An astoundingly breathtaking revelation, for a time, solicitously withheld from the pubic, was revealed in the course of a comatose episode at the deathbed of Dr. Verdant Ivy, PH.D. The truly epiphantic discovery had been retained by the decedent, a renowned, but socially reclusive, authority on Planetary Natural Sciences and Solar System Seismology.
Reportedly, the dying scientist’s last utterance was cryptic: “Volume 3, “Gray Spots.” His part-time research fellow, then, excitedly took down the relevant volume from its prominent place on the research professor’s private bookshelf and, after some tedious deciphering of its arcane formulas and complex, byzantine notations, excitedly announced the thematic, earth-shaking discovery, one which literally overthrew previously accepted knowledge of our Solar System.
The discovery, amountig to an epiphanic change in many centuries of understanding concerning the origin of the Earth and its Solar System sibling, the Moon, initially appeared to lack verisimilitude, yet was definitively supported by the recorded decade of evidence of Dr, Ivy’s tecorded observsations and soon shook the academic world to its very core; disputing previous findings and accepted principles concerning the dynamicvs of the solar system.
To elucidate on the revolutionary, thematic discoveries of the decedent, it would seem useful to refer to the popularly known, earthly phenomenon of “Tree Rings.” As is widely known, tree rings are annual layers of wood, produced by trees that serve to reveal the tree’s age and environmental history. Each ring represents a year of growth, the relative presence of favorable, wet, or warm weather conditions, or, conversely, of harmful meteorological ambience.
Notably and contextually, it has been generally demonstrated that spores, seeds, rock particles, minerals, and ubiquitous debris are mutually exchanged between the Earth and the Moon, by reason of their (relatively) close planetary locations; the latter phenomenon of decades of intense material interest to Dr Ivy.
In fact,Dr Ivy had published several esoteric scientific papers, the result of long, solitary, and intense study, particularly of our Planet’s deciduous trees, most especially the Old English Oaks, Maple, and the Chestnut. His purposeful but unorthodox research had centered on the question of a possible interactive nexus, h between our barren solar neighbor, the Moon, and our lush Planet.
Of especial interest to him was the possible empirical significance of the mysterious, wavy, line variations in the computer-like lines circumscribing the layers of wood (the “rings”) and their conceivable indication of extant environmental conditions, natural events in lunar life, and/or the Satellite Planet’s natural, empirical dangers. Being trained in earthly mineralogy and Earth Science, his fundamental research was, ultimately directed to the origin of the stark differences between our life-productive Planet and the utter wasteland of ourLunar neighbor.
Over the years of his concentrated study, Dr. Ivy empirically took notice of, and noticed and recorded in his Vol. 3, the invariable commonality of identical grey-green stains in the interior of all of the moonrocks he was able to geologically split and analyse, which he feared was analogous to with his consistent and telling perception of primitively old rocks, infused with the chemical residue of age-old air and water pollution.
The local newspaper reported the cause of death to be a heart attack, possibly induced by a sudden occurrence of a sudden and frightening shock of unknown origin; however, it is notable that the decedent died, holding a newly harvested home-grown carrot, still soil- bearing, with a unique pattern of gray-green splotches.
The mysterious splotches were confirmed as to origin by analogous gray-green blemishes in Dr. Ivy’s inventory of small moonrocks in Dr.Ivy’s laboratory, indicating the observed lunar symptoms of polluted air and insalubrious atmosphere.
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