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Theory of Expanding Planets/Moons, By Neal Adams
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post Mar 17 2006, 02:56 PM
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Theory of Expanding Planets
Comic book legend Neal Adams, who is currently creating a six part series of Batman, discussed his research on a new model for the Universe. His theory proposes that the Earth, and by extension, all moons and planets, expand in size from the inside as they age.

The bottom of the ocean is only between 70 to 180 million years old, said Adams. He hypothesized that Earth was originally ¼ its current size, and that the tectonic plates fit perfectly together on this smaller world which had significantly less areas of water. 600 million years ago Jupiter was also smaller, he said, and thus larger meteors came into the inner solar system, hitting Mars and our moon (as evidenced by their craters). Further, his notion of a growing universe negates the Big Bang theory, and he outlined how a solar system could come into existence as matter is attracted to a sun's electromagnetic field.


Animations can be seen here... http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/03/16.html

He was on Coasttocoastam.com last night. Along with animations to show his theory.

Europa and Ganymede where pretty neat.
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post Mar 17 2006, 03:44 PM
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Gaaack. His theory would have been more plausible if he'd said that the Joker is inflating them as one of his evil schemes.
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post Mar 17 2006, 05:10 PM
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Expanding planets. Har. That old chestnut again.

I remember hearing about that one in Grade 5 (my science teacher that year wasn't a fan of plate tectonics, which is probably the reason he told us about it). That would've been 1979 or 1980. Even then I knew it was garbage, and I was a fan of "That's Incredible", "Project: UFO", Bionic Bigfoot and various asinine Charles Berlitz books at the time.

Funny that this guy's trying to take credit for something that was ludicrous thirty years ago. It's amazing what a fountain of crap the 1970s were (mind you, the same could be said for all subsequent decades).
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post Mar 17 2006, 08:55 PM
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This might have been a serious theory 30 years ago, but no longer. That bit about there being no sea bottoms older than the Jurassic is true if you only count seabottom that is still in place, since seabottoms are fairly rapidly recycled by plate tectonics. However there are bits and pieces of old seabottom around that have been obducted onto continents, and they show conclusively that there have been deep seas much like the present ones since 'way back into the precambrian.

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post Mar 17 2006, 10:28 PM
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The Ganymede animation lines up good, but that doesn't really mean the moons grew in size.
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post Mar 18 2006, 12:03 AM
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I saw the 'Neal Adams' byline and thought I'd pen some wiseacre comment relating to Batman, but then discovered that reality had overtaken me! All I can say is that the Gotham Space Science Institute would be better off conducting searches for surviving fragments of the planet Krypton - I'm sure that Bruce Wayne would fund some really serious research!

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Well, to throw the guy one exceedingly small bone, the Hubble constant implies that the distance between any two points in the Universe is and has been increasing since at least the end of the inflationary period...but at a rate of 70 km/sec per 3.26 million light-years or so, I can't see it having any measurable effect on something as tiny as a planet! laugh.gif

By the way, is Neal Adams the same guy that proposed some sort of bizarre radioactive vulcanism for Mars? I remember reading about some...uh...'creative' theory along those lines in Sky & Telescope a few years back.


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