2.8 billion year old spheres

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In a most bizarre series of finds that are still ongoing, for the past 60 years or so, miners in

Africa have been finding literally hundreds of metal spheres, some from quite deep underground.

And at least one of them, possibly more, has three parallel grooves running around its

circumference

has white flecks in it and the others are hollow with a kind of spongy centre. The curator of the

museum of Klerksdorp in South Africa, where many of the spheres are housed, a Mr. Roelf Marx

describes them this way: "The spheres are a complete mystery. They look man-made, yet at the

time in Earth's history when they came to rest in this rock no intelligent life existed. They're

nothing like I have ever seen before"

Roelf Marx also wrote a further letter dated September 12, 1984 that contains more

information on the spheres. In it he wrote: "There is nothing scientific published about the globes,

but the facts are: They are found in pyrophyllite, which is mined near the little town of Ottosdal

in the Western Transvaal. This pyrophyllite (Al2Si4O10(OH)2) is a quite soft secondary mineral

with a count of only 3 on the Mohs' scale and was formed by sedimentation about 2.8 billion

years ago. On the other hand the globes, which have a fibrous structure on the inside with a shell

around it, are very hard and cannot be scratched, even by steel."

was devised and is named after Friedrich Mohs, who chose ten minerals as references points for

comparative hardness, with talc the softest and diamond the hardest.)

. The spheres seem to come in two types: one is of a solid bluish metal and(The Mohs' scale of hardness

However, as if the mere existence of these metal spheres is not enough there is still another

amazing property of the artifacts that captured the attention of a Mr. John Hund of Petersburg

about fifteen years ago. While playing with one of the objects on the flat surface of a table one so exact, that it exceeded the limits of any of the space

day, Hund apparently noticed that the sphere seemed to be particularly well balanced so he

decided to take it to the California Space Institute at the University of California for testing to

determine just exactly how well balanced it actually was. What the results of the tests surprisingly

showed, was that the sphere was in fact balanced perfectly and exactly.

The balance of the sphere was in fact,

institutes current measuring technology – and these are the people who make gyrocompasses for

NASA! Not too badly balanced at all really…

The sedimentary rock in which most of these spheres were found is located well below the

surface in deep underground mines and is estimated to be a staggering 2.8 Billion years old.