Länk - Kosmisk strålning ger en biodiversitetscykel på 62 miljoner år
Richard Muller, one of the UC Berkeley physicists who co-discovered the cycle, said Melott and his colleagues have come up with a plausible galactic explanation for the biodiversity cycle. Muller and Robert Rohde also speculated that our solar system’s movement through the galactic plane was behind the cycle, but the pair could not conceive of any reason why conditions on the north and south side of the galactic plane should differ. “That’s where they succeeded,” Muller said in a telephone interview. “They came up with something we didn’t think of, which puts an asymmetry in. I’m delighted they did that and I congratulate them.”
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