The Earth

Poor Galileo. He probably imagined that the observable truth would triumph over a wrong idea. Only to discover the arrogance of those committed to the idea that the earth is at the centre of the solar system. Though the power of the Catholic Church and other religions to deny actual reality has waned, in some respects scientists themselves have taken over the mantle of unwavering arrogance.

In the introduction I mentioned continental drift, and the 56 year delay between Wegener proposing the idea and the paper by that finally forced geologists to recognise reality. I must however give geologists the credit for developing the drilling of cores and their analysis that has done so much to advance our understanding of the earth. There is however one long-standing proposal still being ignored, which if true may put other ideas into a completely different light.

A considerable number of eminent geologists, to explain the existence of coal in Antarctica and glaciers in India, have suggested that the crust of the earth may be able to slip over the core. Continental drift is simply insufficient to explain these findings. Geologists have a done a pretty good job in identifying how the continents of the earth oscillate between being a single landmass such as Pangea, which splits and moves around the earth to eventually re-join up. But if there is also slippage around the core at various intervals, ideas that they have had to come up with to explain glaciation at our current equator can be thought of differently. The idea of ‘snowball earth’ does not fit with the development of life on earth.

Earth crust displacement could also explain glacier formation that cannot simply be the result of a cooling earth. Glaciers need precipitation - rain and snow - to form. But a colder earth is a drier earth, as there is less heat to evaporate the oceans. There is something more complicated going on.

Read ‘The Path of the Pole’ by Charles Hapgood. And note the foreword by Einstein that considers the theory of earth crust displacement should be further researched.