Following on from that last post about Shen-Su Sun blowing the whistle, I never knew that, ..about the expanding Earth getting a hold in China. From the media hype I thought it only existed as a fringe idea in the west. But then I'm not connected to any academic circle, much less a Chinese one. I guess there are some others who are, or would be. If so they are remaining very quiet about what's happening on that side of The Wall. With all the hype about the need for scientists to communicate better with the public, it's surprising that what's being said in China about Earth expansion is not getting an airing here in the West.
With such exorbitant paygates excluding the public from the results of research the way they do, it's not true of course, .. about scientists communicating with the public. All we get are vignettes through the popular press, which has an agenda (much like Rupert's, the facts for which we have to rely on Wikileaks) to aggrandise science with references to 'Teams' at prestigious institutions, so that us hoi polloi are led to believe they're doing a great job. However, with views from the inside that better than 90% of the money invested is being wasted, it is hardly in the interest of scien*TISTS* to advertise that fact. Of course the science itself and the public suffers but for the majority of scientists that's a dichotomy we should leave them with, ..to face every morning when they get up.. "What if, ..Plate Tectonics is all wrong? Should we direct attention to how that could possibly be? Or do we deny the possibility, shout down loudly, and try harder to shore up what we've already got? It is after all so secure (is it not?) .. do we really need to bother to question it on grounds that we might not have all the answers?" Well, if that's the case then everybody working in physics can all go home, because so far as our understanding of the connection between material stuff and mass is concerned, we know all there is to know. Don't we?
If Earth expansion is as big in China as Shen-Su Sun says (and he should know having academic connections, and reading the journals) then it would seem there's a huge omission going on in western scientific literature (Orwell ~ "The biggest lie is the lie by omission") Yes/no? Shen-Su complains about a paper dated 1996 :-
"..More than two years ago I was amused as well as alarmed to find that there is an abstract in the 1996 Beijing International Geological Congress (IGC) abstract volumes suggesting that the Earth radius in the late Archaean (about 2500 million years ago, compared to the age of the Earth of about 4550 million years) and Cambrian (about 545 to 490 million years ago) was ~80% and 94%, respective to its present radius. The silly idea of expanding Earth has a group of strong Earth scientist supporters in China too!..He doesn't say who, but since it's abstracts it could well be the same person writing this in 2000.
http://www.scichina.com:8080/kxtbe/fileup/PDF/00ky0304.pdf
"The expanding earth tectonic dynamic hypothesis was advanced clearly by Hilgenberg in1933 and it was in vogue from the 1950s to the 1960s. As there were no convincing explanations for the expansion, compressional structure, periodic character of the tectonic movement, etc., the hypothesis was then substituted by the theory of plate tectonics. In recent years some problems the theory of plate tectonics run into had no satisactory solution[1 4], and the facts and evidence on which the plate tectonics theory is based are accordant with the expanding earth hypothesis, so the expanding earth hypothesis has been active again since the 1980 s and it is accepted by more and more people[5 7].Surely it's newsworthy in the Earth sciences that an idea getting such short shrift within the academic community here in the west, is alive and well in China, as also should be the reasons why this is so. I find this particularly interesting because the person writing it, Chen Zhigeng, is the only other I have read in English - apart (importantly!!) from Hess (1962) - who acknowledges the apparent reality of expansion, but notes that it is trumped by the ignorance of the day. Everybody else since has swept that particular acknowledgement under the carpet, choosing instead to gloss over it with the blanket denial of "no mechanism", as if not having one is a perfectly good reason not to bother trying to look for one.
So, ..ignorance, backed by financial support to maintain it, should trump scientific endeavour? What sort of Earth scientists are we dealing with here in the west? Not ones who are interested in exploration, ..that's for sure. Zhigen's remark about the problems of Plate Tectonics is precisely the reason why the Phoenix is rising today from the ashes of its previous existence. However this time it is backed by greater clout given by the empirical evidence for the progressive process dynamics from equatorial to latitudinal dilation, in a way that incorporates the Earth's rotation and links a cause for expansion to celestial mechanics, as explained on the header-linked site.
Though there are reasons to support both, the stuff on that site about asteroidal impact or Moon capture is of course sheer speculation, a sop to the cerberus of people's insecurity of being unable to live with the unknown, and not directly germane to the point of expansion. Not so inconsequential however is the link between convection and Plate Tectonics, because without convection Plate Tectonics could not exist : Plate Tectonics *is* convection; it has no support whatsoever from the empirical geologic facts other than those that axiomatically describe expansion. But the transition from Pangaean equatorial mantle breakthrough to Present Day longitudinal rupture and spreading is in a class of facts quite different from, and quite superior to that of speculation of material properties of the Earth's interior based on hypotheticals derived from our (possible) understanding of seismic velocities. Latitudinal to longitudinal rupture is EMPIRICAL GEOLOGICAL FACT constructed of what we can directly see, not speculative hypothesis based on what we cannot.
Well then, so, ..for those who like me did not know of the Chinese connection, I'm making it news - , ..and I wish I could read Chinese so I could make it more news. Want to keep up with the news why Plate Tectonics is going down the gurgler? ..and Earth expansion is in the ascendancy? Then tell your pals to Google up Don Findlay's Blog. Unfortunately it seems to be the only one around with anything much on the empirical geological support for expansion, ..or refuting Plate Tectonics, which given the bluntness of its cutting edge is a terrible indictment of all the sheeples (thanks Michael). :-) this side of the Great Wall of China. Sheeples Me-e-eEHHe-ing gobbledegook about Plate Tectonics. On your Money, 90% (at least) of which, if predicated on Plate Tectonics, is going down the drain.
[ See also Expanding Earth blog at
http://www.earthexpansion.blogspot.com/ ]
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