bár gondolom ez nem vígasztal, de én még annyira sem vagyok.. (mármint fizikus)

pedig sokminden érdekelt volna, többek közt hogy a tűzözön eféle leírása pontosan milyen jelenséggel, katasztrófával magyarázható/azonosítható, az ilyesmi milyen nyomokat hagyhat hátra, és ezeket hol lehetne fellelni, ill. megállapítható lenne é belőlük az esemény dátuma kb. (cseppet sem vagyok telhetetlen):

"There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals."