oh my god!

I wonder if you can possibly fathom how soothing this video really is to me! Oh. My. God. All the stress has drained out of me, and I am serene at last. I am not kidding, not even the tiniest bit. Go look!

Quoth Albert Einstein: Truth makes music. So now I sit back and discern if this restful music is truth music or wish music. If it is true, there is an option. If not, well, er... not.

Very restful viewing, but don't read the dolts in the comments section. They think this is some "creationist" theory... because, I guess, it goes against accepted scientific theory (sometimes, often, referred to as "fact", yet another "evolutionary" scientific concept).

Some hours later: No this is profoundly great! I've been off into his website and Wikipedia and the Skeptics' interview podcast and the Wired article about him -- Neal Adams, famous cartoonist and graphic artist, and armchair scientist -- and I'm giddy with the idiocy on all sides! What fun! He starts out with the same point every time, and everyone, including him, seems to miss the signal significance of his original point, going off down the cosmic garden path and returning with a thud to earth each time.

First I got pissed that Wikipedia, of all things, lists his scientific crusade under "Trivia". If something so central to his intellectual life is listed this way, you want to smack the authors of his listing. But you immediately see why! They're listening to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, and taking their cues from that.

Now, I've bumped up against these bozos thousands of times on the Net, and a bigger bunch of fatally-anthropocentric "experts" may never be found. The vast bulk of their argumentation for anything rests squarely with whatever the herd finds acceptable. They hew to form on this podcast. And the Wired piece appears to be following in their footsteps, from what of it I've read so far.

Everybody is missing his point about plate tectonics. He's stating that the continents do not just fit together on the Atlantic side, but, less obviously, on the Pacific side as well. If that is a fact, and he sounds mighty convinced, and makes convincing videos of it as well, plate tectonics has been dealt a possibly lethal blow. This gets skipped and everyone goes off arguing physics, something about which none of these people knows enough to argue, but they do anyway. It's noted that the original geologist who came up with this expanding earth theory was shot down by physicists insisting it would mean matter would have to be being created to be true. So he and all his interlocutors go off squabbling about this, and leave the basic point of his thesis completely alone. If the continents all fit together into a smaller globe, the earth is expanding and plate subduction is probably wrong, to one degree or another.

How could the earth be expanding if matter were not being created? I'm sorry. This seems entirely too simple to be missed. Who says its density is remaining the same? Earth could have the identical mass as ever and be three times bigger than when all the continents were its unbroken crust. It could shrink to the size of a baseball and not lose a drop of mass. What the heck am I missing here? Bubkes.

Isn't someone interested enough to construct a foam rubber globe with crusty land masses and squishing it down till the continents collide neatly -- or don't collide neatly -- to see if there's a reason to go forward with the wonderful implications of earth losing its density from the inside out? He has done extensive work with space probe photographs of different planets and moons, and makes a good case for all of them expanding in exactly the same way. What is wrong with hearing this? How much does that actually set science on its ear, and even if the answer to that question is that it's set all the way on its ear, it's an elegant assertion! Easy enough, I'd think, to measure. What a bunch of pompous asses we have telling us what's trivial and what's not.

Forget all the other elegant things he calls proof and you do not, though certainly do not fail to hear them, just check this one measurable assertion before you discount him. His ideas rock. Jupiter's expansion created a shield against asteroids for earth! National Geographical Data Center maps of sea floor ages would seem to shore up his thesis, so to speak. Truly, you gotta check him out! Another fabulous thing he posits is that the extinction event for dinosaurs was simply their sudden inability to migrate when the oceans became too deep. They were migratory. Bird dinosaurs lived through it because they could keep migrating... according to a wild and wonderful maniac... according to Neal Adams. He could have a very consequentially-salient point and Herr Einstein, my hero, retains his post. Keep yer knickers smoothed. Breathe. Look into it.

(Right after you have stopped all the warring and our criminal government, that is.)