Re: Expanding Earth?

On Aug 28, 2:48 am, Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Well lets make it even simpler shall we?
Explain to me, why the calendar year from the ancient city of
Tiauanaco Bolivia, discovered at 12,000 feet above sea level, covered
in 6 feet of sediment, has a calendar, of 290 days.

Do you think they could not count the number of times that the sun
rose and set in a year, and yet they built giant pyramids, and
recorded eclipses, and solstices?

Explain to me *how* an expanding year affects the number of days in a year?

If days/yr increases, then either the absolute length of a day (hr/day)
decreases or the absolute length of a year (hr/year) increases.

Decrease in absolute length of a day -> Earth's rotation has sped up.
Increase in absolute length of a year -> Earth's period of revolution
has slowed down.

I should point out here that the way to increase the angular momentum of
an object (like the Earth) is to increase the concentration of the mass
*in the center* of the object. Assuming that there used to be 290 days
in a year, the Earth would have had to have *contracted* to be consistent.

Any reasonable EE hypothesis would in fact increase the length of a day
(which is currently happening because the moon is drifting further and
further away).

Well my guess is that if you imagine it backwards for a second and say
it was shrinking, it would then gain momentum and go around the Sun
faster. And the opposite is true, if it expands, it loses momentum and
goes around the Sun slower, resulting in more revolutions around its
axis of rotation per orbit around the sun.
Does the rotation of the earth change?
It probably slows down a bit.
But the question remains though how did that first major rift happen,
in the Pacific, 100 m.y.a. or so?
If we call the entire mass as one continent Pangea and there are no
oceans, the rift opens up and sea floor spreading starts to happen,
thats recent history compared to the age of the planet. Or supposed
age of the planet.
So what caused that? Was it gradual? Did it have something to do with
the moon? Did it have something to do with what some people say, a
planet like Nibiru? In some way shape or form as is present in
Sumerian mythology.
(Although I don't follow Sitchen too closely and think the reason
Latvian is so close a language to Sumerian may be because Sitchin and
those who worked out the original translations may have some Latvian
roots.)

http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi37.htm

So I am a bit skeptical of Sitchin's translations. I have read some of
his books and don't buy into many of his arguments regarding Nibiru. I
tend to think it is the asteroid belt.
And maybe that destruction of Nibiru, into the asteroid belt, happened
100 mya.
Who knows.


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    ... Tiauanaco Bolivia, discovered at 12,000 feet above sea level, covered ... in 6 feet of sediment, has a calendar, of 290 days. ... then either the absolute length of a day decreases or the absolute length of a year increases. ... I should point out here that the way to increase the angular momentum of an object (like the Earth) is to increase the concentration of the mass *in the center* of the object. ...
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    ... Tiauanaco Bolivia, discovered at 12,000 feet above sea level, covered ... in 6 feet of sediment, has a calendar, of 290 days. ...
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