Are some celestial bodies, including Earth expanding? Or is electricity a better explanation?
What is the origin of the Earth? How long has it existed? How did it come to be the celestial body that we inhabit today? These and similar questions have been on humanity’s mind since we began to think. As the process of scientific investigation has developed and instrumentation invented, the structure and behavior of our planet has been deduced and theories affirmed to explain our evolution. For the past 100 years or more, scientific advancements have revealed features on Earth and other planets that seem to indicate the crust is cracking and spreading in a continuous movement. Many hypotheses have been put forward to explain the observations. In this series, we will look at two: Plate Tectonics, or sea floor spreading and the Expanding Earth. “Continental drift” was an attempt to explain the observation by many explorers and cartographers since the days of Magellan that the edges of the continents seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In 1915, Alfred Wegener forma
