The Search for Nemesis... Paleontologists have found a pattern of extinctions dating from the earliest forms of life on earth. Scientists have found that the fossil records show that mass extinctions seem to follow a 26 million year cycle. The researchers brought their findings to < Luis Alvarez >, a Nobel Prize winner, at the University of California at Berkeley. Alvarez and his son Walter studied the phenomena and came to the conclusion that the Paleontologists finding had to be flawed. But before sending his reply, he went to noted astrophysicist Richard Muller also of Berkeley, just to cover all bases. < Muller > looked over the material and came up with a theory to explain the mass extinctions. Muller theorized that because most Solar Systems observed were binary, that our Sun had a companion star. The companion star was probably a red dwarf star with an extremely elongated period of rotation. The search for what Muller calls Nemesis has begun with now multiple Observatories now actively scanning the heavens.

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