Posted: Mar 29, 2017 3:16 am
PleaseReadThis wrote:Where you are getting your assumptions from? As just one example that would invalidate your assumptions, if there were some sort of quantum mechanical accretion of mass from particles that came from all directions more or less equally, the Earth would necessarily spin slower as it grew due to the conservation of angular momentum.
Translation: If there were some unsubstantiated, hand-wavy assertion that invalidated science as we know it, then an expanding Earth could exist.
Unfortunately for EE proponents, there are no quantum mechanical accretion effects possible at the energy levels found on, in and around Earth.
Btw, why wouldn't there be quantum mechanical accretion of some fraction of particles that are wizzing by? Their wave functions get broader and broader the faster they go so there would be a non-zero probability of them being gravitationally captured at the center of mass of the Earth rather than even be detected at the surface where we would never even see them?
Are you seriously asking me to demonstrate why your unsubstantiated hand-waving is wrong?
It's wrong because we have truly excellent models of quantum mechanical interactions for particles up to about 125 GeV which is the level of energy required to demonstrate the Higgs boson (that's the particle responsible for the mass of various gauge bosons). All interactions at energy states lower than that required to produce the Higgs boson have been produced, studied, catalogued and incorporated into the Standard Model.
This means that the only place for "quantum mechanical accretion" is at energy levels higher than that required to spontaneously produce Higgs bosons. Were such energies present in any significant amount on, in or around the Earth then we would have far more serious things to worry about than the mere expansion of our globe.
