In this blog post, I’m going to keep tayloring my writing and consolidating research, chart/maintain my progress, use this as a climbing route, so to speak. Maybe it will end up being a series of posts. I’m hoping to publish a short paper through the Geological Society of America’s journal, Geology, which only publishes short papers (max 4 pages).
https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/Pubs/geology/home.aspx

So far, I have not found any information online about the topic. This may be a genuinely new idea, and it took a pair of fresh, untrained eyes to see it. I will try to guard the project a little bit, because it would be a shame to have credit stolen, and I honestly want the credit, but I don’t intend on making a career out of it. Ultimately, it’s exciting to get the information out there, and it should get out into the mainstream. If the idea gets kidnapped by another researcher, I suppose it would be partly disappointing to me, but moreover it would be sad because the beauty of the theory goes to someone’s pedigree rather than coming from the free jetstream of an open mind. New insights don’t have to come from being entrenched in academia. Knowledge is still fair game to anyone who cares to learn and explore. There is still infinite information to discover, and nobody can pretend to be an adult. All we can do is attain adolescence, the acquaintance with endless-becoming, ever-rebeginning, infinite development. I want to be seen and listened to, because I throw my entire life into learning and thinking. I simply want to be loved for who I am. It’s not the pedestal I want. Big picture topics are my bread and butter, which people take to be pretentious. Imagine if you were a kind of huge, flying animal that lived in the upper atmosphere and filter fed on clouds, like a sky whale. People on the ground could see how big and high up you are and think of you relative to their small world and small bodies. You would be “bigger” and “higher” to them. You would represent giantism to them. But if you tried to be a human, they would see you as trying to be dominant, even though it’s simply in your nature to soar. The freedom of the sky is tempting for the power-hungry, and can be used as a weapon for dominance—air superiority. (The freedom of the atmosphere literally grades into the freedom of the mind, as mediums of transportation, and vice versa.) But it also is an opportunity for joy and creativity. (See Laputa: Castle in the Sky.) When the sky is respected, everyone does well. I digress

It seems so obvious—heavier parts of tectonic plates squeeze down through the Earth’s liquid interior and produce an opposite reaction on the opposite side of the planet. There are significant antipodal correlations between convergent and divergent plate margins, as well as hotspots and large mountain ranges. The eureka quality of this is energizing.

To publish through Geology, I will need to:

• Write a cover letter, arguing why
• Write the paper
• Develop an effective, elegant diagram or several diagrams conveying the theory
• Submit the paper
• Go through a review process

I think I will try to get pointcloud data of major plate margins and geological features, project them to their antipodes in excel, then measure correlations and translational symmetries. It won’t be hard to make this a short paper.


July 16. 2023
Gorda