Unless there are truly mystical, standard conservation law flagrantly violating mechanisms operating, expanding Earth notion faces insuperable problems:Is it possible that the Earth is expanding , in volume . Hence these fault lines is showing us that the Earth is expanding ?
Is it possible that the Earth is expanding , in volume . Hence these fault lines is showing us that the Earth is expanding ?
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Is it possible that the Earth is expanding , in volume . Hence these fault lines is showing us that the Earth is expanding ?
Unless there are truly mystical, standard conservation law flagrantly violating mechanisms operating, expanding Earth notion faces insuperable problems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_Earth#Main_arguments_against_Earth_expansion
Very slightly, yes. Micrometeors are constantly falling on the Earth, adding to its mass. Although, come to think of it, that wouldn't necessarily increase the volume. Although, come to think of it, it probably does, a bit.Is it possible that the Earth is expanding , in volume.
No. Fault lines are a feature of plate tectonics.Hence these fault lines is showing us that the Earth is expanding ?
If you are going to make controversial claims, try to cite a source in support of the claim. You must have heard or read that myth somewhere.The Earth was much smaller in its beginning than it is now . Earth is larger in the present .
There's no problem.You don't understand the problem .
The Earth's surface is 70% ocean. Haven't you noticed?Fit the geological forms 500million yrs ago , so that Earth was one solid continent . Meaning no sepperation , the the current volume of Earth can not do so .
Very slightly, yes. Micrometeors are constantly falling on the Earth, adding to its mass. Although, come to think of it, that wouldn't necessarily increase the volume. Although, come to think of it, it probably does, a bit.
No. Fault lines are a feature of plate tectonics.
If you are going to make controversial claims, try to cite a source in support of the claim. You must have heard or read that myth somewhere.
Or, at the very least, tell us why you believe this claim to be true.
There's no problem.
The Earth's surface is 70% ocean. Haven't you noticed?
Nope. The Earth is shrinking slowly. It loses more mass to solar wind than it gains in meteors and dust.Is it possible that the Earth is expanding , in volume . Hence these fault lines is showing us that the Earth is expanding ?
Nope. The Earth is shrinking slowly. It loses more mass to solar wind than it gains in meteors and dust.
However, currently that loss is being slowed even further by warming. Since the planet is warming, that is counteracting the tendency of the Earth to shrink to some degree.
Sure. Warm things expand. And fun fact - even heat energy has mass (but not volume.) So when you heat something, it expands AND gains a very, very small amount of mass. (E=MC2 and all that.)Your thinking , in detail .
Sure. Warm things expand. And fun fact - even heat energy has mass (but not volume.) So when you heat something, it expands AND gains a very, very small amount of mass. (E=MC2 and all that.)
We gain mass normally through meteors - about 40K tons of rocks fall to earth every year. Most burn up, and so the material comes down as dust.
We lose mass through solar wind. Solar radiation breaks stratospheric water down into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen stays behind and becomes either ozone or oxygen that we breathe. The hydrogen is so light that it floats to the top of the atmosphere - and then solar winds blow it away. (They are basically hydrogen atoms as well.) We lose 90K of hydrogen a year that way.
As the planet warms, the heat energy goes up. Estimates are that we gain about 40K tons a year that way.
So net-net, we are losing about 10K tons a year.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep...is-earth-getting-heavier-or-lighter-1.4804900
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16787636
As I mentioned, about 40,000 tons.How many tons , from our solar system , and beyond , Lands on Earth per year .
As I mentioned, about 40,000 tons. Peryear .
How would mass falling on the earth cause fault lines?How many tons , from our solar system , and beyond , Lands on Earth per year .
How would mass falling on the earth cause fault lines?
Then why do you accept the idea that it does?I don't know .How would mass falling on the earth cause fault lines?
Then why do you accept the idea that it does?
Where else would the extra mass come from?Where did I say that the expansion of Earth is caused by mass coming from the sky above us ? I didn't .
Where else would the extra mass come from?