The Bermuda Triangle mysteries: an explanation based on the diffraction of heat waves

Studies based on actual meteorological records [E. C. Njau, Nuovo Cimento15C, 17–23 (1992)] as well as analytical methods [E. C. Njau, Proc. Ind. Natn. Sci. Acad., 61A (4) (1995); Renewabvle Energy4, 261–263 (1994)] have established the continuous existence of a series of large-scale, Eastward-moving heat waves along the Earth's surface, whose individual crests and troughs are stretched approximately along the geographical North-South direction. In moving across the American continent, these waves encounter a line of physical barriers formed by the lofty Rocky and Andes ranges of mountains, which is continuous except for a significant gap or opening between Columbia and Mexico. This line of physical barriers consistently maintains a maximum height of 3000–4000 m between latitudes 40°S and 55°N except for a significant opening or slit located between Mexico and Columbia where the maximum height hardly exceeds 600 m. The Eastward-moving heat waves are thus incident obliquely on an approximately single-slit barrier when crossing the American continent and those parts of the waves which filter through this single slit essentially form some kind of single-slit diffraction (heat) patterns in, around and past the Bermuda Triangle. These diffraction heat patterns give rise to corresponding weather and ocean patterns which, to a large extent, account for the mysteries already noted in the Bermuda region.