Birth of Earth

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  1. geologyrocks Registered Senior Member

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    If I remember correctly, living things have to do 5 things to be considered living:
    - reproduce
    - eat
    - expel waste
    - respond to stimuli
    - regulate their own body

    These could be wrong as I've not done biology since school

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    The Earth doesn't reproduce (I've seen no baby Earth's around...), eat, expel waste or respond to stimuli. It kind of regulates itself (as do many complex systems). In short, the Earth does not fulfil all the criteria for being alive. The fact that it's composed of minerals (by definition inorganic, regular arrangements of molecules) also points to the fact that it's not alive. It doesn't grow (expand or shrink). It's been here for 4.6 billion years (or 4,600,000,000 years), as have the rest of the planets in this solar system. In short, it's a sphere of rock, floating in space, with a thin coating of life on the surface (or top few hundred kms).

    Please, read some reputable webpages - you've been given plenty of links on this forum, in other fora and by email by lot's of people - go read them. Absorb and understand. Your "theory" is incorrect and has no basis in evidence other than vague coincidences and spurious observations. Really, I've been a geologist for 14+ years, have read the books you haven't, and have spent > 6 years doing geological research. Trust my expert opinion (you should be glad of this, it usually costs a lot of money to get such an opinion!) - your theory is incorrect.
     
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  3. geologyrocks Registered Senior Member

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    Just to show some very recent research on subduction zones in the Pacific, this was in my inbox yesterday:

    See another line of evidence for subduction! Geochronological data on hotspot volcanoes. Seriously, how much evidence do you want? the literature is full of it. A search on Web of Science with "subduction" in the title gives 3260 result. I have a PDF of the 1st 50 (including abstracts) if you'd like. I tried to upload it, but it failed...

    I thought it might be of interest to see how EE was examined in the literature too. Trying the same exercise for "expanding earth" produces 52 results. A quick scan reveals some very old papers (60's & 70's), which are discussed EE. Some more recent (80's) from the Journal of Indian Geology which appear to be debunking it in terms of energy requirements and few more obscure articles. However, the older papers (which span '63 to early 80's - 1981 appears to be the last credible article) are very insightful. It appears that EE was seriously considered in the early 70's (few publications in Nature), but evidence since then has simply discounted it - projections for change in Earth's radius since the Devonian is less than 0.1cm/yr, which means that although a possible expansion of 1000km might be possible, this is too small to account for the present ocean basins, even if they started growing in the Devonian (which they didn't). Coupled with major ocean basins being present during most of Earth's history, the stability in the volume of the hydrosphere and countless other arguments, meant that EE died a death (although very long and lingeringly!).

    The point I'm trying to make here is that if you actually did some research, the answers you seek are right there, laid out clearly, for anyone to read (if they have access

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  5. jsispat SURESH BANSAL Registered Senior Member

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    1. tree or plants are alive.did they fulfill all requrements of alive.
    2. i have already given all explantion that fulfilling all requirement of alive of earth.
    3. i have mentioned that earth is produced from seeds that are meteroids and planets also produce that seeds out of very few can germinate.
    4. universe is like a soil for planets and they sre growing in that soil with the help of sun they are making there foods and eating.
    5. actual the whole process is like a growth of tree in forest same process planets growth in universe.
     
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  7. jsispat SURESH BANSAL Registered Senior Member

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    moon is the baby of earth.
    actual moon is germinated from seed produced by earth.
     
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    :roflmao:

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  9. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    So the moon is alive as well then huh.. ? How does your theory account for that one ?
     
  10. EndLightEnd This too shall pass. Registered Senior Member

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    Ok geology Ill submit for now, but Im still gonna be looking for something else.

    I want to go back to something you said about the moon earlier...

    If they had formed so long ago, why is there such a significant lack of craterization apparent ONLY in these huge areas?

    Craters are all over the place on the moon, but almost completely absent within these mares, as if it is new material.

    I havent found a sufficient explanation yet.
     
  11. geologyrocks Registered Senior Member

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    There was a period of heavy bombardment of planets in the first 600Myr or so of the solar system. This finished at around 4Ga. As the mares are ~3Ga, they have very few craters. The same is true for other planets. Look at Mars' northern volcanic plains - almost crater free compared to the south. Same reason. So you are right - it is new material.
     
  12. EndLightEnd This too shall pass. Registered Senior Member

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    Why are the mares only on the side facing earth?
     
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    Probably because that's the side that the lunar crust is thinnest on.

    There is at least one mare on the far side, it's just smaller.
     
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  16. EndLightEnd This too shall pass. Registered Senior Member

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    Link?
     
  17. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    It's pay per view, but http://rimg.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/extract/60/1/221 talks about the crust being 15km thinner on the near side then on the far side (which makes sense, when you think about it).

    It has also been suggested that the difference in distribution of vulcanism might be due to the difference in the distribution of radioactive elements (a heat source) observed by the Lunar Prospector mission

    Finally, the video is factually inaccurate.

    There are several maria on the far side, they're just not as extensive.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Moon_PIA00304.jpg
     
  18. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    In addition to the other replies note that this may be a) pure chance b) significant in some other way we haven't determined yet.

    I'm not sure when tidal lock set in, but if it preceded mare eruption then tidal heating superimposed on legacy temperatures would likely have been higher on the side closest to the Earth and so vulcanism would have been more sustainable. (Pure speculation!)
     
  19. DwayneD.L.Rabon Registered Senior Member

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    From center layer (carbon) to near surface (silicon)

    Carbon 440 miles thick
    Nitrogen 243 miles thick
    Oxygen 174 miles thick
    Florine 19 miles thick
    Neon 50 miles thick

    Sodium 22 miles thick
    Mg 14 miles thick
    Alumin. 83 miles thick
    Silicon 2.7 miles thick

    In my assement of the moons compostion, it appears that the center of the moon is, or the majority of the moon is of gaseous elements,(or liquid in normal state) where the gas portion of the moons interior comprises 486 miles of the radius of the moon. The moon appears to be a mere shell.

    This type of condition is suggestive of a early formation with the earth, having a slow seperation rate from the proto-earth.

    So it also seems that the moon would have out gasing marks on its surface.

    The thickness of the aluminium on the moon is as thick as the aluminium layer on earth, so the moon really could absorb asteroid strikes.


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  21. jsispat SURESH BANSAL Registered Senior Member

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    what about my theory that earth is alive and growing day by day by absorbing energy from universe with the help of sun.
     
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  23. DwayneD.L.Rabon Registered Senior Member

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    Well jsispat
    when looking at the earth as a living form, it depends on what stage you are determing it as a life form.

    within the solar system it would be considered a organ such as a heart or liver. A organ that interacts with the other planets in our solar system. The role of a organ is to complete a specific proccess such as the secreation of a chemical that the body or another organ is dependant upon. making survival possible.
    If we look at the earths as a organ then the communication or reaction that makes it a member of the solar system, the reaction that other planets are dependant upon would be a gravitional signal or pretubance. in such a view the moon would play a significant role.
    Certainly the world exspans and contracts and has oscilation/vibration simular to a organ of a living body such as the liver.

    Generally speaking the earth is contracting becoming denser overtime as it approachs the sun, the center of solar gravity. evenso there are conditions that cause the earth to exspand.

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