Abstract

Exactly 101 years ago, German scientist—Alfred Lothar Wegener, sailed against the prevailing wisdom of his day when he posited that not only have the Earth’s continental plates receded from each other over the course of the Earth’s history, but that they are currently in a state of motion relative to one another. To explain this, Wegener set forth the hypothesis that the Earth must be expanding as a whole. Wegener’s inability to provide an adequate explanation of the forces and energy source responsible for continental drift and the prevailing belief that the Earth was a rigid solid body resulted in the acrimonious dismissal of his theories. Today, that the continents are receding from each other is no longer a point of debate but a sacrosanct pillar of modern geology and geophysics. What is debatable is the energy source driving this phenomenon. An expanding Earth hypothesis is currently an idea that is not accepted on a general consensus level. Antiproponent of the expanding Earth mercilessly dismiss it as a pseudo or fringe science with their main point of rejection being the energy source to power this supposed expansion. Be that asit may, we show herein that from the well accepted law of conversation of spin angular momentum, Stephenson [1]’s result that over the last 2700 years or so, the length of the Earth’s day has undergone a change of about +17.00 μs/yr, this result invariably leads to the plausibility the Earth may very be expanding radially at a paltry rate of about +0.60 mm/yr. If correct, this simple fact, automatically move the expanding Earth hypothesis from the realm of pseudo or fringe science, to that of plausible science.

Highlights

  • 101 years ago, German scientist—Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930), sailed against the prevailing wisdom of his day when he posited that have the Earth’s continental plates receded from each other over the course of the Earth’s history, but that they are currently in a state of motion relative to one another [2] [3]

  • An expanding Earth hypothesis is currently an idea that is not accepted on a general consensus level

  • To the proponents of the Expanding Earth Hypothesis (EEH), we bring a reason to believe that physical evidence exists that points to the plausibility of EEH, but this expansion’s plausibility is necessitated on the physical requirements needed to preserve the sacrosanct and embellished Laws of Physics such as the conservation of spin angular momentum

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Summary

Introduction

101 years ago, German scientist—Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930), sailed against the prevailing wisdom of his day when he posited that have the Earth’s continental plates receded from each other over the course of the Earth’s history, but that they are currently in a state of motion relative to one another [2] [3]. Foremost anti-proponents of the expanding Earth who hold the mainstream view in the field of plate tectonics, mercilessly dismiss (perhaps with good reasons) the Expanding Earth Hypothesis (EEH) as a pseudo or fringe science. This letter brings before the “eyes” of these anti-proponent hard-to-dismiss evidence that the Earth may very well be expanding or that a basis for this expansion has credible grounds. To the proponents of the EEH, we bring a reason to believe that physical evidence exists that points to the plausibility of EEH, but this expansion’s plausibility is necessitated on the physical requirements needed to preserve the sacrosanct and embellished Laws of Physics such as the conservation of spin angular momentum. Since the spin is dependant on three parameters, mass, radius or object and the spin period, the Laws of Physics vis the conservation of spin, requires that a change in the spin period, should automatically lead to a change in the radius of the object if the mass of the objects where to remain constant

Secular Increase in the LOD and the Expansion of the Earth
Hubble Expansion of the Earth
Plausible Initial Earth Radius
Discussion and Conclusion
Conclusion

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