A book which was kept a US state secret for more than five decades has now been declassified by the CIA.

The works of Chan Thomas – which details a shocking conspiracy theory about the planet’s supposedly impending demise – has now gone public nearly 60 years after he first penned it.

The late engineer, UFO researcher and self-proclaimed polymath is the author behind the infamous book titled The Adam and Eve Story.

Modern day conspiracy theorists have continued to pedal his beliefs long after his death in 1998, and now, the details of his concerning predictions have finally been laid bare.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) put a stop to the book’s publication in 1966, for reasons that remain unknown to this day.

It is thought that the intelligence service might have been concerned that Thomas’ theories might have sparked mass panic or that he may have spilled the details of secret government research.

The CIA declassified parts of the book back in 2013, but kept the rest of the literature under wraps, until now.

Chan Thomas’ 1966 book has now been declassified by the CIA (CIA)

Thomas, who was a former US Air Force employee according to the Daily Mail, shared his interpretations on the Book of Genesis, several pre-Biblical stories, and historical geological phenomena in his writing.

The first chapter is titled ‘The Next Cataclysm’ and begins by saying: “Like Noah’s 6,500 years ago… Like Adam and Eve’s 11,500 years ago… This, too will come to pass…”

Essentially, Thomas believed that the world is rocked by a major disaster every 6,500 years, the damage of which is similar in scope to that of the ‘Biblical Great Flood’.

Although Noah’s Ark would have came long before us lot were born, experts aren’t exactly sure on which date he supposedly had to cram animals two by two on his vessel to escape the deluge.

But Thomas insisted that his calculations were correct, using archaeological and geological evidence to support his timeline.

If the American was as good at maths as he claimed to be, that would suggest that the world ought to be bracing itself for another disaster of epic proportions in another 1,000 plus years or so.

Thomas’ pole prediction

According to Thomas, these cataclysmic events are brought on by the Earth’s poles – the two points where the planet’s axis of rotation meets the surface – switching places, which is known as geomagnetic reversal.

Scientists say that this swap, which the author believed was responsible for earthquakes, tsunamis and severe weather which could wipe out the world, last occurred about 780,000 years ago.

“During a pole reversal, the magnetic field weakens, but it doesn’t completely disappear,” according to NASA. “The magnetosphere, together with Earth’s atmosphere, continue protecting Earth from cosmic rays and charged solar particles, though there may be a small amount of particulate radiation that makes it down to Earth’s surface.

“The magnetic field becomes jumbled, and multiple magnetic poles can emerge in unexpected places.”

In the The Adam and Eve Story, Thomas claims that this pole switch will ultimately be the downfall of human civilisation and spell the end of the world.

Thomas alleged that the Earth’s magnetic field – which is constantly shifting and occasionally reverses polarity – will be shunted, causing chaos for the Earth as we know it.

He kicked off the first chapter with a chilling warning about what was to come (CIA)

In one chilling passage, he wrote: “In California, the mountains shake like ferns in a breeze; the mighty Pacific rears back and piles up into a mountain of water more than two miles high, then starts its race eastward.

“In a fraction of a day all vestiges of civilisation are gone, and the great cities – Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, New York – are nothing but legends.

“Barely a stone is left where millions walked just a few hours before.”

He goes onto describe apocalyptic scenes taking hold of America’s tourist hotspots, with winds ‘with the force of a thousand armies’ wreaking havoc with ‘supersonic bombardment’.

Thomas then claimed that a tsunami stirred up in the Pacific would drown LA and San Francisco ‘as if they were but grains of sand’.

He believed that ‘within three hours’, the entirety of the North American continent would be engulfed by devastation, as an earthquake will also supposedly allow huge cracks to form in the ground and magma to flow out.

But the other six large landmasses on Earth won’t escape the wrath of the alleged cataclysm, either – as Thomas warned that each continent would also be annihilated.

He believed that they will all experience slightly differing versions of the same tragic end – with the ‘horrendous rampage’ only ceasing after seven days.

A new world

However, Thomas believes that the planet would be a lot different on the other side of things.

He wrote: “The Bay of Bengal basin, just east of India, is now at the North Pole. The Pacific Ocean, just west of Peru, is at the South Pole.”

Thomas said that Greenland and Antarctica were hurled toward the equators, only to ‘find their ice caps dissolving madly in the tropical heat’.

Let’s hope that he wasn’t as nifty with numbers as he thought then, eh?

According to Martin Mlynczak, a senior research scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center, we haven’t got anything to worry about.

“It’s just unfortunate that these things are being put out there,” he told The Verge. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

“And there’s no proof and no science and no physics behind any of the claims about the magnetic field change being associated with climate change.”

He dubbed Thomas’ theory that the Earth’s magnetic field will make a 90-degree switch as ‘totally bogus’.

“If that’s what happened every 6,500 years, we would certainly see it; it would be in all the records,” Mlynczak added.

“The amount of energy to bring that about is tremendous. And you know, there’s nothing to initiate it.”

A NASA blog written by Alan Buis, who works in the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also explains: “There’s no evidence that Earth’s climate has been significantly impacted by the last three magnetic field excursions, nor by any excursion event within at least the last 2.8 million years.”

Google has claimed that its latest ‘state of the art’ creation could ‘prove’ we live in a multiverse as it achieves an incredible feat.

It seems nowadays technology companies are trying to outdo each other when it comes to the latest products and more recently, with their own forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

You may have heard of American tech company Google before, but apart from its search engine, it also spends time developing computer software, online advertising and quantum computing among other things.

And it has recently announced a breakthrough in one of these areas.

Willow is a new quantum computing chip from Google (Google)

What is Google’s new quantum chip?

The tech giant’s newest ‘quantum chip’, named ‘Willow’, is designed to reduce errors in AI and chips that already exist, similar to other Quantum computers, which are used to solve highly complex problems that normal computers can’t solve.

Founder and Lead of Google Quantum AI, Dr Hartmut Neven, describes the performance of the new creation as ‘state-of-the-art’, claiming its quick computational power allows it to solve problems in under five minutes.

He explained that Willow can lessen the number of errors by using more ‘qubits’ – the basic unit of information in quantum computing.

Some people have cast doubts, however (Google)

So, what does this all have to do with the multiverse?

Neven went on to add that the only explanation behind Willow’s unprecedented speeds is that it draws information from parallel universes.

A concept made popular in pop culture by films, physicists often argue that parallel universes exist and that we will see proof soon.

The creator explained: “Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

“This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.”

Apparently, all these wires help to draw information from parallel universes (Google)

Professor Deutsch is a physicist at the University of Oxford, and is known for his work in quantum computing after putting in research during the 1990s, supporting Neven’s claims.

Skeptics cast doubts

However, some doubters say that these claims about its performance are based on the company’s own benchmark to measure quantum performance, and that it doesn’t prove that people in parallel universes are getting our information for us.

The development of Willow and the scientific findings behind it have been published in the journal, Nature.

There’s been a new update with the ‘Doomsday glacier’ and it’s not looking good.

The Thwaites Glacier has the potential to be catastrophic for coastal communities worldwide as scientists have a fresh and worrying update for us.

Located in West Antartica is the ginormous slab of floating ice – around the size of Great Britain – which remains in rapid retreat.

According to new study, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine, have determined that the warm water sat below the surface of the glacier is causing the rate of melting to increase more rapidly.

After using data from Finland’s ICEYE commercial satellite mission from March to June of 2023, they concluded that there might need to be a reassessment of global sea level projections.

The glacier has the potential to increase global sea levels to more than two feet if it melts completely, according to the study.

This find lead to flooding, loss of habitat, and increase in the number of storms.

Co-author Christine Dow, professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, told the University of California, Irvine: “Thwaites is the most unstable place in the Antarctic and contains the equivalent of 60 centimetres of sea level rise.

“The worry is that we are underestimating the speed that the glacier is changing, which would be devastating for coastal communities around the world.”

The Thwaites Glacier is around the size of the UK. (James Yungel/NASA)

“These ICEYE data provided a long-time series of daily observations closely conforming to tidal cycles,” lead author Eric Rignot, UC Irvine professor of Earth system science, added.

“In the past, we had some sporadically available data, and with just those few observations it was hard to figure out what was happening.

“When we have a continuous time series and compare that with the tidal cycle, we see the seawater coming in at high tide and receding and sometimes going farther up underneath the glacier and getting trapped.

“Thanks to ICEYE, we’re beginning to witness this tidal dynamic for the first time.

“There are places where the water is almost at the pressure of the overlying ice, so just a little more pressure is needed to push up the ice.

“The water is then squeezed enough to jack up a column of more than half a mile of ice.”

The West Antartica glacier remains in rapid retreat. (IceBridge/PA)

ICEYE Director of Analytics, Michael Wollersheim, credited the readily available resources and said: “Until now, some of the most dynamic processes in nature have been impossible to observe with sufficient detail or frequency to allow us to understand and model them.

“Observing these processes from space and using radar satellite images, which provide centimeter-level precision InSAR measurements at daily frequency, marks a significant leap forward.”

An ancient scroll from almost 2,000 years ago has finally been decoded.

Quite the step up from the bits of hieroglyphics we ‘learned’ in primary school Ancient Egypt classes, this needed the help of artificial intelligence (AI) to be worked out.

The Herculaneum papyri are made up of about 1,800 scrolls and ended up buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD.

These scrolls were excavated from an ancient Roman villa but it’s been an absolute slog trying to unroll and read them.

So, the Vesuvius Challenge was set up in March 2023 to try and decode the them, offering a mega prize pot of $1million (£796,000) to crack it.

Papyrologists (yes they’re a real thing) worked with the contest, believing the Roman scroll contains ‘never-before-seen text from antiquity’.

And three students managed to read 15 columns in a scroll, helped out by AI-powered coding machines.

Youssef Nader in Germany, Luke Farritor in the US, and Julian Schilliger in Switzerland will get to share the $700,000 (£557,000) prize after managing to read over 2,000 letters.

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Nat Friedman is one of the challenge’s organisers and TIME reports that after printing out the winning submission he said: “All this has been in this dreamlike digital world in my imagination before.

“Seeing it on paper, rolling it up, it just made it so tangible.”

This winning submission totals four passages, each of 140 characters. TIME explains: “With at least 85% of the characters in each of those passages recoverable by professional papyrologists. It also contains a further 11 columns of text.”

The text in question is a piece of Epicurean philosophy on the subject of pleasure. The winning submission shows ancient Greek letters on a large patch of scroll, and the author seems to be discussing the question: are things that are scarce more pleasurable as a result?

Sebastian Condrea/Getty Images

The author, whose identity is unconfirmed, doesn’t think so: “As too in the case of food, we do not right away believe things that are scarce to be absolutely more pleasant than those which are abundant,” one passage from the scroll reads.

In the final section of the scroll, the author appears to criticise his intellectual adversaries, who ‘have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition’.

Professor Alice Roberts dubbed this discovery ‘the archaeological discovery of my lifetime’.

Although, there is a whole load to be discovered with the combined efforts of the Vesuvius Challenge resulting in about five percent of one scroll being read. And the contest confirmed on X: “In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we’re announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned.”