The Crustal Displacement Theory
A characteristic of a zombie ideologue is to mindlessly reiterate the talking points, like a skipping record. No matter what you say or what your questions are, the zombie ideologue will simply restate his talking points. Data input is no longer possible because the zombie has been disconnected from an interface with consciousness. It has no feedback receptors.
If you are a newcomer to this website, start with the disaster scenario depicted in the movie “2012” starring John Cusack.
In that movie, Charles Hapgood’s “Crustal Displacement Theory” figures prominently in the global catastrophe. The movie does not clearly state the cause of the disaster; however, the leading character seems to discover that it is related to a change in the Sun’s radiation output which has heated the Earth’s mantle and unlocked it from the crust. The crust slides something like 90 degrees to form new equatorial and polar regions. Of course, the slide is violent with geophysical disasters of unimaginable scale. Much like the scenarios discussed on this website.
This scenario is different than one which involves a physical flip of the Earth or a tilt or roll which may cause this disaster which we have discussed elsewhere. In the Crustal Displacement Theory, the mass of the Earth continues its rotation. It’s just that Earth’s crustal shell – or “skin” as some would put it – a mere 40 miles thick, shifts to find a new equilibrium.
Ben Davidson with his “Suspicious Observers” group embraces a Crustal Displacement Theory, but connects the science to an imminent solar nova.
Douglas Vogt, who perhaps more than anyone, is responsible for the current Solar Nova discussion. He has argued the science of it for an entire generation, going all the way back to the 1970s, and thinks that Chan Thomas – whom he criticizes to the point of parody as a CIA operative – wrote his book (or books) for the CIA to deflect or derail the “Solar Nova Hypothesis.”
Vogt believes that Earth’s rotation stops and then reverses at this nova event which represents a heliophysical and geophysical reset phenomenon occurring every 12,068 years. The exactness of his 12,068 year calculations is based upon the 88-year Gleissberg Cycle which is composed of smaller 11-year cycles and are a part of larger cycles in the Sun. He believes that 12,068 represents the larger solar cycle.
For various reasons, Vogt is opposed to the Crustal Displacement Theory, but principally because it violates his Theory of Multi-Dimensional Reality in which the Sun, the Earth, and all matter are the result of the action of central “modulation” points. These modulation points are a metaphysical phenomenon in which “information” becomes our physical reality when they emit frequency.
Douglas Vogt thinks he has permanently slain the crustal displacement dragon and buried it into oblivion in his most recent YouTube lectures:
https://youtu.be/JSDaKoT6GHY and here.
While Vogt’s theory is yet to be proved, Hapgood himself discovered that similar crustal displacement theories were entertained by scientists and natural philosophers from previous generations . . . and were disproved:
When Hapgood delved deeper, however, he learned that some 19th century scientists, including Lord Kelvin and Giovanni Schiaparelli, had proposed ideas similar to his own. But they were persuaded to drop their inquiries due to strenuous objections raised by Clerk Maxwell and George Darwin (Charles Darwin’s son), among others. Maxwell and Darwin believed that the crust of the earth was immovable due to the stabilizing effect of the earth’s equatorial bulge. The spinning earth behaves like a gyroscope and owes its stability to the bulge around the equator, which is caused by centrifugal force.
Mark H. Gaffney Deep History and The Ages of Man, 2022 Second Edition, p. 13
Earth’s oblateness mitigates a movement of the crust.
[Gaffney, however, presents convincing evidence that Einstein embraced Hapgood’s theory. On this, Vogt’s claim to the contrary seems to be in error.]
Gaffney’s book is a very useful study on this topic, and has incorporated James McCanney’s science into the discussion.
While, according to McCanney, there is no internal mechanism which can cause a crustal shift, he has acknowledged that one has occurred up to 30 degrees sometime during human history. Principally, his personal investigation of Mayan ruins has proved to his satisfaction that ancient monuments indicate a polar shift. Their North/South alignment is off. Since McCanney does not believe in plate tectonics, this shift would have had to occur from an outside source: a planetary sized comet.
Continental drift could explain crustal movement of the tectonic plates, as could the expansion of the size of the Earth. But these processes as they are currently explained by scientists seem to be too slow and cannot explain the geophysical disasters recorded by the ancients. Immanuel Velikovsky’s works should be consulted for sources to these ancient legends. For Velikovsky, Earth’s rotation was stopped by a passing planet and could have been flipped, which would explain how the ancients claimed that the Sun once rose in the West and set in the East.
The reason why this theory will not die is because of Major White’s Arctic expedition after the Second World War which revealed alternating polar/tropical epochs in the Arctic. Since then, evidence of former ice sheets have been found in South Africa and tropical India. Then, there was the discovery of vast coal deposits – actually “mountains of coal” – in Antarctica by Admiral Byrd (Gaffney).
Facts are facts.
Vogt has further buttressed his argument against the theory with the claim that it was a CIA effort at disinformation to divert attention away from the true cause of these recurring catastrophes: the solar nova.
It is not clear what the government’s motivation might have been, except perhaps to prevent panic. But during the decades immediately following WWII, Americans were constantly terrorized by the prospects of nuclear war. That itself could have induced panic.
However, a nuclear war is preventable, while a solar nova is not. At the time, the devastation caused by a nova did not seem survivable as it does now. So, perhaps, these guardians of civilization felt society would cease to function from the malaise which this scenario would induce. We can only speculate.
Vogt targets Hapgood and Chan Thomas and implies that variations of the belief, such as that held by Ben Davidson, are also in error.
A version of Chan Thomas’ book has been published to this website, not because I believe it is an accurate theory, but because like Hapgood, it is a part of the discussion. Vogt acknowledges Hapgood’s scholarship but has a much lower opinion of Thomas.
Dr. August Dunning has produced a defense of Vogt’s view using electromagnetic science:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342656389_The_End_of_The_World-_2046_solar_reset_nova
The pdf is not a text, but rather an excellent video production.
to be continued
Part 3: Are the “Flat Earthers” lost to us?
JWS – 10/15/23
