A profound thought is in a constant process
of becoming. --
Albert Camus
Do we really know how old Earth is? Sure,
given what we know from the radiometric data method analyzing the
oldest Earth rocks found on Earth we have calculated dates
- However, given that the most direct means for calculating the
Earth's age is a Pb/Pb isochron age, derived from samples of the
Earth and meteorites - How can we really trust that this is the
full picture here of life as we know it?
I believe we are full of shit. And, scientists are constantly
being found out that they were full of shit and things are
different then they seem - which probably explains why they
painstakingly work to prove and support their theories and then
sometimes even hide them for no one to see because of fear of
ridicule like that of so many who exposed new ideas or shed some
light on truth - (there exists countless examples - some even
involving death due to ideas that countered or contradicted
popular belief).
Before the creation of Earth's landmass - (in which, we believe we
have the oldest rocks that ever existed onEarth) - what was Earth
like? Moreover, how do we know for certain that Earth did not see
a landmass before the one we know of and rely on as and believe
the original?
The Earth may have had one or many landmasses / continents and
islands before what we believe is the original and have had these
sucked back into the core and any evidence gone forever.
More importantly, I intuitively believe that cracks in the Earth's
lithosphere (in its crusted mantle) expsoing hot lava and maga
will soon grow do to continental shifts & convergence and
Convergent boundaries (where crust is destroyed as one plate dives
under another) will find Earth covered in water --- (where
predications of global warmimg and melting of the icebergs, ice
caps and glacier peaks may significantly add to Earth covered in
water) --- only given the cyclic chance of once again
creating itself and life similar to what we know or, at leat, can
imagine............
How Old Is Earth?
1. Ocean Floor Mapping (Mid Oceanic Ridge / Mid Atlantic Ridge)–
Sea Floor Spreading
2. There are four types of plate boundaries:
- Divergent
boundaries -- where new crust is generated as the plates pull
away from each other.
- Convergent
boundaries -- where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under
another.
- Transform
boundaries -- where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as
the plates slide horizontally past each other.
- Plate boundary
zones -- broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined
and the effects of plate interaction are unclear.
2. a. Oceanic-continental
convergence
3. The Great Ocean Conveyer Belt
4. Giant heat conveyor belts discovered inside Earth
5.
Evolution on a volcanic conveyor belt: using phylogeographic
reconstructions and K-Ar-based ages of the Hawaiian Islands to
estimate molecular evolutionary rates
6.
Plate Conveyor Belt. ... stationary hotspot can
create a trail of volcanic seamounts as a tectonic plate
passes over the hotspot. ...
7. Enigma of the Shifting Earth
We find many ancient texts expounding large cycles of time. The
ancient Greeks had their recurring ages of gold, silver, bronze,
and iron. The Mahabharata speaks of the four Hindu
yugas, which are parts of still larger cycles, in a subjective
way as divine beings. The yugas degenerate gradually from a long
golden age of purity to the much shorter age of kali, of
ignorance and passions, before beginning a new cycle of four
yugas. If we accept that planet earth is a living being, with
its own inner life, as theosophy asserts, its life-energies
influence the living creatures it hosts, just as we in turn
influence the earth. With the change of great terrestrial
cycles, the earth goes through many upheavals and tremendous
cataclysms. The larger the cycles, the more impressive the
changes or upheavals. Hindu literature tells us that the kali
yuga, which we entered 5,000 years ago, takes some 430,000 odd
years to complete; then, after cataclysmic events, a new golden
age will begin. Apart from minor cycles that are at play in this
gloomy age, we can rest assured that mankind still has plenty of
time to unlock the mysteries of the outer and inner life of the
earth!
(From Sunrise magazine, August/September 2004; copyright © 2004
Theosophical University Press)
A profound thought is in a constant process of becoming. --
Albert Camus
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