Shiva hypothesis
The Shiva hypothesis, also known as coherent catastrophism, is the idea that global natural catastrophes on Earth, such as extinction events, happen at regular intervals because of the periodic motion of the Sun in relation to the Milky Way galaxy. == Initial proposal in 1979 == William Napier and Victor Clube in their 1979 Nature article, ”A Theory of Terrestrial Catastrophism”, proposed the idea that gravitational disturbances caused by the Solar System crossing the plane of the Milky Way galaxy are enough to disturb comets in the Oort cloud surrounding the Solar System.