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What is the mechanism for this expansion? It is not a theory if it is based on magic. What is the mechanism for this expansion? What is the mechanism for this expansion? What is the mechanism for this expansion? Why did the expansion start and stop? Was it (a) magic or (b) magic? It’s magic

! Moderator Note Doug Fisher, making this particular extraordinary claim without adequate support, especially in the face of all the evidence against it, is soapboxing, and we don't allow it since it's very frustrating for those trying to help, and it doesn't help you persuade a skeptical discussion group. You need to address the offered criticisms of an expanding Earth before making the conclusions you're making. This is the third page of preaching. If you have no evidence for your claims, by the rules of this section I need to close the topic.

For the record: Newton defined mass as "the amount of matter which is determined by its volume and density". Isn't that great? Try to define 'density' without referring to mass...

In formal and (in their domain) complete theories, one always will have circular definitions. Examples: F = ma. Try to define mass without referring to a force, or the other way round. (OK, you could do it by referring to Lagrangian, energy, etc but if you look carefully you will see that you always took something on board implicitly you did not define yet, and then, if you do, you will have to refer to a concept you already were using). Evolution: the survival of the fittest. Who is the fittest? The one that survives... It is simply the case that definitions of concepts are always circular. It cannot be different. One could even go one step further: every definition is a tautology. And with time it is not different. But what makes a theory scientific (math excluded...) is that one can make operational definitions. That means, one can define concepts as actions to take and observations to make. In this way one establishes that a theory is about something. In short: conceptual definitions are always circular; operational definitions are not. The idea of time-flow is more or less just a metaphor. Things flow in time*, or better, processes occur in time. Time itself does not flow. Normally what one means is that the time we call 'present' is ever going onwards. But this is just an example of an indexical. Indexicals are words which meaning is completely context dependent. Examples are 'I' (meaning the speaker), 'here' (the place where the speaker is), and, yes, 'now' (the moment that a speaker utters a sentence). For these do not exist any hard physical references. So the 'flow of time' is not a physical concept. But you treat it as such. Many laws of physics have a dependency on time: this means that we can describe how things change in time. But for laws of physics to become really empirical we need an operational definition of time. Practically, we do this be using 'standard changers', aka clocks: some regular process, where we can count the number of regular changes (tick-tack-tick...). And as a final remark: you know that physics just works. One can predict solar eclipses many years in advance on the second, special relativity is tested to the bone and is more or less the touchstone for every fundamental law of physics (they must be Lorentz-invariant), general relativity has until now withstood every empirical test: so there cannot be much wrong with the physical understanding of time. * On second thought, no, things do not flow in time. They flow in space... 'Flowing in time' is still metaphoric speech.

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Thanks Studiot. Your posts have proved to be the most thought-provoking and well thought out. Regarding the pivot point, it appears to be along the mainland and is defined by a sharp bend in the Kolyma Mountains. The two ductile fractures highlighted in the image below would be a direct result of stress along the coast generated by the interior bend. Closing the two fractures would pivot Kamchatka back into the coastal pocket and remove a 300-mile gap making the Asian coastline virtually the same length as the western coast of Kamchatka. I was starting to think no one was going to ask. Great question. One possible explanation for the trench fold is convergence after one of the expansion events. I believe that it is very significant that the Pacific Plate lies on a lower plane than the plates opposite the trench. If the plates were pressed up against each other while on the same plane, the plates would engage each other with equal strength along their rigid length. The Pacific Plate, however, lies at around 18,000 feet below sea level while the plates along the other side of the trench lie at around 11,000 feet. If convergence were to occur between the plates, which geologists agree is occurring at an incremental rate, the plate lying on the lower plane would fold underneath the higher plate. This very basic principle can be replicated by placing a sheet of paper across offset parallel planes and pushing the sheet together. The lower side of the paper will always fold beneath the side sitting on the higher plane. Earth expansion proposes that the planet initially existed as a unified continental crust until it fractured and the earth expanded. As the planet expanded, seafloor crust filled the voids between continents. Hence all continental crust predates seafloor crust. I believe what sets my theory apart from the rest is that I do not believe the planet is necessarily expanding at this time. The seafloor exhibits two very clear periods of expansion. The first expansion saw the continents fracture and separate with seafloor boundaries extending off major fracture points and expanding out as fully formed V-shaped ridges. The second expansion occurred after these seafloor boundaries had time to fully bond. Therefore, during the second expansion, seafloor ridges extending out into the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans split and moved off of each seafloor’s associated expansion ridge or divergent boundary and we find little to no ridge extension into crust currently dating out to 40mya. During periods between expansion events, as we are experiencing now, the planet remains fairly static in size and the fragmented continental plates and seafloor succumb to movement beneath Earth's surface.