Re: Owen's Two-Phase Model of Earth Expansion

From: don findlay (don_at_tower.net.au)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: 3 Mar 2005 07:50:18 -0800

George wrote:

> Another point that has to be made is that if the earth is expanding
beneath the
> ocean basins, why do the basins still exist? Wouldn't they be higher
in
> elevation than the continents? Even a 10% increase in the earth's
diamter would
> be more than enough to cause the ocean floors to bulge to the point
where they
> would be above sea level.

What do you reckon, Stuart? Is George on the money?

> As an example, if the earth was same size at the
> break up of pangea that it is today (7,900 miles), and increased by
10% from
> then until now, it would increase in diameter by 790 miles to 8,690
miles. The
> deepest part of the ocean is at the challenger deep, is only 6.78
miles below
> the surface. So if the earth expanded even just 10%, the challenger
deep would
> be 395 miles (increase in radius) - 6.78 miles = 388.2 miles high,
which is
> slightly (irony added) higher than sea level. I know this is a silly
thought
> problem, and obviously it wouldn't work quite this way, but it does
point out a
> major flaw in any argument about EE.

All in favour of George say "aye".

> Oh, but everything else is going up at the
> same time, right? Well, if that is the case, the surface would
flatten out and
> the oceans would been much shallower, and you wouldn't have these
challenger
> deeps or the abyssal plains.

(Wow! Just like that, see? George thinks, and the Earth moves.)
What do you have for breakfast George? Kryptonite? (Superman eat your
heart out!)

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