Posted on 02/09/2019 12:13:39 PM PST by ETL
“We measure time, I think, by segments of our choosing.”
Einstein showed that time is not constant, it is relative, and affected by among other things, gravity,.
If you travel at the speed of light for 40 years and then return to earth, you will find that earth will have aged 100,000 years, not 40 years.
So how much time passed in that period?
It was here when I was born so it’s oooooooold.
Why the sharp right turn?
Good question, I’m not sure... Something from the past? an event? Maybe the plate changes stress directions as it moves north? I haven’t nailed that question down yet with a viable theory so I can’t claim anything with this very good question yet. :)
But the age difference between each island and mount is about 200,000 years in sequence from the southern newest still active to the northern oldest respectively. And they claim a new one is starting to pop just east of the “big island” any time now.
It’s quite a phenomenon that is pretty hard to dispute when discussing the age of the earth. If you believe it’s any younger you are still in the dark ages. The geology with this is pretty simple and self explanatory.
I understand. I took three college level geology courses and I find this stuff fascinating.
See the “V” it heads into just before it slides under between the Russian Peninsula and the Aleutian plates? I think that might be an indicator that the chain is caught in the middle between two different plate pushes both northeast and northwest as they move towards that V.
I find it fascinating too... Had two very successful great uncles who were geologists extraordinaire. I was fortunate to have had apprentice time with them before they passed and learned quite a bit.
https://geology.com/usgs/hawaiian-hot-spot/
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The Hawaiian-Emperor Chain
Over a span of about 70 million years, the combined processes of magma formation, eruption, and continuous movement of the Pacific Plate over the stationary hot spot have left the trail of volcanoes across the ocean floor that we now call the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain. A sharp bend in the chain about 2,200 miles northwest of the Island of Hawai’i was previously interpreted as a major change in the direction of plate motion around 43-45 million years ago (Ma), as suggested by the ages of the volcanoes bracketing the bend.
However, recent studies suggest that the northern segment (Emperor Chain) formed as the hot spot moved southward until about 45 Ma, when it became fixed. Thereafter, northwesterly plate movement prevailed, resulting in the formation of the Hawaiian Ridge “downstream” from the hotspot.
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Thank you! So I had it backwards. It was the hot spot that moved at some point. Good find, I learned from it!
What made it move??? What changed this??? Always leads to a question... lol
Don’t know but there is probably multiple PHDs on the government payroll, who couldn’t find gainful employment elsewhere, researching it for the last 40 years.
I would bid on a private contract to do this for them for one tenth the cost. :)
“Does it really, really matter since we’re the ones that created ‘time’.”
Maybe everything happens instantly but our observations of those things are warped.
If Earth had, at one time, been only 51 million miles from the Sun, what would it be like now,4.5 billion years later?
Old.
The Hawaiian islands I think are less than 100 million years old, while the earth is estimated at 4,600 million.
That is very possible. Depends on the rate of plate slide which is a hard factor to actually figure. Which of course looks like it may have changed speed a few times by looking at it. It also looks like there may have been a lull in the storm with less tectonic activity in the whole of the timeline.
I personally think the whole slate has been wiped clean several times in the last 4.6 million years. And I think we are about ready for it to happen again. I think we are only getting half the real story of our geological history. A story that even the rocks do not remember because they have been recycled so many times.
Olivine is the key... find and age the Olivine.
I’m so old, I remember telling a fifth grade teacher that the continents looked like they could fit together, and she said it was just a coincidence. In those days, there were canals on Mars, too.
There are still canals on Mars to some... lol
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