Ever since the Geological Society of Europe learned about humans, people have spent a lot of time thinking about how the Earth came to be the way it is, where the moon came from, why we get earthquakes and more. Not long ago, Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for his film “An Inconvenient Truth,” which suggested that water levels could rise and drown many of humanity’s greatest civilizations.
However, that doesn’t seem to be happening at all, instead saying that if all the ice melted, the oceans could rise by less than a few feet in 150 years if they did rise. Still others suggest that the oceans have been retreating for millions of years. A gentleman with multiple theories on things like isostatic rebound, evolution of ancient civilizations, earth expansion, seismic creep and receding oceans may have done more research on these events and can prove it – doesn’t deserve a Nobel Prize.
The scientist’s name was Richard Guy, and as we discussed this whole set of concepts with him, it occurred to us, “If Al Gore won an award for saying that sea levels are rising, and wouldn’t it be nice to to go down and win?”
The theory of the expansion of the earth seems feasible, if the earth expands, then the sea level will not fall at all and will not rise. It’s very interesting, and yes, you can see where this explanation makes sense, and even applies to Occam’s razor, since we all learned about the Pangea supercontinent theory in school. I really enjoyed Richard Guy’s book, it’s very entertaining.
In some places, beach erosion may have damaged coastlines, leading observers to believe that sea levels are rising when they are not. Richard’s theory and comment about Earth’s expansion would also give us more activity on the Ring of Fire, tectonic plates, and about 60,000 (?) underwater volcanoes, which would heat the water, which would heat the air? Cause – climate change or global warming.
Believe it or not, although it wasn’t part of his original concept, it is now. Many scientists would say that the theory of man-made “global warming” is an epic political debate, and while people should avoid pollution for other obvious reasons, Al Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just as much as Paris Hilton. Of course, Al Gore also has many calling him a saint for bringing this to the forefront.
Richard Guy’s theory bodes ill for China’s Three Gorges Dam project, though anyone who’s ever studied “extreme engineering” would call the whole thing the world’s greatest man-made disaster yet to happen. In fact, I immediately noticed that it was an important allusion to Richard’s theory.
The Madrid earthquake rupture in Central America is a terrible idea indeed, there are too many bridges crossing it to count, and the number of people that can die from overflows, backflows, structures and bridges is unimaginable, but the best of us. It’s not an if, it’s natural. The book suggests that engineers of bridges, railroads, buildings and dams should consider seismic creep theory and the expanding Earth if they want to build strong infrastructure that will last for thousands of years. think about it.
