forms into a great ocean and seas. The pressurized gas has found an exhaust, in the offshore and onshore volcanic crater, and of course the major continental faults serve as a pressure relief valve. . ..

  “Successively, another ball of fire exited from the elongated gargantuan intergalactic silo and also caught a tremendous amount of gas. The continuous accumulation of gases has also blanketed its brilliant luster and solidified into a sticky mud ball. The intense gas pressure buildup below has again threatened to blow up this infant planet. The land surface was relatively rough. Moment comes, when the sticky mud ball reached its point of rupture. . .. The limited quantity of water had little significance from the simultaneous seismic explosion, living behind a barren, perforated hive . . . thereafter a continuous ejection of the brilliant spheroid, has also transformed into different sizes of planets and the absence of tremendous amounts of water has likewise turned its surface into an environment of a thousand craters. . .. I suppose . . . the first one was the luckiest planet of them all; it was gifted with wonderful surroundings. . ..