Expanding Earth?And Pangaea?

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Expanding Earth?And Pangaea?

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I found this and it is very interesting.Watch this and tell me what you think.If true this could change science?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDb9Ijynfo
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Re: Expanding Earth?And Pangaea?

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If this is true the current scientific model of the history of the earth will have to be heavily modified.

It's a theory that has been around for nearly 100 years and has been widely discredited for half of the time in light of recent of observations. Not to say it is incorrect but the burden of proof to overturn the current model would be heavy to anyone proposing this as a new model.

If we're going alternative I much prefer Charles Hapgood's theory of earth crust displacement via pole shifts, even Einstein thought it was cool.

Einstein's Foreward to Hapgood's Earth Shifting Crust:
I frequently receive communications from people who wish
to consult me concerning their unpublished ideas. It -goes
without saying that these ideas are very seldom possessed of
scientific validity. The very first communication, however,
that I received from Mr. Hapgood electrified me. His idea is
original, of great simplicity, and if it continues to prove it-
selfof great importance to everything that is related to the
history of the earth's surface.

A great many empirical data indicate that at each point on
the earth's surface that has been carefully studied, many cli-
matic changes have taken place, apparently quite suddenly.
This, according to Hapgood, is explicable if the virtually
rigid outer crust of the earth undergoes, from time to time,
extensive displacement over the viscous, plastic, possibly fluid
inner layers. Such displacements may take place as the conse-
quence of comparatively slight forces exerted on the crust,
derived from the earth's momentum of rotation, which in
turn will tend to alter the axis of rotation of the earth's crust.

In a polar region there is continual deposition of ice, which
is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth's
rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses, and
produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the
rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal
momentum produced in this way will, when it has reached a
certain point, produce a movement of the earth's crust over
the rest of the earth's body, and this will displace the polar
regions toward the equator.

Without a doubt the earth's crust is strong enough not to
give way proportionately as the ice is deposited. The only
doubtful assumption is that the earth's crust can be moved
easily enough over the inner layers.

The author has not confined himself to a simple presenta-
tion of this idea. He has also set forth, cautiously and compre-
hensively, the extraordinarily rich material that supports his
displacement theory. I think that this rather astonishing, even
fascinating, idea deserves the serious attention of anyone who
concerns himself with the theory of the earth's development.
To close with an observation that has occurred to me while
writing these lines: If the earth's crust is really so easily dis-
placed over its substratum as this theory requires, then the
rigid masses near the earth's surface must be distributed in
such a way that they give rise to no other considerable centrif-
ugal momentum, which would tend to displace the crust by
centrifugal effect. I think that this deduction might be capa-
ble of verification, at least approximately. This centrifugal
momentum should in any case be smaller than that produced
by the masses of deposited ice.
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