The grad student that did his periodicity research died very young, a shame. It confirmed my theory that gradualist's suck.
The idea of periodicity is really just a way to try to get catastrophes — which happen at random intervals — to behave themselves under uniformitarian gradualist paradigm. That’s probably why it didn’t catch on with *anyone*. :’)
Heh... I looked, it’s there on the shelf, wild! And it was filed next to the Officer and Page book (picked that up off remainder) which purports to prove that the dinos COULD NOT AND DID NOT go extinct as a result of an impact. :’) I moved it over one with a Gribbin book as a buffer.