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

From: Stuart (bigdakine_at_aol.com)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: 6 Mar 2005 11:20:13 -0800

don findlay wrote:
> 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!)

George asks a good question. If one assume the crust behaves as Matt
did, these questions are inevitable. I point out, that at doesn't make
sense. The continents would show deformation resulting from the Earth's
change of radius of curvature and stretching.

Stuart

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