The decades-old textbook version of Earth science is underlain by generations of models based upon assumptions, such as the assumption of whole-planet melting to explain core formation and the assumption of mantle convection to explain ocean floor topography. For forty years, instead of making assumption-based models, J. Marvin Herndon, Ph.D. has been making discoveries about the Earth that are securely anchored to the properties of matter and publishing them in world-class scientific journals: The consequence has been his recognizing that Earth's early formation as a Jupiter-like gas giant makes it possible to derive virtually all of the geological and geodynamic behavior of our planet, including the origin of mountains characterized by folding, the primary initiation of fjords and submarine canyons, the origin of continents and oceans, ocean floor topography, Earth's internal compositions, its previously unanticipated and potentially variable energy sources, the origin of its magnetic field, the origination of petroleum and natural gas deposits, and the non-anthropogenic basis of atmospheric carbon dioxide content. Furthermore, Herndon reveals the connections between Earth's origin and the basis of similarities and differences of other planets in our Solar System, how stars including our own ignite, and the reason why the multitude of galaxies display just a few prominent patterns of luminous stars. But science is not all this book is about. J. Marvin Herndon reveals how for decades flawed U. S. Government methodologies and practices have been doing what no foreign power or terrorist organization can do: Slowly undermining, corrupting and trivializing science and science education, driving America toward third world status in science, and allowing science to be hijacked by what he terms a malevolent political agenda which poses real threats to the well-being of life on this planet.
About the Author: J. Marvin Herndon (b. 1944) is an American interdisciplinary scientist, who earned his BA degree in physics in 1970 from the University of California, San Diego and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear chemistry in 1974 from Texas A&M University. J. Marvin Herndon was a post-doctoral apprentice to Hans E. Suess and Harold C. Urey in geochemistry and cosmochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. He is the President and CEO of Transdyne Corporation in San Diego, California. Profiled in 2003 in Current Biography, along with Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, William H. Rehnquist, White House chief of staff, Andrew H. Card, Jr., film director and screenwriter, Sofia Coppola and thirteen others, dubbed a "maverick geophysicist" by The Washington Post [The Washington Post, March 24, 2003, Page A06], and armed with a unique knowledge of the nature of science and the ways to make important discoveries, passed down through generations of master scientists, J. Marvin Herndon's professional life, as a technologist and as a scientist, has been a step-by-step logical progression of understanding and discovery, uncovering and posing corrections to deep-rooted mistakes in geophysics, in astrophysics, and in science management. His concept of a nuclear fission georeactor at Earth's center, the feature article, cover story of the August 2002 issue of Discover magazine, has been thoroughly vetted by the international scientific community. His work has been featured in news and magazine articles worldwide, for examples, from the Sunday Times of London to Japanese Playboy and from Science & Vie to Newton. In 1979, J Marvin Herndon realized and published a fundamentally different concept for the then-forty-year-old idea of the composition of Earth's inner core. Although praised by the inner core's discoverer, Inge Lehmann, the geoscience community collectively decided to pretend that Herndon's concept had never been published instead of challenging or accepting the idea. That trapped the geoscience community in the circa 1940 understanding of Earth's interior while allowing Herndon to progress logically from one discovery to the next without competition revealing Earth's totally different origin, interior composition, energy sources, geodynamic behavior, its currently increasing earthquake activity and non-human-caused additions of CO2 to the atmosphere.