The MISSING Billion Years: Earth's Greatest COLD CASE

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The Unsolved Science Files

Byte & Pieces

36 episodes

5 days ago

Every star, every cell, every thought you've ever had is just the beginning of the story. We live on a tiny, well-lit island surrounded by a vast, dark ocean of things we don't know. This is the show that dives in.

Welcome to The Unsolved Science Files, your guide to the most mind-bending questions at the absolute frontier of human knowledge. Everyday, we investigate one of science's great "known unknowns" and break it down in under 25 minutes. No fluff, no impenetrable jargon—just pure, distilled awe.

We’re not just talking about science; we're exploring the very nature of reality, consciousness, and our place in the cosmos. We tackle questions like:

What existed before the Big Bang?
Where does consciousness come from?
Are we alone in the universe? (The Fermi Paradox)
What is the mysterious Dark Matter that holds our galaxies together?

If you're endlessly curious about the mysteries of the universe and want to feel a little smarter and a lot more amazed, this is the podcast you've been searching for.Hit Subscribe, and let's get curious.

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What existed before the Big Bang?
Where does consciousness come from?
Are we alone in the universe? (The Fermi Paradox)
What is the mysterious Dark Matter that holds our galaxies together?

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The MISSING Billion Years: Earth's Greatest COLD CASE

The Unsolved Science Files

39 minutes

1 month ago

The MISSING Billion Years: Earth's Greatest COLD CASE

Imagine opening a history book to find a billion pages violently ripped out. That's not a metaphor. It's exactly what geologists found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and it’s the greatest unsolved mystery on Earth.

This is the story of the "Great Unconformity," a jaw-dropping gap in the geological record where over a billion years of our planet’s history have simply vanished. We'll take you to the floor of the Grand Canyon, where ancient Precambrian rock touches stone a billion years younger, with nothing in between. So, what happened in this "Missing Billion Years"? Was it a planetary-scale crime scene?

We'll investigate the two lead suspects in this deep time mystery. Was the evidence scoured away by colossal glaciers during a globe-spanning ice age known as "Snowball Earth"? Or was it violently eroded during the catastrophic breakup of the ancient supercontinent Rodinia?

Join us as we explore how scientists are acting as geological detectives, using cutting-edge thermochronology and zircon dating to analyze the clues left behind. This isn't just a story about rocks; it's a mind-bending investigation into lost worlds, planetary chaos, and the incredible fragility of Earth history.

Ready to become a deep time detective? Subscribe now to join the investigation into the Missing Billion Years and help us solve the riddle of the Great Unconformity.

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