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  1. OK I think I get the main ideas behind the thesis. So my first question is: Your thesis clearly requires a change in Earth's radius. Can you please tell us the range in Earth's radius required to explain all the observations.
  2. Hey, can someone summarise the developments and main points in the thread so far? I have picked up: • expanding/shrinking core as a mechanism for plate tectonics. • some debate about the existence of mantle convection. anything else i've missed?
  3. Looks to me like a way to generate models using artificial intelligence. The problem with these training algorithms is that you can never be sure what they're picking up. For example, there was a study where they were trying to train a computer to recognise the gender of a human face, they trained the computer and then set it off, it went wrong and nobody understood why. After some investigation it was realised that the computer was picking up on some detail in the background on the training images. I'm sure the algorithms are better now, but the lesson remains the same: can you trust your models if you're not quite sure what the computer is basing them on? With regards to uncertainty, I was expecting some kind of quantitative measure of the uncertainty of geophysical models of the subsurface but I didn't see any of that.
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