I followed Junho’s simulation efforts on X last year and his work was quite impressive. He only focused on the ECDO theory, though, and was very strict in timeframe. I wanted to explore other theories and timing of the event to see how it would align.
Little did I know, this turned into a multi-month project with WAY TOO MUCH time invested. I did not give up and tonight I finally ran a simulation that nearly matches Junho’s. I ran all my tests on the ECDO theory hoping I could figure out all of the calculations and physics involved. I plan to take that and expand simulations into Ben Davidson’s model and a true polar wander model that I am fond of.
That said, I’m not sharing this anywhere yet so I figured I’d hit up general interest. It’s a pet project that I’ve labored a lot on here this year.
Note: This is a very early model. It’s just the first output that’s came close to expected results, so I am excited about it. I have a lot more work to do on the project overall and simulation accuracy will improve with each iteration.
While I am leaning towards this ECDO theory more and more, I am open to all theories simply because until we have observable data we are operating in darkness. However, zoomed in on North America (I live there) this type of model does tend to align with what we see in geological records.
I was pretty active in the Solar Killshot forum last year sharing my early work in this arena.
This map makes sense with the above early model due to the organic deposits piling up against the slopes of the continental divide
Due to the lack of annual rainfall to wash away the salt-laden inundation would likely produce this Great Basin of desertification.
However, I plan to continue running deeper mathematical calculations and physics approaches to improve these models greatly. This early simulation is running the absolute bare minimum and only takes about 5 minutes for my computer to complete. More accurate models will take days or even weeks of calculations. This first run breaks the Earth up into 181k individual cells, but by Tier 4 we’ll be trying to resolve 454 million. This will likely take months to work through on my end, but I’ll be happy to share my progress.
I plan to run models on Ben Davidson’s pole end points as well. Just starting with ECDO to ensure my math is aligning with the work Junho did. I finally reached that stage, so I can expand into any theory I want with this True Polar Wander Simulation software program I built from scratch.
