Research

  • The Drowned Corridor Reconstructing Deep-Time Maritime Knowledge Along the Pacific Rim

    This paper (Downloadable at Zenodo) explores whether similarities in Pacific Rim megalithic engineering, maritime traditions, and coastal settlement logic may reflect a coherent late-Pleistocene maritime superculture rather than isolated regional developments. During the Last Glacial Maximum, lowered sea levels created extensive, resource-rich coastal plains that supported long-term stability, professional specialization, and shared technological heuristics. As…

  • Late-Pleistocene Pacific Maritime Superculture: Ecology, Engineering, and Collapse

    During the late Pleistocene, lowered sea levels created vast and resource-rich coastal plains around the Pacific Rim. These stable environments fostered long-term peace, professional specialization, and the emergence of shared technological grammars expressed in stoneworking, navigation, and settlement design. As glacial conditions intensified, abundance gave way to compression, mobility shifted from exploration to necessity, and…

  • Rhea’s Coherence Density Quantifying External Field Support in Saturn’s Mid-Distance Satellites

    Download from Zenodo Saturn’s moon Rhea presents a fundamental puzzle in satellite evolution: despite negligible internal heat generation, no intrinsic magnetic field, and ancient heavily cratered surfaces indicating minimal recent activity, Rhea maintains an organized exosphere with anomalous O₂/CO₂ chemistry, exhibits surface hydrazine suggesting active material transport, displays fresh tectonic fractures, and survived an enormous…

  • Enceladus: A Convergent Case for Current Extraterrestrial Life from Planetary Coherence and Biological Viability Analysis

    …Download from Zenodo This work applies the planetary coherence framework (full formalism: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17645297) to evaluate the habitability potential of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Using coherence density (ρc) and biological viability constant (K_ψ), we find that Enceladus reaches near-Earth organizational levels (ρc ≈ 0.89) despite its extremely small mass. This amplification arises from resonance-driven constraint-release efficiency tied to…

  • Iapetus’s Equatorial Ridge: Evidence for Ring Capture During the Nice Model Instability

    …..Download from Zenodo Saturn’s moon Iapetus hosts the tallest and most enigmatic mountain range in the solar system, aligned with the equator to within ±2° and exclusively on the moon’s dark leading side. We demonstrate that this ridge formed from the gradual collapse of a captured equatorial debris ring during the Nice model instability (~700…

  • Coherence Metrics and Gradient Dynamics Across Planetary and Galactic Scales: A Three-Paper Series

    This work is part of a three-paper series developing a unified framework for quantifying organized energy structures in astrophysical systems. The central construct, coherence density ρ_c, integrates magnetic, gravitational, thermal, and rotational observables into a dimensionless measure of planetary or stellar organization (Paper I). In Paper II, we derive a differential law, the RMAχτ Gradient…