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Finally someone agrees with me! I’ve always thought the earth’s surface looked like a muffin top that expands and cracks apart as it’s baked.
The science is in, the debate is over.
Where did all the water in the oceans come from if it used to be one large contiguous land mass?
Ridiculous. If the mass of the Earth remained the same while this magical expansion occurred, the slow down in rotational velocity would have been spectacular. The earth would have had to be spinning like a top initially. A day would have been only a few hours long, and this guy postulates that this happened so recently so as for mammals to be able to migrate around easily? If it happened that recently, why is the earth not continuing to grow?
I put this theory in the same pile as the 9/11 missile/empty planes/nanothermite ones.
The mega continent Pangea was a “knee jerk” idea? And this isn’t?
So if the earth was smaller; where did all the water come from then? You know there is EARTH under all that ocean water we have.
How could the planet be smaller, LESS massive billions of years ago, and thus have LESS GRAVITY, and still have an atmosphere and support life?
How was there even plant life if there was so little water? Is the planet still expanding and getting larger too?
What a crock of BULLSHIT. Did some creation scientists think this up?
Where would the extra stuff come from? Going to import it from space?
water comes from fire
fire comes from air
air comes from ether
ether comes from mind
mind comes from you…
and don’t forget that earth comes from WATER…
You comes from Nothingness
If the planet is growing, how come the level of the water is still the same?
Oops, forgot that one.
Let me quote John C. Dvorak:
“Oh, brother”.
Obviously too big of a concept for quite a few people on here to fathom. Humans have only been around for a blink of an eye in the life of this planet. Comets and meteors have been pounding it it’s whole life. Especially thousands/millions of years ago. What makes this some crackpot theory? Sounds logical to me. Everything comes from somewhere, even if your peabrains can’t fathom it.
So where does all that mass come from? The author shows it coming from the inside out???
I can see why THEY would want to keep this secret from us. If we found out that the earth was once smaller there would be PANIC in the streets (note the sporadic use of ALLCAPS. Anything said in ALLCAPS is even more true than lower case words)! If I was a TOP LEVEL SCIENTIST I’d keep this all secret just to stop GLOBAL CHAOS and RIOTS in the street.
Laughable bullshit.
If you’re requiring a deus ex machine, go with the simpler one; that one requires that a whole lot of evidence be ignored…
Putting my scientific hat on, the “idea” of this hypothesis isn’t that outrageous and could be possible if mass and volume remained relatively constant.
I see no problem with a faster spinning Earth that slows down.
As for water, well where DOES water come from. At present that’s actually a bit of debate. Perhaps it was seeded to Earth from space, there’s certainly a lot about. In fact Earth’s first atmosphere was water vapour.
The real issue with the hypothesis is that we have observation evidence it’s false.
We can accurately measure the Earth and it’s currently not getting bigger and yet North America is moving away from Europe. So if there is no expansion, how can this be happening?
Other factors, such as paleomagnetic data, point towards a fairly stable size.
So it’s not actually THAT insane, but physical evidence disproves it.
Ah, physical evidence, the bane of any theoretical physicians fun. 🙂
Another Republican consumption theory. No, the Earth is not getting larger, it’s you getting fatter.
For one thing, the platypus is NOT a marsupial. It’s a monotreme, an egg-laying mammal.
Secondly, as pointed out above, the time line is so short. All this happened after the dino diedo? So the smaller earth with it’s tight-fitting pangaea is sitting there in space spinning through a six hour day when along comes a rogue planet and knocks off a moon-sized chunk that lovers still spoon under. Where does THAT fit into your jigsaw puzzle?
It’s an interesting theory but I’m not convinced. I’m gonna wait until Algore tells me what to believe.
#14 Rob Leather said, “where DOES water come from. .. Perhaps it was seeded to Earth from space” I realize you’re not proposing the theory, Rob, merely repeating it. But, I hate this life was seeded to earth or water was seeded. If water was created so plentifully in other places of the universe, why shouldn’t it have been created right here at home? It seems every where we look, we find water markers. Is it so strange then that it should be native to our own planet? The “seeded” argument is just using a comet as god in an “earth is special” scenario.
On the question of where everything came from: Like everything else, from China. Just go to your local WalMart and it will be proven.
So what was “twice as dense as granite” has expanded over a long, long time to become just granite. A hot tea kettle wants to expand (actually it does). Seems plausible that the same thing is happening here very, very slowly. Our mass isn’t changing, just our density.
Interesting conceptually given my lack of knowledge on the subject “but” they say there are no subduction zones. We have been measuring mountain height long enough to know the Sierra Nevada and the Himalayas both grow some millimeters each year–slower than our finger nails I believe but still growing. Maybe that could be an upwelling of magma underneath them but subductions makes more sense.
I’m guessing here but some of the land masses like India have moved quite far compared to other masses like Asia that cannot be explained by mere ocean rift expansion–it requires tectonic plates that move in relationship to one another.
What really grabs my attention is the comparison to the “all the land in one place”/large island surrounded by ocean/Godwannaland (sic–whatever it is called)–I can see the current edges of the continents matching puzzle like with all the pieces from the “middle” of Godwannaland. What I don’t get is how the outside of Godwannaland Island would also match up instead of being quite irregular. I wonder if the matching dynamic on the video is fudged to make that happen?
IOW–what we always see is the shape of the continents matching if we shrink the Atlantic Ocean. I’ve never seen the pacific ocean shrunk before. When shrinking the Atlantic Ocean, the pieces all match shape wise but more importantly, so does the underlying rock formations and the fossil records==all matching as if they were together. Same thing should happen if we shrink the Pacific. I don’t recall that statement being made.
Stars expand, contract, expand, explode as the nuclear forces are counteracted by gravity. Earth at its core has no nuclear fussion/fission just decay. In my ignorance, I could buy “some” expansion but only too little to support this hypothesis.
How do we know what we know and how do we change our minds? Once again, admitting I don’t know enough to have a valid opinion–I will rely on the authority of the consensus of qualified scientists.
Ain’t reality a bitch?
The universe has been constantly expanding since the big bang, why not the earth?
Science seems to bring out the assholes on this fine blog almost as well as politics.
Welcome Dadeo!
ANY scientific theory that includes “its obvious” and “what they don’t want you to know” must be entirely true. It is obvious that they don’t want you know to that.
Oh Brother!
So why did the earth start growing 40 million years ago?
The stargate??
What size was the earth 50 million years ago! What size 100, 200, 300, 1,000 million years ago! I guess if you go back far enough, the earth was the size of a Yugo.
Everyone who disagrees should watch the video again. He clearly says “blah, blah”, which refudiates any possible argument. It doesn’t take a rocket appliance to figure it out.
I have proof that objects of considerable mass, shrink when they age.
#27 – Bummer
#27 Skeptic:
Good point. My waistline has definitely expanded as I’ve aged.
#21 “The universe has been constantly expanding since the big bang, why not the earth?”
And hot air rises – it doesn’t mean congress can fly. Science is a bit more difficult than – X is true so Y must be true.
I like the backward reasoning for the conspiracy, that the growing earth hypothesis disproves the past 100 years of scientific theory.
Maybe scientists don’t support the growing earth hypothesis because it has 100 years of scientific theory backing them up.
Skeptic–you did make an excellent point. Totally not the one Animby seconds. I don’t know if that makes your point more relevant or just highlights Animby’s Professional Modesty. He’s probably posting for another placebo effect of some kind.
What was that old ditty about Goering only having one ball? //// And the Earth is one Ball? And empty space has no ball at all?
Excuse me, my brain shrank to the size of animbys ………….waist?