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Re: Time and Gravity

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Time and Gravity
Date 2016-06-28 00:43 +0200
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Am 27.06.2016 21:27, schrieb Odd Bodkin:

>>>> Plate tectonics assumes, that lifting is caused by plates, which dive
>>>> under the other plates in a process called subduction.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is contrary to facts, since such a process would not leave the
>>>> surface levelled. Instead we would expect deformation of the plate
>>>> above
>>>> the subducting plate (what we do not find).
>>>
>>> Why would you expect that?
>>
>> Plates are not smooth and of even thickness, but have form - at least
>> on the upper side. This form is called 'landscape' and could include
>> valleys and mountains.
>>
>> So subduction of such a plate would lift uneven. There would be more
>> lift, if the plate is thicker and less, if the plate is thinner.
>
> yes, so?
>
>>
>> Since such differences would inevitably occur, the plate on top could
>> not stay horizontal.
>
> Nor does one expect it to. On the other hand, since the crust has some
> elasticity to it, you don't expect it to tip in total like a table-top.
>

A mountain is essentially a large stone. The tectonic plate is mainly 
also a LARGE stone.

Stones have a little elasticity, but that us negligible.

So I wouldn't base a theory on the elasticity of rocks.

>>>>
>>>> E.g. the Atacama desert is very horizontal, even if the plane is about
>>>> 1100m above sea-level.
>>>
>>> Yes, so? What does this have to do with mountains?
>>>
>>
>> Building of theories goes like this:
>>
>> you think about a phenomenon and estimate, why this happened. The
>> explanation you have in mind is then put under scrutiny and questioned,
>> whether or not that mechanism would work.
>>
>> Here we have the problem, whether or not mountains and their creation
>> could be explained by what plate tectonic assumes.
>>
>> I said: no, it won't work that way, since if you push a large piece of
>> rock beneath another one to lift that up, the upper level will not stay
>> horizontal.
>
> And the upper level does NOT stay horizontal. Already experimentally
> established.

It does not always stay horizontal. But is a few cases we know, that 
plates stay horizontal to a fraction of a degree.

This is the case for Lake Trajan near Fiomicino. That was the former 
harbour of Rome.

Since the current water line is exactly parallel to the former quays, we 
can be certain, that 'lifting of that lake by 8m didn't cause the 
slightest angle to the horizontal orientation of that building (and the 
plate it sits on).
>>
>> But formerly horizontal planes stay horizontal for long times (Atacama
>> desert) and to a astonishing degree (Portus Romae).
>
> Atacama desert is not at the point of push-up.


Well, actually the desert is quite high in the mountains. Since it was 
formerly a sea, the question remains, how salt-water got there.

Plate tectonic assumes, it was pushed up by subduction of plates underneath.

But the plane is remarkably horizontal, hence subduction for about 15 
million years did not cause the ground to get tilted a bit.

>>
>> Since the Atacama desert is high in the mountains, plates tectonics
>> needed a lot of stuff pushed underneath that desert, hence a lot of
>> chance to get out of horizontal orientation.
>
> Where is the plate junction compared to the Atacama desert?

There is a large trench along the coast of Chile. Plate tectonics 
assumes, this is where the floor of the Pacific ocean bends down and 
dives under the Andes.

My alternative explanation for that trench is, that the plate boundary 
is caused by growth and is actually a spreading zone.
...
>>
>> The reason, why this assumption is (or is not) actually true, that was
>> the subject of our discussion.
>>
>> I wrote, that plates cannot dive into a solid layer of higher density
>> and of higher pressure. There is also no obvious force, that would try
>> to push the plates underneath another one.
>
> I disagree.
>
> To start with, let's just examine whether there are any evidences of
> currents at all and what might be responsible for them.

If the upper mantle is actually a solid, there will be not much current.

> Notice that there are both atmospheric and oceanic currents, though
> you'd have to think a little bit to understand what the force is that
> drives those currents. But it IS there, and it is identifiable. So then
> ask yourself the question whether the same root cause can be responsible
> for mantle currents.


I simply cannot measure such currents or the solidity of the mantle.

So, for now, I trust Wikipedia and assume, that the upper mantle is solid.
>>
>> And the landscape we find in real does not fit to the expected
>> deformations, which such a process would create.
>
> I disagree. I think YOU have certain expectations (like the whole plate
> tipping upward) that are unrealistic and not actually predicted by plate
> tectonics, and in fact not predictable from any real properties of the
> crust in the first place.


I predict, that a plate behaves more or less like a really big stone.

And this plate rests on the underground and is 'glued' there by the 
force of gravity.

I wrote, that stretching of these 'conveyor belts' sideways (to make it 
fill the hexagon) would cause deformations, which we do not find in nature.

The subsequent pushing of plates together would also create 'ripples'. 
But those are not found in reality.

It is also not obvious, what forces would act in such a way.

So my conclusion was, that plate tectonics assumes a mechanism, that 
cannot work.


> But YOUR naive expectations, which are unobserved, are irrelevant to
> what plate tectonics actually says.
>
So please help out and tell the audience, how that stretching and 
pushing actually works.

..


TH

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                Re: Time and Gravity Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-06-29 12:17 -0500
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                Re: Time and Gravity Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-06-29 13:02 -0500
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                Re: Time and Gravity Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-06-30 08:14 -0500
                Re: Time and Gravity Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-01 05:12 +0200
                Re: Time and Gravity Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 07:46 -0500
                Re: Time and Gravity Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-01 22:16 +0200
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