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Earth expansion - an infected term
Updated after detection of water planet GJ1214b.
There is a deep controversy today between those who believe that Earth has expanded and those who do not. An expanding Earth is thus a really provocative claim. Some think that since the ocean floor in the Pacific Ocean is about 125 million years old the earth has expanded dramatically since then but there is no hint for a mechanism behind. Others think that the size of the Earth has always been the same but then there is a problem to explain why continents seem to fit together if the size of the Earth was smaller.
Some statements from the article (click on the link below) are
- “Keep it simple but not too simple” is used for the evolution of the Earth.
- Since entropy increases with time, focus is on simple solutions when considering the early Earth
- The Earth was compressed since it was the core of a gas planet.
- The expansion of the Earth ended 3 billion years ago.
- Water covered the whole Earth and when enough water had evaporated land and then land life appeared. This caused the Cambrian explosion of species 550 million years ago.
The nice things are that no strange or farfetched mechanisms are needed and that the hypotheses strengthen each other and are shown reasonable by facts.
ARTICLE: Applying Simplest Possible Principles for the Evolution of Earth
Thoughts on the future of physics
What will happen when we address aspects of the extremely small and extremely large and find out that we are no longer capable of verifying theories?
ARTICLE: The future of physics
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