My book outlines the evidence that dinosaurs lived on a Reduced Gravity Earth and how this relates to an Increasing Mass Expanding Earth . . .
Have you ever wondered - Why were dinosaurs so big?
In 1987 I realized my engineering knowledge of scale effects on structures revealed a startling answer to the mystery of the dinosaurs’ massive size. Dinosaurs could never grow gigantic unless something dramatic had changed. Their bones, muscles and ligaments were too weak.
There was one answer that solved the dinosaurs’ large scale - a reduced gravity. A Reduced Gravity Earth would reduce the weight of all life, so the scale of all life could increase. A reduced gravity explains the dinosaurs' large size.
This thesis allowed me to calculate that dinosaurs' gravity would need to be about half the present force of gravity to explain the dinosaurs’ large size.
But celestial mechanics means that the Earth would need to be much smaller with reduced mass to have such a large reduced gravity.
At first it seemed unlikely that the ancient Earth could have been so small during the dinosaurs time, but I soon found that a number of geologists had already proposed that the ancient Earth was smaller and then expanded. Their reasoning had nothing to do with dinosaurs and was based purely on geological evidence. This is commonly known as the Expanding Earth theory and a number of geologists are still promoting this theory today.
Based on their geological evidence they proposed that the ancient Earth was about the same size predicted by the Reduced Gravity Earth. Both theories predict the same astonishing conclusion using completely different reasoning and evidence.
By 1994 I had published all these conclusions in my book, Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth, and the original concepts in the book have now received praise and support from a number of people.
This web site is an additional resource to the book and allows a convenient method to comment on the implications of a Reduced Gravity Earth as well as providing other useful information, like links to other web sites and suggestions for further reading.
Stephen Hurrell
A reduced gravity explains the dinosaurs’ large size
