I asked readers of my book to send me any comments about the Reduced Gravity Earth theory and its impact for other sciences and I’ve now received hundreds of replies. Some of these are reproduced below with the newest at the top.
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Psychological fossil of low gravity in dreams?
The expanding earth idea is a bold and very interesting challenge to current thinking, and as such demands unbiased consideration, in view of some supportive evidence. Certainly, the emotional-blackmail argument of ‘peer reviewers’ not accepting the new notion is inappropriate here and can be safely ignored. What is suggested is a paradigm shift – whereby, if correct, most people by definition are proved wrong. Jacob Bronowski reminded us that ‘Science advances when someone asks an impertinent question’ (such as – Instead of the sun going round the earth, could it be the opposite?) This lesser order of ‘peer scientists’ has shamefully vilified many pioneers of previous paradigm shifts. Science should of course constantly attempt to undermine its present stance, but we see that most ‘scientists’ – being mere followers of fashion – do not and cannot advance the pursuit of truth – they are blockers, who stunt and thwart science in its necessary advance. They waste time. We clearly need to search for anomalies, on the earth and other planets, which might support the revolutionary idea of an expanding earth.
As an innovator in sleep and dreams research (I conducted the world’s first research into ‘lucid’ dream for my PhD) I wish to state here a common phenomenon of the dream state that could conceivably be linked to an expanding earth. It is the universally experienced sense of low gravity in dreams – which is not in our daily experience. I posit the notion that the experience is a ’psychological fossil’. In our very early development, as ground-dwelling creatures, nature programmed into our brain the then effects of gravity (perhaps for REM sleep), and that factor stayed fixed over time even though the living environment changed to trees. There, bodily paralysis became essential to protect us from falling should we act out a dream. A similar example of this rule of ‘leave it be, even though it is redundant’ in our development, is that of ocular movements being exempt from REM sleep paralysis – moving eyes won’t be dangerous in the trees. Let us embrace brave new and radical suggestions in our understanding of the world and look at them without the quasi-racism of ‘theoryism’.
Keith Hearne BSc MSc PhD
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Magnetic Reversals
Have you read Robert Felix's book Not by Fire but by Ice? I think your research goes well with his, and actually you would compliment each other. He talks about the huge amounts of material being created during magnetic field reversals or excursions (he then goes on to explain how volcanism during these events warms the seas, cools the air, and brings about ice ages). Where Felix didn't get the whole picture was in another book--Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps--where he talks about the size of dinosaurs as simply a mutation. Well, there were lots of mutations at each extinction event to create new species, but I'm inclined to believe that the earth's size and gravity certainly determined the size of life forms. Thanks for your research!
Sam Sytsma
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Expanding Earth
What if the Planet is at a continuous growth, that similar to a Star and in it's beginning stage is nourishing. However, as it progresses in age it becomes unstable and is volatile and destructive becoming a black hole ... eventually.
Kevin Norman, Huntington Beach, Ca.
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Nuclear Reactions in the Molten core
There is evidence supporting nuclear reactions that occur in metals under high pressure. Have you looked into LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) as the possible cause? The Earth’s molten core, exposure to gas atoms, and high pressure should be adequate to sustain such reactions.
Adolfo
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Scaling Works
I'm understanding scaling factor pretty well now.
You've probably seen this, a very well written site that conflicts with expanding earth theory I believe, but in a novel way.
http://www.dinosaurtheory.com/solution.html
Yet, I'm for the expanding earth theory.
Jim West
NYC
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It’s all pseudoscientific
A number of people have cited you as an authority on the concept of reduced gravity during my discussion on the expanding earth topic. This is an obvious appeal to authority, which is ironic since many seem to say during our debates that authority isn't to be trusted. One is left to assume that they only trust their authority and the authorities they quote.
At any rate, your book (1994) is one I happened upon once (once people learn of my interest in pseudo science they usually send wacky things my way). You actually write in a very well-thought and logical manner. Your ideas are without substance, but you are intelligent, nonetheless. Your primary thesis is that the Earth's gravity has increased making the life of large dinosaurs impossible, giving way to smaller, less gravity-challenged creatures. This increase in gravity, you contend, is due to the expansion of the Earth. Unfortunately, your work hasn't survived peer-review and has been effectively refuted. The gist is basic physics: if the Earth truly did expand, gravity would have decreased, not increased as you suggest.
Bill Jacks
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Why is expansion exponential?
You assume in your book that the expansion rate was initially very slow and then increased exponentially. What justification do you have for this?
Jack Watson, Canada
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Some objections to an expanding Earth
I can't believe in an expanding Earth. My primary objections that result in the dismissal of an expanding Earth are:
1. The lack of an accepted process by which the Earth's radius could increase.
2. The inability to find an actual increase of Earth's radius by modern measurements.
3. The discovery of evidence for the process of subduction.
4. The discovery of evidence that the Earth's mantle is convecting.
Do you have any evidence that might change my mind?
Dmitri Fadeyev
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Muscle Strength is a Cube Function
You write in your book:
As any animal becomes larger its mass (and hence its weight) varies in relation to its unit length cubed, while the area (and hence the strength) of its legs varies in relationship to its unit length squared. This mathematical relationship governs the size of all life, so as animals increase in size their strength-to-weight ratio reduces until they reach an upper size limit.
