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DINOSAURS AND THE EXPANDING EARTH
Here's a book review for Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth so you can see what the scientific press think about the book. I'll add some more (hopefully) once I've obtained permission from the reviewers.
GEOLOGY TODAY - "Stephen Hurrell's Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth is
something completely different. Hurrell's thesis - yes, this is an
original work rather than a re-presentation of existing knowledge -
is that large dinosaurs were forced to give way to smaller mammals
because the Earth's gravity has increased, making the life of large
creature untenable. Fair enough; but, surprisingly, he then links
that to the expanding Earth hypothesis - surprising because if the
Earth has expanded, gravity at the planet's surface will have
decreased, unless some other phenomenon has more than
compensated for it. Hurrell`s compensation mechanism is that the
Earth is continuously increasing in mass. Some might regard Hurrell
as a crank, but he's much more intelligent than that, and his thesis
is well presented. On the other hand, it's probably fair to say his
work has not been peer-reviewed, in which case he will find that he
has few serious readers, who are (usually rightly) suspicious of
publication outside the well-known circle of academic publishers.
Some of Hurrrell's ideas appear strange, but stranger things have
appeared in mainstream scientific publications. From GEOLOGY TODAY -
Blackwell Science Ltd, July-August 1996. www.blackwell-science.com
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GEOLOGY TODAY
"his thesis is well presented" |