Scientific digs tells us Beryllium-10 deposits spiked thirty-three thousand years ago and sixty thousand years ago in the Antarctic. The meaning for this that scientists conjecture is at those times there may have been interstellar clouds that infiltrated the Solar System and radiated the Earth, responsible for havoc on its habitability for life.

As a science fiction writer I take notice that the digs were at the South Pole rather than the North, where the current preoccupation with the thinning of the ozone layer is. This makes the fiction writer in me conjecture that at least one of these times there was also a switch in Earth’s polarity resulting in the current polarity. That is why I have Dr. Moreau worried that the Earth’s polarity may shift again. But am I advancing fiction, or a scientific theory?

Stewart sent me a link of an article by Gary P. Zank of UD’s Bartol Research Institute, who earned a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1993 and a Zeldovich Medal in 1996. The article explains his research into the threat of interstellar clouds. Note that the cloud The Infinity Option -Be More Than You Are!  is the Local Fluff, which has a wisp already in contact with our Solar System. The seventy year deadline is something I created for the benefit of the story. But note Zank does not deny the possibility of a crisis within seventy years. In fact his research establishes a breathing cycle of the Solar System’s magnetic barrier every eleven years when it is possible for hydrogen to enter the Solar System and wreck havoc on Earth’s habitability.

In The Infinity Option -Be More Than You Are! story the group of scientists organized by Dr. Irene Moreau suggest a solution to the threat — a worldwide network array of super electromagnets poised to defend Earth. That is my own postulate based on the observation that I attribute in the story to Dr. Moreau, that the operation of cyclotrons, which operate the world’s largest magnets, accompany cooling of the atmosphere when and where they operate–synthetically augmenting magnetic protection as the Earth accomplishes to screen out harmful excessive energy from the Sun and other radiation.

The neuro science in the book is based on experiments recited by  Sharon Begley, Train Your Mind Change Your Brain –how a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves-a groundbreaking collaboration between neuroscience and Buddhism, Ballentine Books, New York 2008.

On background of the composition of the universe in the book the story is consonant with Brian Green, The Elegant Universe, First Vintage Books, New York, 1999, 203 and Paul Davies, God & the New Physics, Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 1983.

For the death/near death experience I used and the book is consistent with Michael B. Sabom, Recollections of Death A Medical Investigation, Harper and Row, New York, 1982 and Lewis R. Aiken, Dying, Death and Bereavement, 4^th Ed., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, London, 2001.

Groundbreaking work which I predict will eventually win Nobel Committee notice done by Grover, Ahn, Weinacht, Backsbaum, Myer, Kwait and Hughes demonstrates mathematically that the information that contains for want of a better term the DNA of the universe can be contained in light waves and thusly spread throughout the universe is not only possible, it is plausible. The book’s story portrays interstellar transport of human DNA by light waves since ignition based propellants simply won’t work as desired in hydrogen clouds. Ignition rocket ships in hydrogen clouds would explode into smithereens since hydrogen is the most volatile element in nature. I recite only two of their articles.  Ahn, Weinacht, and Bucksbaum “Quantum Information Storage and Retrieval” Science, V. 287 21 Jan 2000, pp. 463-5.Meyer, Kwiat, Hughes, Bucksbaum, Ahn, and Weinacht “Does Rydberg State Manipulation Equal Quantum Computation?” Proc Nat’l Acad Sci USA 13 Mar 2001 2973-2978