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wormwood
ok I have read many of the posts on this forum and there seem to be a number of physicists and metaphysicists here, so I was hoping for some intelligent insight into (what I presume is) my theory.
Ok if change is the only constant in the universe, and all matter is more or less in some process of metamorphosis or evolution, does the planet itself also fit into this? For example, land was formed on earth by molten rock spewing from the earth's core, and cooling. Every year there are tons of molten rock spewed forth, so does the surface area of the earth gradually increase? Would the circumference eventually be much larger, in effect increasing gravity? If this is the case, this may give some insight into the dinosaurs who were perfectly adapted for millions of years then, all of the larger species died out. Maybe they were fine when the gravity was less intrusive, but as gravity increased their massive bodies proved unsuited for life on earth.
Also consider the ebb and flow of the ice ages, the atmosperical changes, and various natural phenomenon. The natural phenomenon and atmosperical changes can, in part, be attributed to humanity, be even then it could be a natural response, like the release of white blood cells to a fresh wound.
If indeed the gravity is gradually increasing, this could also explain an increase in mental illness and erratic behavior among human beings. By that I mean, if you look up crime statistics you will see that even the slight gravitational increase of the full moon increases crime rates substantially. Could it be that wee too are slowly becoming unfit to live here?
It is just a theory and I know it is a little counter intuitive, but I was just curious from a scientific standpoint why I was wrong. Thanks.
Daedalus
As the planet spews out lava to form new rock, on the other side, earth's plates crush into eachother and rock is being pushed down into earth, thus melting.
wormwood
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Daedalus Posted Yesterday, 03:01 PM
  As the planet spews out lava to form new rock, on the other side, earth's plates crush into eachother and rock is being pushed down into earth, thus melting.


Ok, well one volcanic eruption can spew enough material to form a whole new island. Are you speculating that island sized chunks of land break off from the plates friction? If that were true, wouldn't whole cities fall into the earth? Also, added material falls from space, not to mention that all of the ancient world was buried indicating that the ground we are standing on now, is much higher than the land of 50,000 years ago. blink.gif
Guardsman Bass
The planet certainly does evolve, although it is evolution in the sense of "change over time" rather than any type of evolution mentioned in the biological sense. Oceanic crust is cycled every few tens of millions of years. Continents are eroded by land water, and sediments carried into the sea. The amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere fluxuates heavily, but gradually, over the last 4 billion years, has gone down significantly on average as the luminosity of the sun increases slowly. Most prominently of all, the continents continue to move, some as much as 5 inches a year, while others only 1 inch at most.
StalingradK
The newest changes are the ice ages thumbsup.gif
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