How old is the Earth and what happens to it?

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More on Mass Extinctions

Evidence is now pretty startling that impacts are the root cause of most evolutionary change:

What does this say about the idea of destiny? Do we control our fate?

Scientific Milestones: (1875 - 1900)

Note the rapid progress in many areas. Also note, that for all intents and purposes the colonization of the American West was done by 1875 the native culture had been thoroughly surpressed and the railroad had arrived.

• 1873 The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell publishes his work Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism which explains the basic laws of electromagnetism and predicts things such as radio waves.

  1876 Louis Pasteur discovers anaerobic organisms in beer that send it bad and which cannot live in oxygen.

  1884 The prime meridian is set through Greenwich, England.

  1884 The first steam turbine generator for making electricity is developed.

  1885 Louis Pasteur discovers vaccination for rabies.

  1888 The German physicist Heinrich Hertz produces and detects radio waves for the first time.

  1894 The fossil remains of an early human are found in Java by Dutch scientist Marie Eughne Dubois. Dubois calls his discovery "Pithecanthropus erectus", but it is now known as "Homo erectus".

  1895 Grace Chisholm Young receives a doctorate in mathematics in Germany - the first woman to get a doctorate by regular examination processes.

  1896 Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius links the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with global temperatures and suggests that the ice ages were the result of low carbon dioxide levels.

  1899 J J Thomson measures the charge on the electron.

Using electrons as communication will now change the entire world in the 20th century

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