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Lately, however, there are doubts if
the global tectonics theory really can explain all geophysical
phenomena
[33].
The African continent should be
clamped between the two subduction zones of the Atlantic and the
Pacific
oceans which, however, is disproved by observations [33], p. 19:
“Instead of groaning under
the terrestrial vise, just the opposite happens: Africa spreads and
begins
to split along the east African trenches. In the east, big continent
slivers
separate along several rupture zones.”
The global tectonics theory also
has no sufficient explanation for the fact that Earth quakes do not
appear at
the plate borders only, but in the middle of continent massifs as well.
It seems likely that the present face of the Earth has been shaped by
both processes
- by the plate tectonics caused
by the so- called convection currents - and by the Earth expansion, the
motor of which is the gravitation that decreases with time. Only in
this
way, all geological phenomena we observe can be explained close
to
sufficiently.
Surprisingly, it was discovered
long before Dirac and Jordan that the Earth expansion is the
cause for
today’s wide space distribution of continents on our planet. In 1933
already,
O. C. Hilgenberg has, in his script ” Ueber den wachsenden Erdball”
[34]
translated= “About the growing Earth globe” impressively lined out how
well the mainland shelves can be combined into a gap- free puzzle on a
globe having approximately half the diameter of today’s Earth. The
reasons
given by him are no longer viable today, but his imagination of the
expanding Earth has lost nothing of its fascination.
Probably, the theory of the Earth
expansion is looking forward to a revival by the CTH!.
5.
World
models in comparison
In fact, the big bang theory had
only one competitor that had to be taken seriously: The “Steady State
Theory”
[13], p. 329 ff, developed by Th. Gold, H. Bondi and F. Hoyle.
It is based on the “perfect
cosmological
principle” which features not only a space but a time isotropy as well,
similar to a flowing river that always offers the same view. In
the
steady-state-universe, the creation happens at all times, to laws
existing
eternally.
It has no beginning in time as in
the big bang theory, but matter is continuously created in each part of
the
space and, to an observer, its velocity of expansion always appears
identical
[17], p. 331.
Even today, the steady state
universe
still radiates an admirable harmony and perfection [17], p. 333:
“The advocates of the Steady
State Theory have left us an important legacy that leads to some of the
deepest problems which modern cosmologists ponder; these problems
are extremely important again for that what we expect from the laws of
nature concerning the universe.”When the background radiation was
discovered
in 1965, it was believed that the steady state theory, at least from
the
view at that time, had to be abandoned. In 1967, D. Sciama wrote
[13], p. 501:
“I must add that for me, the
loss of the steady state theory was cause of great grief. The
Steady-State-Theory
had an impetus and beauty which the architect of the universe seems to
have overlooked, for reasons unexplainable.
The universe indeed is a
patchwork,
but I believe we must make the best of it.”
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