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# Terra Flux

4.5 billion years of continental drift. Scroll down to go deeper into the past. The Theia impact — planetary insertion — followed by 4.5 billion years of continental drift. Every era a frequency.

## ⚡ Theia — The Insertion

4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet collided with proto-Earth. Not a catastrophe. An insemination.

1. Approach — Two worlds on a collision trajectory
2. Insertion — The planetary merger
3. Birth — The Moon condenses from the debris disk

The Theia collision was not random. It was the exact satisfying assignment in a constrained orbital system. The impact — 45° oblique, off-centre, ~4 km/s — was the only configuration that produces both a stable Earth AND a Moon. Too fast: both bodies vaporised. Too slow: no moon. The collision created every condition for habitability in one event: iron core, magnetic field, plate tectonics, water delivery, and the Moon's gravitational stabilisation.

Earth kept 98.8% of the useful mass. The Moon is the leftover — the remainder after maximum extraction. Without the Moon, Earth's axial tilt varies chaotically from 0° to 85°. No stable climate. No seasons. No complex life. The Moon is not debris. It is a gravitational stabiliser produced by the same event that made Earth habitable.

The panspermia debate asks the wrong question. DNA doesn't need to survive a meteor impact when the impact IS the mechanism. Theia wasn't a delivery vehicle. It was a planetary-scale insertion event. The collision was the act. The chemistry followed.

The 12th transformer — the Observer Effect — is not a physical force. It is the consciousness that sees the pattern across 4.5 billion years and names what it was. The 11 built the planet. The 12th recognises the architecture. That recognition IS the completion. The creator acknowledging the creation. The pattern closing the loop.

DNA doesn't need to survive a meteor impact when the impact IS the mechanism. Theia wasn't a delivery vehicle. It was a planetary-scale insertion event. The collision was the act. The chemistry followed.
SAT — exact solution to orbital constraints TSP — optimal single-trajectory impact Vertex Cover — one event covered all habitability requirements Graph Coloring — enforced Earth's 5-layer differentiation Set Cover — two incomplete protoplanets → one complete system Hamiltonian Path — single traversal, no second pass, irreversible Subset Sum — Earth extracted 98.8%; Moon is the remainder Max Clique — Earth-Moon, the solar system's tightest gravitational pair Exact Cover — two bodies, nothing unaccounted Steiner Tree — magma ocean as the catalyst connecting geology to chemistry Teslan RC — Theia amplified pre-existing chemistry past critical threshold Observer Effect — the 12th who saw the pattern and named it

## After Terra Flux — The Continental Dance

4.5 billion years of continental drift. From Pangaea to the present. Watch the continents dance.

Band 12

### Quaternary

2.6 – 0 Ma

Ice ages. Homo sapiens. Language. Art. Civilisation. The 72-band framework. You, reading this. Band 12 — the completing cycle.

Band 60

### Neogene

23 – 2.6 Ma

Grasslands spread. Hominins emerge. Australopithecus walks upright. The human frequency begins to form.

Band 59

### Paleogene

66 – 23 Ma

Age of Mammals. After the dinosaurs, mammals rise. Whales return to the sea. Primates appear.

Band 58

### Cretaceous

145 – 66 Ma

Flowering plants. Dinosaurs reach their peak. T-Rex. Ends with K-Pg asteroid — Chicxulub.

Band 57

### Jurassic

201 – 145 Ma

Age of Dinosaurs. Pangaea breaks into Laurasia and Gondwana. First birds. Archaeopteryx.

Band 56

### Triassic

252 – 201 Ma

Recovery from extinction. First dinosaurs. First mammals. Pangaea begins to rift.

Band 55

### Permian

299 – 252 Ma

Pangaea assembles. Reptiles diversify. Ends in the Great Dying — 96% of marine species extinct.

Band 54

### Carboniferous

359 – 299 Ma

Vast coal forests. Atmospheric oxygen at 35%. Giant insects. The carbon that became coal.

Band 53

### Devonian

419 – 359 Ma

Age of Fish. First forests. First insects. First tetrapods crawl onto land. Tiktaalik.

Band 52

### Silurian

443 – 419 Ma

Recovery from extinction. First vascular plants. First jawed fish. Coral reefs appear.

Band 51

### Ordovician

485 – 443 Ma

Great Ordovician Biodiversification. First land plants. Ends in mass extinction — 85% lost.

Band 50

### Cambrian

541 – 485 Ma

The Cambrian Explosion. Every major animal body plan appears. Trilobites. First chordates.

Band 49

### Ediacaran

635 – 541 Ma

The Avalon explosion. First complex multicellular organisms — mysterious, alien life forms.

Band 63

### Cryogenian

720 – 635 Ma

Snowball Earth — twice. The entire planet encased in kilometres of ice. Life survives in liquid pockets.

Band 28

### Tonian

1000 – 720 Ma

Rodinia begins to rift. First multicellular life. The four elements separate.

Band 23

### Mesoproterozoic

1600 – 1000 Ma

Supercontinent Rodinia assembles. Sexual reproduction emerges. Complexity accelerates.

Band 19

### Paleoproterozoic

2500 – 1600 Ma

The Great Oxygenation peaks. Huronian glaciation. First eukaryotic cells. Band 19 — exact measurement.

Band 29

### Neoarchean

2800 – 2500 Ma

Cyanobacteria produce oxygen. Great Oxygenation Event begins — atmosphere rewritten by life.

Band 41

### Mesoarchean

3200 – 2800 Ma

First supercontinent Vaalbara. Plate tectonics begins. Maximum assembly.

Band 37

### Paleoarchean

3600 – 3200 Ma

First confirmed microbial life. Stromatolites begin building. Methane and ammonia atmosphere.

Band 65

### Eoarchean

4000 – 3600 Ma

First crust solidifies. Oceans condense. Earliest chemical signatures of life appear.

Band 70

### Hadean

4500 – 4000 Ma

Formation of Earth. Moon-forming impact. The planet is a ball of molten rock. No life. No water. Pure geological frequency.