ABSTRACT
In the last 510 years the earth has experienced 5 major mass extinctions which has wiped over 70% of all species both plant and animal that have ever lived. It still remains uncertain what are the causes of these geologic disasters.
The question of whether extinction is a continuous process, with the rate increasing at times of mass extinctions, or whether it is episodic at all scales. If the latter is shown to be generally true, then species are at risk of extinction only rarely during their existence and catastrophism, in the sense of isolated events of extreme stress, is indicated.
In a larger context, paleontologists and Astrophysicists benefit from the research to know the solar system and its interaction with the galaxy which is contained of materials called ‘dust’ also known as dark matter, for predictions about its environmental effects on earth.
Scientists have used Hubble to observe the most distant stars and galaxies as well as the planets in our solar system in order to ascertain the reasons for these phenomenon
The visible universe-including Earth, the sun, other stars, and galaxies is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons bundled together into atoms. Perhaps one of the most surprising discoveries of the 20th century was that this ordinary or baryonic matter makes up less than 5 percent of the mass of the universe. The rest of the universe appears to be made of a mysterious, invisible substance (dark matter) is 25 percent and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy is 70 percent.
As the Earth passes through the disk it will sweep up and capture large numbers of dark-matter particles in its gravitational field and these particles will fall to the earth’s core where why will reach sufficient densities to annihilate each other heating the earth core by hundreds of degrees, over millions of years, the overheated core would belch gigantic plumes of magma up towards the surface, birthing gigantic volcanic eruptions that rip apart continents, alter sea levels and change the climate.
All the while comets perturbed by the solar system’s passage through the dark matter disk would be pounding the planet. Death would come from above and below
