Posted: Apr 19, 2012 11:59 am
Thwoth wrote :-
You need to change your footnote then ( "He who thinks and thinks for himself etc.. ")
The argument itself is not difficult. Plate Tectonics is wholly predicated on the assumption that the Earth can't get bigger ("because we don't know how it could / mechanism etc.) Earth expansion is predicated on the simple geological evidence that it has got bigger by the extents of the ocean floor, absent of any assumptions, and acknowledging that there is a big question hanging over how energy is transformed into mass (which is one for physics), how that mass is transmuted into matter (which is one for physics and geochemistry) and how that material transmutation ends up as mantle material + water (which is the big question for geology). I think there are already reasonable bounds within which energy mass and material can be logically linked, e.g., it could be argued to be Moon capture or "collision with the Mars-sized object" (= origin of the Earth-Moon sytem back in the Proterozoic). According to stratigraphy and structure Earth expansion is already a lay-down misere. The big question is the geochemistry one.
The fact EE is granted no particular credence among academics and researchers in the relevant disciplines is good enough for me.
You need to change your footnote then ( "He who thinks and thinks for himself etc.. ")
The argument itself is not difficult. Plate Tectonics is wholly predicated on the assumption that the Earth can't get bigger ("because we don't know how it could / mechanism etc.) Earth expansion is predicated on the simple geological evidence that it has got bigger by the extents of the ocean floor, absent of any assumptions, and acknowledging that there is a big question hanging over how energy is transformed into mass (which is one for physics), how that mass is transmuted into matter (which is one for physics and geochemistry) and how that material transmutation ends up as mantle material + water (which is the big question for geology). I think there are already reasonable bounds within which energy mass and material can be logically linked, e.g., it could be argued to be Moon capture or "collision with the Mars-sized object" (= origin of the Earth-Moon sytem back in the Proterozoic). According to stratigraphy and structure Earth expansion is already a lay-down misere. The big question is the geochemistry one.