“50% of this retard-country deny evolution took place on this planet…and believe the Bible over modern science on many points. I digress.”

No, you didn’t digress, you started out of the gate on four left feet and fell immediately on your face. Again, the animation is very cool (the guy’s a Marvel Comics artist, for goodness’ sake!), the hypothesis no more bizarre than Max’s Multiverses, and no matter how disfavored, it indeed exists. Attempts to censor my speech or threaten this blog into submission will earn you no great respect from this end.

“As always–and in ALL things–if YOU are honestly interested in the TRUTH, you will find it. Just go look for it.”

I am not seeking any absolute ‘TRUTH’ with this series, and if I were seeking it in other aspects of my life it would not be reflected here. Science doesn’t deal in big-t ‘TRUTH’. It deals with FAPP* and falsification.
[* For All Practical Purposes]

My suggestion is to go back to the top of this page, carefully read paragraph 1, then carefully read paragraph 2. Read them again if you need to, see if you can parse the meaning of the words and sentences. I assure you there is meaning, though it appears you missed it. Perhaps it was the light tone, the humorous description, or the dread word “fun.” I do understand that word goes right over many people’s heads altogether.

Now, you all keep saying that the keywords are “odd,” “discounted,” and “controversial.” However, I believe the real keyword here “theory.” Just as evolution is a theory, so is plate tectonics, and so is this and a theory is an unproven scientific idea. Now, scientists may find evidence to that may help to prove the theory, but it remains a theory nonetheless.

Technically, plate tectonics is nothing more than a bunch of scientifically based ideas about the earth and just because it is more accepted by the scientific community doesn’t neccessarily make it true. Now, I realize that some elements of physics may seem to discount this theory, but who is to say that there isn’t at least some truth to it? Because the real is that we just don’t know. So instead of putting other people’s ideas down, why don’t you try to see things from their point of view and try to come to an understanding as to why they would come to such a conclusion, because that is what science is really about.

You say that the first clue that the theory is wrong is something that it’s creator says and does. I though the first (and only) clue that a theory is wrong are arguments (and supporting facts) exposing it’s error.

I thought a scientific theory stands or falls on its own merrits, not the merrits of its creator. Should we start rating scientific theories based on the personality quirks of those involved?

Thanks for the interesting article, but I’ll take your suggestion and not read any further.

Kevin, you argument has 2 parts:
A) A planet can’t have a an increase in gravity without an increase in mass. Are you assuming that the gravitational constant has been the same everywhere always? Can you prove this?

B) There’s no way the planet could gain or lose all that mass. What evidence do you have for this? I could probably think of a hundred ways this could happen. Here’s a few: 1) Dark matter turns out to be some type of WIMP, and the earth for some reason has been accumulating them over the past billion years. 2) The neutrinoes that supposedly pass through the earth get caught in some weird type of field deep in the core, generated by the radioactive material there. Over eons, their tiny bit of mass begins to add up. 3) The steady state theory turns out to be correct, and matter is spontaneously created. 4) A mini black hole has bored it’s way to the earth’s center. (could happen if it was moving slowly enough relative to the earth’s movement.) 5) An advanced race of aliens is using their matter transporter to send mass to the earth’s core in a huge engineering endevor. 6) Wormhole somewhere under the earth’s surface. 7) An anomoly of time and space caused a warp that contains a hidden pocket of mass that is slowly escaping from that pocket. (I like to call this the Bermuda Triangle theory) Matter is leaking through from another brane. 9) It turns out that all living creatures do have a soul, the soul has mass, and when the creature dies, it’s soul descends into the earth (the origional mass of the soul comes from a different plane). 10) There are structures in the mantle that are something like superconductors, which are able to capture electromagnetic radiation. As they do so, their effective mass increases.

Well, a hundred, I don’t know.

Many suposedly crackpot theories have turned out to be true. Sometimes they have caused changes in the assumptions science has used for hundreds of years. Who would have thought that going faster gave you more mass? This doesn’t mean that you should believe every outragous claim made, just that you shouldn’t sweep away a theory because it violates an assumption you hold dear. Think outside the box.