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Re: Time and Gravity

From Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Time and Gravity
Date 2016-06-28 08:43 -0500
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On 6/27/2016 5:43 PM, Thomas Heger wrote:
> 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.

Uh, no. Not at all. On geological scales, a mountain is more like 
compact dirt. Dirt you can push up. Dirt you can fold. Dirt you can 
erode with wind and water.
Do you think of a river stone as being able to be folded like this?
http://saturniancosmology.org/files/geology/Sect2_1a_files/1561965140_66cda99463.jpg

I think you are waaaaaaaay overestimating the rigidity of mountains and 
plates on a geological scale, just because you cannot personally fold a 
plate.

>
> 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.

Few cases do not make a rule.

>
> 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.

Because it wasn't always at that elevation.

>
> 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.

As can happen far away from the junction.

>
>>>
>>> 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.

Right, and how far away is that trench from the desert?

>
> 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.

But it is not. From your own cited Wikipedia article about the mantle:
"The mantle makes up about 84% of Earth's volume.[14] It is 
predominantly solid but in geological time it behaves as a very viscous 
fluid."


>
>> 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.

Wikipedia, your own article, says otherwise. See above.

>>>
>>> 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.

This is counter to measurement.

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

This is also counter to measurement.

>
> 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.

But plate tectonics does not assume hexagonal plates like a soccer ball 
or flat rectangular conveyor belts.

>
> 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.

I'm sorry, are you asking me to inform you what plate tectonics actually 
says, rather than you bothering to learn a little about what you're 
talking about?

>
> ..
>
>
> TH


-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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                Re: Time and Gravity Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-01 22:16 +0200
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