A Vanished World: Exploring the Silurian Hypothesis and Earth's Hidden Histories
On a planet called Earth, over 7 billion people were bustling about their daily lives. Each year, tens of millions were born, and tens of millions died, leaving traces of their existence in the air, water, soil, and even space. Yet, these signs would not last forever. In a few hundred years, our buildings would crumble, our stone monuments, plastic, Styrofoam, and even the evidence of our nuclear endeavors would fade away. This realization led to an intriguing question: How could we be sure that we were the first advanced civilization on Earth? According to the Silurian Hypothesis, we couldn't. This hypothesis posed a fascinating premise that perhaps, long before humans, there might have been other advanced civilizations that left no trace for us to find. The idea of the Silurian Hypothesis was inspired by an episode of Doctor Who, where intelligent reptilian creatures called Silurians awakened from 400 million years of hibernation due to nuclear testing. While this was a work of f...