Plate Tectonics And Continental Drift., And I thought I knew all about it... Options

[lunk]

Plate tectonics and continental drift have been taught to me from a very early age.
I frequently found myself staring at geological formations, wondering how on earth, they were formed.
It sort of made sense, and what I didn't understand, I figured that it had all been studied, and some expert had already figured it all out, and there was no point in exploring the subject any further.
Now, I have recently discovered that there were other theories floating around:

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/lau...98/EARTHEXP.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Warren_Carey

Now there are stories, of the Earth being only 6000 years old,
and a huge flood that covered the world, and predictions of a firery future...
However, I find little, outside a few human scribbles,
to support these stories.

But, I do see a grain of truth in the demonstration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJzic3kk4_g

Proof that the Earth has become larger.
...and that's about all.

imo, lunk

[lunk]

I know it's amazing.
Once you see global growth on a large scale, like the continents all fitting perfectly together, on a smaller, earlier Earth, you start to realize that this must have been going on, even previous, to the continental breakup.
The same growth processeses can be seen on the continents.

The same growth is happening on, or in, all planets and moons, and probably stars.
Everything is growing...
logarithmically.

The bigger an object is the faster it grows.

I do not know if this is expansion, (like a balloon) or growth like a crystal, (solid).
I think both.
So mass is not increasing quite at the rate of volume increase.
Or, as things get bigger they decrease in their density,
but there is still an incremental gain in their weight.
Thus, things are growing, not just expanding.

Now, we just got to figure out how.

imo, lunk

[lunk]

The same growth is happening on, or in, all planets and moons, and probably stars.


imo, lunk

This is our moon:

(IMG:http://www.physics.uci.edu/~observat/Moon_NASA.jpg)

The lower dark smoother areas are newer growth regions.
The higher lands are older and have more craters.

This our Earth:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UT....150391&z=6

The lower lighter (in this case) smoother areas are newer growth regions.
The higher lands are older and are more mountainous.
Notice how there always seems to be mountains between the lower flatter growth areas?
Almost as if the new growth areas are pushing the mountains up.

If this is the case, then there will be new rock pushing against old rock and one would expect to see earthquakes and volcanoes around these spreading areas.
Where is the largest spreading area of Earth?
The Pacific ocean.

Ever heard of the ring of fire?

(IMG:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.png)

Same facts, better reasons.

imo, lunk