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AngusThermopyle
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Very interesting indeed. What force does he attribute to Earth's growing size?
And if every celestial body is indeed growing, when does it stop growing? Surely there is only so much mass any given planet or sun has to grow with.
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Death 999
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Obsolete? Pshaw. It's so screwed up that 'obsolete' cannot apply to it, as that would imply it had a heyday.
The principal observation used is that the sea floor on the western coast of the US is young.
That's because there's an expansion zone right next to the subduction zone, with the Farallon plate in between. So that's a wash, there. The Atlantic expansion is balanced by subduction off the coast of Asia.
The question evaporates as soon as you zoom in enough to see the details.
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RTyp06
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Obsolete? Pshaw. It's so screwed up that 'obsolete' cannot apply to it, as that would imply it had a heyday.
The principal observation used is that the sea floor on the western coast of the US is young.
That's because there's an expansion zone right next to the subduction zone, with the Farallon plate in between. So that's a wash, there. The Atlantic expansion is balanced by subduction off the coast of Asia.
The question evaporates as soon as you zoom in enough to see the details.
Actually, subduction is largely theoretical and doesn't have the concrete, large scale evidence that the expansion zones have. One thing though is that they don't try to explain the "ring of fire", the volcanic hot spots that ring the Pacific.
Even though I don't agree with this expanding earth theory, it's not completely infeasable. After all, the earth was thought to condense from the dust disk and grew larger and larger for at least 1 billion years. We also know that crystals do grow in volume, although this would perhaps increase size, not mass. And more mass is needed if the theory's predicted increase in earth's gravational force was responsible for the realitively huge size of dinosaurs to today's animals.
Here's some more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_earth_theory
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I think that this firmly establishes how much credence we need to allot you on scientific matters.
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Death 999
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Well, considering that the subduction would be happening at the very bottom of the ocean where we can't go, it seems reasonable that we haven't seen it.
You can consider the ring of fire.
I'll stick with conservation of mass.
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RTyp06
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Zeep, if you think the first video was silly, check out this one he just added several days ago about why the dinosurs died off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdavRmR-2YE
Now that is silly...
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RTyp06
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I took the liberty to add comments at UTube to this guys expanding earth video. He actually responded. Man this guy is somthing. For a good chuckle, read through some of the comments left by him and others.
LoL
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=VjgidAICoQI
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