__NOTOC__ James Marvin Herndon (born 1944) is an American interdisciplinary scientist who earned his BA degree in physics in 1970 from the University of California, San Diego and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear chemistry in 1974 from Texas A&M University. For three years, J. Marvin Herndon was a post-doctoral assistant to Hans Suess and

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in geochemistry and cosmochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. He has been profiled in ''

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'', and dubbed a “maverick geophysicist” by '' The Washington Post''.

Theories on Earth

Herndon suggested that the composition of the inner core of Earth is nickel silicide; the conventional view is that it is iron–nickel alloy. In 1992, he suggested " georeactor" planetocentric

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s as energy sources for the gas giant

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, as the energy source and production mechanism for the geomagnetic field and

stellar ignition Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in The "medium" is present further soon.-->interstellar space

nuclear fission Nuclear fission is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei. The fission process often produces gamma photons, and releases a very large amount of energy even by the energetic standards of radio ...

. In 2005, Herndon postulated what he calls whole-earth decompression dynamics, which he describes as a unified theory combining elements of plate tectonics and Earth expansion. He suggests that Earth formed from a Jupiter-sized gas giant by catastrophic loss of its gaseous atmosphere with subsequent decompression and expansion of the rocky remnant planet resulting in ''decompression cracks'' at divergent continental margins which are filled in by basalts from mid-ocean ridges.J. Marvin Herndon, ''Whole-earth decompression dynamics,'' Current Science, V. 89, No. 11, 10 Dec. 2005 Recent measurements of " geoneutrino" fluxes in the KamLAND and Borexino experiments have placed stringent upper limits on Herndon's " georeactor" hypothesis on the presence of an active nuclear fission reactor in the Earth's inner core, so that such reactor would produce less than 3 TW.

Chemtrail theory proponent

Herndon has become a proponent of the

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and published several peer-reviewed papers claiming that coal fly ash is being sprayed for

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. In 2016, two of his papers, however, were retracted because of flaws; Herndon disputed the reason for retraction, claiming the retractions were "a well-organized effort (CIA?) to deceive... Those concerted efforts to cause said retractions prove that the high officials who ordered the spraying know very well that they are poisoning humanity and want to hide that fact".Herndon, J. M. (2017)
''Concerted Efforts to Unwarrantedly Cause Retractions of Peer-Reviewed and Published Public Health Scientific Papers''
(PDF).

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External links

NuclearPlanet.com
a website operated by J. Marvin Herndon {{DEFAULTSORT:Herndon, J. Marvin American nuclear physicists American astrophysicists American geophysicists American conspiracy theorists Living people 1944 births University of California, San Diego alumni Texas A&M University alumni Place of birth missing (living people)

Theories on Earth

Chemtrail theory proponent

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