Re: Shrinking Earth

In article <Srahf.27026$Y82.3823@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, maatschj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(jonathan) wrote:

>
> "don findlay" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1132698372.981735.17880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > > SBC Yahoo wrote:
> > > As for subduction,
> > > just stop and think:
> > > If the North American Plate has been moving against the Pacific Plate at 2
> > > Cm/Yr for 100 million years (just a slice of time for analysis), where did
> > > all of those 200,000,000 cm of crust go? Aliens come down and take it
> > > back
> > > up into space? Now there's an idea.
> > >
> > > The higher density rock (oceanic crust)tends to push the lower density
> > > rock
> > > (continental crust) and cause it to go down, where it is broken, in the
> > > mantle and lithosphere. When the subducted rock reached the part of the
> > > earth (mantle, I would say where the temperature is hot enough, it becomes
> > > fluid.
> > >
> > > Where does this excess material go in the mantle? I would say part, if
> > > not
> > > all of it is erupted in volcanoes, back onto the surface. natures
> > > recycling
> > > movement.
> > >
> > > Other interactions in the area of converging plates is crustal deformation
> > > (mountain building), intrusion of magma and volcanoism. (n California,
> > > near
> > > the pacific and NA plate interaction, we have all of these evident.
> > >
> > > Like I have said, I am not a geologist (Engineer) but this is what I
> > > recall
> > > from the head of the geology dept's lectures all so many years ago in
> > > school.
> >
> > (Sounds like you need professional help). Stuart (and even George - and
> > all the rest of them) will tell you the crust can't get pushed down,
> > because it's lighter than the mantle. But they won't tell you that.
> > They'll just look at you and know that you're no use to them as a
> > supporter of plate tectonics - just the same way as Stuart looks at
> > George and knows he isn't any use either. And just the same way as
> > Stuart (looking in the mirror) is beginning to doubt the reflection he
> > sees there too.
>
>
> The way science is taught to the masses is not unlike the way
> religion is taught. The Church keeps it simple, nice neat stories
> meant more to comfort, by providing a message that the world
> is known and safe. They allow the curious to dig deeper, and
> once in their fold, the true philosophy is revealed. What they've
> been teaching is just a shadow, a simplified version, of what
> they really believe.
>
> Just one example, they still teach that gravity is a force at a distance
> almost a century after that is not longer the belief. They still teach
> that gravity always attracts, even at the college level, to this day.
>
> A century from now, students will look back at the state of science
> today and chuckle, as we laugh at those that feared sailing off
> the edge of the Earth.
>
> Never for a minute think 'they' have it all figured out. Not even
> close. All the big discoveries are yet to come.
>
>
>
> Jonathan

Yaknow I have this opinion of gravity as being like electricity, a negative
force, so what you have is a negative force pushing upwards as opposed to a
positive one pulling downwards. Yaknow some folks still think or electricity as
going from positive to negative, when it is electron flow from negative to
positive. Get my drift?


Alan

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/enigma.html

http://veloceraptor.blogspot.com/
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