Green | July 10, 2008 | 33 comments

The Earth is Expanding

source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VjgidAICoQI&feature=related

celestialceiling
This video is a Neal Adams animation about his theory that the Earth is growing. This differs from traditional Pangea understandings. Watch it, you will be amazed.


The Expanding Earth theory
is an attempt to explain the position and movement of continents (continental drift) on the surface of the Earth. The expanded earth theory (and plate tectonics) incorporates the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges, but the process of subduction is largely absent in this model. So the continents drifted away from each other because of further expansion at the rip-zones, where oceans currently lie. The result is an increasing radius of the earth.

The theory has a relatively small following today, compared with the almost universally accepted theory of plate tectonics, and is considered to be discredited by mainstream geologists. Many of those that remain are proponents of the ideas of the late Australian geologist S. Warren Carey. While Carey's ideas were popular for a time in the 1950s and 1960s, most workers in earth science believe that evidence collected over the last several decades supports a fixed size Earth, due to subduction, over the expanded Earth.

Wiki: Expanding Earth theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_earth_theory
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33 comments // The Earth is Expanding // Video

  • celestialceiling
  • Vierotchka
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  

    • From meteorites and cosmic dust which are constantly showering on our planet - even if the meteorites burn up in the atmosphere, they still add matter to the earth.

    • 3 years ago
  • ProgressiveBum
  • celestialceiling
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      celestialceiling  

    • The one thing i NEVER believed (even in 2nd grade) was the plate tectonic explanation of India. They say India began connected to south east Africa, broke away, swam up, and crashed into Asia. If you ask me, the traditional understanding of Pangea needs to be brought into a 3 dimensional understanding. Why do we always think of Pangea as being flat?!

    • 3 years ago
  • celestialceiling
  • Vierotchka
  • jh64487
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      jh64487  

    • Criticism can be fired at all the theories expounded to explain the mechanism of plate tectonics. Therefore, it is best to choose the theory, which contains only minor holes and explains the mechanism in a simple, clear and distinct way.

      Convective plume theory, developed by Le Pichon (1968), Morgan (1968), Runcorn (1980) and others has three major flaws: (1) plate boundaries are not distinct; (2) the condition that each plate having its own accretion and consumption boundary, as for the case for the African Plate, is violated; and (3) if the plates are rigid, as assumed, deformation should have occurred in bottle necks where part of a plate margin was subducted and the rest was not. Of course, the presence of island arcs, subduction zones, hot spots and basalt relationships support the convective-plume theory.

      The expansion theory of Cary has major flaws in it, among others, these are: (1) that the earth was assumed to consist entirely of continental sialic crust; and (2) that a rapid expansion at a rate of 8mm/year had to occur in the last 200my; and (3) that the earth had radius 76% of its present radius when Pangea broke up.

      The slow-expanding earth theory of Creer (1965) and others is more plausible but lacks evidence. It does not suggest why the earth would expand, why continental drift began so late in the earth's history or where the energy source for expansion is derived from.

      The conclusion is that the convective-plume theory is the most plausible, based on evidence available.

      source: http://www.geologynet.com/tectonics1.htm and occam's razor

    • 3 years ago
  • CTZNWES
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      CTZNWES  

    • I saw this a year ago and it got me thinking. Who knows? All i know is that science isn't always right and is constantly being disproven by other scientists! Gps Rwylie? I think if this was true it would take very long to be noticed by gps! Do you think it grows bigger every day? I think it would take decades if not centuries to truly see the effects!The earth grew over 4.5 billions of years!

    • 3 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • I believe the earth is 'swelling' too....especially after the 7.9 earthquake that caused the tsunami couple years back. Scientists actually measured a bulging of the earth by a few inches at the n.pole. Great video celestial!

    • 3 years ago
  • bishopobispo
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      bishopobispo  

    • I'm no scientist but I don't know if I agree completely with the theory. One thing that wasn't addressed in the video was the creation of new land due to geothermal activity (i.e. hawaii) while the traditional theory we were all taught in school mentions it. Sounds like a big hole... please tell me if I am wrong.

    • 3 years ago
  • VoyagerFilms
  • celestialceiling
  • celestialceiling
  • celestialceiling
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      celestialceiling  
    • Image

    • Long ago people believed the Earth was hollow and that deep within the core lived many other forms of life. Many Ancient underground tunnels have been found.

      This is crazy! Who knows, but it's very fascinating

    • 3 years ago
  • celestialceiling
  • celestialceiling
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      celestialceiling  

    • I'm not the one making the claim, many many many scientists are.

      google:
      Expanding Earth Theory

      I'm not making this all up. This is something I came upon, did a little research on, and thought it would be interesting to share.

      Did you watch the first video? there's 10 whole minutes of it. It's pretty damn compelling. The Pacific coasts all fit together just as perfectly as the Atlantic.

      Also google:
      "Hollow Earth" and see what you find. pretty weird stuff.

    • 3 years ago
  • rwylie
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      rwylie  
    • celestialceiling:

      Okay, I absolutely guarantee you that for the hollow earth theory you couldn't get a single scientist to agree with. We know the weight of our planet very accurately, a thin layer of rock like that diagram shows would give something like 100 times less mass, it's simply impossible.

    • 3 years ago
  • rwylie
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      rwylie  
    • celestialceiling:

      And as for the expanding Earth theory, you seem to have ignored my point about GPSL we know the EXACT radius of our planet at all times, what is your response to this? Please do not just ignore this point: if the planet were expanding, we would know.

    • 3 years ago
  • rwylie
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      rwylie  
    • celestialceiling:

      He is correct; plates on a sphere cannot fit together perfectly, but neither do the continents. This theory has no grounding in reality.

      He makes an assumption, by just saying 'this is not true'. If, as he says, the tectonic plates do not 'bump' into each other, how does he explain mountains?!

    • 3 years ago
  • celestialceiling
  • rwylie
  • celestialceiling
  • rwylie
  • rwylie
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      rwylie  

    • Well, no. For me I was taught it this year, in my final year of Geophysics at University. I studied the giganitic earthquakes that are produced at subduction zones such as Japan: one tectonic plate is being forced down below the other, where does the energy for these earthquakes come from if not from plate tectonics?

      What single piece of evidence can you tell me that supports your claim? I would genuinely be interested.

    • 3 years ago
  • celestialceiling
  • rwylie
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      rwylie  
    • celestialceiling:

      It's not at all a case of not questioning it, I believe that we should question absolutely everything. For example, if your claim had any evidence to back it up I might believe it, unfortunately for you my claim has an abundance of evidence, so is probably right.

    • 3 years ago
  • rwylie
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      rwylie  

    • The statement that "the process of subduction is largely absent in this model" is simply a lie.

      Subduction is a natural consequence of sea floor spreading: if you accept one, you must accept the other, unless you don't have the first clue of what you're talking about, which I think is the case here.

      We have extremely accurate methods of determining the radius of the Earth using GPS measurements, accurate to within millimeters. If the Earth was expanding, we would observe it.

    • 3 years ago
  • Paprika
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      Paprika  
    • rwylie:

      Personally I am very skeptical of the Growing Earth theory, however I am very interested in the expanding earth theory. It is not out of the realm of possibility that the earth's core (much like the sun's core) expands as it ages.
      As a matter-a-fact, the earth is currently expanding as denoted by gps measurements... we do note a steady increase in the earth's circumference each year. (I specifically remember bookmarking a study that measured the earth's size... i'll post it once i find it).

      If it is consensus, it isn't science

      "But Scientists, who ought to know,
      Assure us that they must be so....
      Oh! let us never, never doubt
      What nobody is sure about!"
      --From The Microbe, by Hillaire Belloc

    • 3 years ago
  • celestialceiling
  • celestialceiling
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