LOOK Utah: New Man-Made Fossils Shatter Science Timeline

Growing Rocks Using Pressure, Water and Heat 

A man from Arizona and now living in Utah has shown how he grows rocks in something called an autoclave. Through trial and error, Dean Sessions was able to grow rock on a wire and even create fossilized wood and geodes. 

The autoclave looks like a big pipe and can contain immense pressure inside. Using convection heat in water, the rock dissolved and then as it cooled, reformed into new crystalized structures. He describes the experiment in this video at the 53:20 mark. 

He shows many different rocks he has created using this method. Sessions has also placed wood in the autoclave and turned it into a fossil that is indistinguishable from the petrified wood found in nature. 

Fossils Created in Hours Rather Than Millions of Years 

One of the big questions in science is where are the half fossils? If these rocks were created over millions of years, we should see some still in the process of being fossilized, but this isn’t the case. They seem to be all fossil or not at all.

It is also confusing to see leaves and other soft animals fossilized in rock when our experience is that these quickly break down and rot in nature. This discovery by Sessions helps clear up how this can happen. It also creates all new possibilities for the age of things.

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Much of the age of the earth is built on the fossil record. Carbon dating and other methods can only go so far back in dating the age of living things, much less rocks. If there is another explanation for how fossils form than the current understanding, it could have huge ramifications.