Jupiterimages/Polka Dot/Getty Images. The term CT scan stands for Computed Axial Tomography and is often referred to as a CAT scan. It is a noninvasive test that helps doctors diagnose medical conditions. The procedure can take anywhere from 15 minutes to one hour depending on the part of the body being scanned.
Hence, we suggest that the Anthropocene (formal or informal) be defined to begin historically at the moment of detonation of the Trinity A-bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, at 05:29:21 Mountain War Time (Â± 2 s) July 16, 1945 (= 11:29:21 Co-ordinated Universal Time = Greenwich Mean Time).ere, we evaluate when the Anthropocene might be considered to have begun, as sufficient relevant studies have already been published (notably, those concerned with stratigraphic examination of the Anthropocene in Waters et al., 2014a) for interim assessment of this question.
This is the idea behind the Anthropocene, a new epoch in Earth history proposed by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen just 15 years ago.Since then the idea has spread widely through both the sciences and humanities.umans have long affected the environment, and ideas as to when the Anthropocene might start range from the thousands of years ago with the dawn of agriculture, to the Industrial Revolution â and even to the future (for the greatest human-made changes could still be to come).