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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Of course it can! All you have to do is throw Newton's laws out the window and make up your own! See? Easy!
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
OH I get it. Darn am I dumb.
Danny Doyle
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
He could be suggesting that the mass of the earth is constant while its radius is increasing. Maybe he believes in a chemical reaction that is making the world less dense.
But my world remains pretty dense, I'm afraid. John
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
Could it be that the earth is absorbing energy and energy has mass? E = mc2
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2009-03-02 18:16, Tom Bartlett wrote: I believe the short answer is no. Actually, more or less that question came up just recently in a Q&A article in a newspaper I read. I've cut and pasted the relevant bit below: The Great Weight Debate — whether planet Earth is packing on the cosmic pounds — continues unabated. Last week, Gray Shanahan of Kandahar, Afghanistan, wrote that energy is equivalent to mass, and as some of the sun's energy is converted into matter by photosynthesis in plants, Earth's mass is increasing. Not so fast, writes Philip Jessop of the department of chemistry at Queen's University in Kingston. "Chemical reactions, like photosynthesis, don't create or destroy matter," he says. They just transfer matter (such as carbon dioxide and water) into other matter (such as the leaves of plants and oxygen). "The mass (the amount of matter) stays the same. The role of the sun's energy is to help the reaction along. This means that photosynthesis and plant growth aren't increasing the mass of the Earth. The conversion of energy into matter doesn't happen in a chemical reaction; it happens only in particle physics."
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
Quote: Thank you!On 2009-03-02 19:25, balducci wrote:
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Close.Up.Dave Inner circle Behind you! 2956 Posts |
I am perfectly open to the idea that this idea could be the real reason for things. It actually could explain some things that do not make sense. But, what this theory does not explain is that if this is the case then the water that is on earth would not just grow with the earth as the model made it look. You cannot just have water there unless it were from the steam given off by volcanos (which PLENTY of them are powered by subduction) or if ice collided with earth which would have been timed perfectly to explain why there weren't massive oceans covering all the continents. This is a really cool idea though. I doubt however that there are the paranoid people afraid that this concept would become a mainstream idea. If they could prove this as fact this would help further science which is the goal to begin with. It seems to me that this idea is not as developed as it should be and ignors other facts that could disprove it. Until they this theory down completely I'll go along thinking what I was taught, the continents drift and the earth recycles it self as does the rest of nature.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Not to worry guys, if the Earth expanding is a good thing then global warming will stop it, if it is a bad thing then global warming will cause it to increase. That has yet to be determined.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On 2009-03-02 23:59, David Ranalli wrote: Maybe he figures that the earth was one big ocean, with the present day continents merely a high spot on the ocean floor. Then as the earth expanded, the water level dropped, exposing the separating continents. I love ad hoc theories. This is fun. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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