Einstein and Polar Shifts

[klaatu]

Maybe we should take Polar Shifts more serious as reason for what our planet is going through.... again Natural Cycles......


"A great many empirical data indicate that at each point of the earth's surface that has been carefully studied, many climatic changes have taken place, apparently quite suddenly. This, according to Mr. Hapgood, is explicable if the virtually rigid outer crust of the earth undergoes, from time to time, extensive displacement ..."[2]

Gradualistic theory - as opposed to catastrophism - has served to this day as the dominant paradigm to explain not only the origin and life of plants and animals, but that of the geology and paleontology of the planet.

'gradualistic notions' of geology were 'a habit of mind' and 'not necessarily justified by the empirical data'. Defying contemporaries and predecessors alike, Einstein went right to the heart again. The theory of earth crust displacement formulated by Charles H. Hapgood - which 'electrified' Einstein - has since gained critical acclaim and support from specialists in superficially unrelated fields.

"I find your arguments very impressive and have the impression that your hypothesis is correct. One can hardly doubt that significant shifts of the crust of the earth have taken place repeatedly and within a short time."[3]

In contrast to Einstein's enthusiasm for Hapgood's inherently catastrophic theory of crustal displacement, Charles Darwin went so far as to suggest that "he who can read Sir Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology and yet does not admit how vast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume [Origin of Species]."

Darwin's suggestion was right. Empirical evidence suggesting sudden shifts of the earth's crust and significant climatic changes do not mix easily with the theory of evolution. Without the vast, uninterrupted ages of relative geological tranquility Darwin's theory requires for the evolution of species, the doors to his theory yawn wide open. Better close that book then, for now.

As for the mechanism that might dislocate the earth's crust from it's core, Einstein wrote:

"In a polar region there is a continual disposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth's rotation acts on these unsymetrically deposited masses, and produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced this way will, when it reaches a certain point, produce a movement of the earth's crust over the rest of the earth's body, and this will displace the polar regions toward the equator."[

 

[uscitizen]

So if we let global waming melt the polar Ice , no crustal shift will happen ?

 

[Cypress]

This Charles Hapgood chap was a professor of history. He wasn't a geologist. His theory of "crustal displacement" was developed in the 1950s, and never take seriously in the earth science academic community. Indeed, his "theory" was discredited with the development of plate tectonic theory beginning in the 1960s.

 

[Cypress]

"In a polar region there is continual deposition of ice, which is not symmetrically distributed about the pole. The earth’s rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses, and produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in this way will, when it has reached a certain point, produce a movement of the earth’s crust over the rest of the earth’s body..."


Even Einstein shows his lack of formal training in the geologic sciences here.


Einstein assumes that non-symetrically distributed ice sheets on "a rigid crust" will produce a disequilibrium that, which when it reaches a "critical point", will impart a centrifugal momentum on the land mass.


Einstein is wrong here: The earth's crust is not "rigid". Isostacy (the ability of the crust to flex, or "depress" to accomadate greater mass placed upon it creates an equilibrium in the crust, even if a two mile thick ice sheet is on the surface of the continent.

Second, its not physically possible to a continent to catostrophically "slip" across the mantle to be displaced by hundreds of miles over the course of a few thousand years. Hapgood imagined that the earth's mantle was molten, providing a lubricating layer for the continental crust to "slip" across. We now know that the mantle's aetheonsphere, upon which the continent rest, is NOT a liquid material. It is solid rock, which while it behaves plastically, it is not physically capable of "slipping" a continent hundreds of miles over a short period of geologic time.



http://www.skrause.org/writing/papers/hapgood_and_ecd.shtml