Posted on 12/29/2004 11:28:36 PM PST by Destro
Shhh! I am trying to scare people!
Doesn't this mean we're all gonna live longer?
This will hardly make up for the long term slowing caused by tidal interactions with the Sun and Moon.
Yeah I know what you mean. I thought I was going to be 19 forever and look at me now, an old woman. *sigh*
First of all, it's presented as a theory. Second, this involves the very simple principle of conservation of angular momentum, something that God obviously designed into the Universe.
For every earthquake that pushes some land mass toward the centre of the earth (and lets say speeds up our rotation by 3 millionth of a second), there is an earthquake or moutain building event that pushes some landmass away from the centre of the earth.
The earth has been more-or-less the same size since it was created 4.5 billion years ago (or more accurately since the moon was created 4.4 billion years ago) (and even more accurately, it is growing very slightly every day as dust and meteorites fall to earth.)
Sorry, nothing to see here.
You have heard of the rain cycle, this is the earth cycle.
Hmm i can't remember learning this truism in Earth Science... I must not have been paying attention.
I also must have missed the reporting of a mountain of equal size to the subduction suddenly sprouting up somewhere... i miss everything :\
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