Posted on 04/22/2012 3:53:17 PM PDT by Windflier
First… it’s important to understand that this is the most profound disagreement in all of science in a century and a half… and, even so, it is the tip of the iceberg, the ramifications of this disagreement will change everything we know in science, top to bottom.
To begin with basic stuff.
All science knows…
The earth has two crusts. One…the mostly basalt lower crust or the oceanic crust which is 2 – 4 miles deeper down than the higher upper continental crust. This lower crust, essentially covers the Earth. It … this crust is being made daily at rift cracks that snake around the earth’s mid- oceans. But how could all these rifts continually spread apart…without the Earth growing? Ah….that is the question….isn’t it?
Secondly,
Sitting on or “in” and “as part of” the oceanic crust is the second higher upper crust or the Continental Crust rising for the most part out of the water. It is made mostly of granitic rock, which is 2.5 times the weight of water.
Some edge area of the Continental Crust or Plate dips into and under the sea level of the ocean. This area is what we call the Continental Shelf. So as you go out into the ocean and the water gets gradually deeper … that is the Continental Shelf. At a given distance out into the ocean the ocean floor suddenly drops off and goes down like a plummet… 2 ½ to 4 miles to the deep ocean floor, where we find the second lower crust, the Oceanic Crust made mostly of basalts which are 3.0 – 3.3 times the weight of water. So to make it visually clear, if you took the water away what you would see as you go out into the ocean a distance is, the Continental Shelf would suddenly drop away and down like a ridge in Arizona., except it would go straight down for two to three miles, as if it was suddenly broken off. The other side of that broken off ridge is across the ocean thousands of miles in Europe, or Africa and west to Australia and Asia.
How did the two sides of this higher crust spread apart?
Rifts or eruptive cracks in the ocean floor provide new material in the form of molten magmic rock that rises up at a rift area and the oceanic plate spreads apart and the two sides move away from each other smoothly and regularly, and so the continents welded within the oceanic plates also move apart as the ocean bottom spreads…. Now if this happens … and it does, all over the world, logically speaking, this Earth must grow.
We … I … argue that, that this outer crust originally covered the whole of a smaller Earth and the Earth sphere grew. The outer crust, therefore, had to crack and spread to accommodate a growing Earth…which…it apparently did.
We further argue that if you were to shrink the sphere of Earth … by letting the oceanic plate re-enter the rifts they erupted from, over time … the continental crust would easily and completely fit back together, and this solution satisfies all questions of tectonics, science, geology, paleontology, theoretical and practical physics, cosmology, and subatomic physics. Pretty simple actually.
Amazing stuff. Start with video #0.
And it’s not just Earth. Neal shows how the same theory works on planets and moons throughout our solar system.
Neat stuff, and very profound.
He needs to pick up a Geology 101 textbook before he makes a bigger fool of himself.
Nah. The continents used to cover the whole earth when they were flat. After The Flood, they got all wrinkly and shrunk...
well I gotta say this guy draws one heck of a Batman though
The world is getting dumber. Its why men like Giorgio Tsoukalos can get rich by ignoring the obvious and feeding people stupid crap about ancient aliens building everything.
The fact that you replied so quickly tells me that you didn't bother to watch the videos, or read through his site. I'm afraid the case he makes is indisputable.
You'll have to digest the whole thing to see why.
If he plays this as a new age religion, he might get some followers. Other than that, he needs to take a basic geology course as you say. Funny stuff.
And hot spots also show clear evidence of plate movement. Plates clearly move across the surface of the Earth. This theory is rank idiocy that ignores solid evidence.
This is deliberate ignorance, which is the hardest kind to counter.
So, does this bring us any closer to anti gravity boots? NO... what I want, and I want it now, is anti gravity boots... don’t care nuth’n-bout no dumb EARTH CRUSTIES! /sheesh
I didn't watch his videos because his overview was so utterly stupid. Life is too short to double down on stupidity.
Seriously, do yourself a favor, spend ten minutes reading a Wiki on subduction zones. This is one of the clearest aspects of plate tectonics and anyone who pretends otherwise is seeking a path of deliberate ignorance.
I've seen this expanding earth garbage before and I and anyone else with the slightest comprehension of geology doesn't need to waste their time watching this idiot's videos.
That subduction zones aren't even mentioned in the original screed (which we can easily see through seismic records, and we can actually measure plate movement with GPS) immediately renders his argument a waste of time.
I cannot fathom why some people actively go out of their way to avoid actual scientific knowledge on a quest to believe kooks.
Pangean reunification!
"The g****** Germans got nothing to do with it!"
He Delft-ly ignored it...
BTW, “How the earth was made” on the history channel tonight. Its a rerun but its a good one about the great lakes.
"Leon's getting larger !"
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