From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Applauses to Ted
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 06:58:03 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.163804@IASTATE.EDU> kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
>In article <1531@esl.ESL.COM>, markwc@barney.esl.com (Mark Christiansen)
>writes:
>> In article <ksand-111092153247@wintermute.apple.com>
>> ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>> >In article <1992Oct9.221500.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
>> >kmagnacca@eagle.wesleyan.edu wrote:
>> >>No, in fact it makes it easer, because the Earth's surface was
>> >>smoother then, so the Flood wouldn't have to cover such a depth;
>> >>then when the Earth contracted its surface assumed a bumpier form
>> >>and the water went into the lower parts, what are now the oceans.
>> 
>> >The hollow Earth would also explain where all the water disappeared.
>> >Down there! I guess we still have all the water under our feet. And
>> >that also increased the gravity force.
>> 
>> >Hepp, I think I could become a pretty good creation scientist...
>> 
>> Why does the Earth need to be hollow to be less dense?
>
>  Of course!!!  The earth wasn't actually less dense, it was the felt effect of
>molecular bonding.  You see, back then molecules had a lower binding force, and
>so were much larger.  The result: a larger Earth (as well as everything else (ie
>dinosaurs)).
>
>  Since saturn was bigger it would be more clearly visible in the sky and that
>explains all the Holden stuff.  Then, about, what, 4000 years ago, the binding
>force increased and everything in the universe shrunk.  This would even explain
>all the stories about giants: people who failed to shrink!

Close, but you've actually gotten it backwards--you see, we know from Doppler
shifting of distant celestial bodies that the universe is expanding at a
steady clip.  Indeed, the further away you look, the faster things are 
moving, with all indications that they are asymptotically approaching the
speed of light itself, proof that the universe is expanding as fast as it
possibly can.

The limit on this speed of expansion is the tensile strength of the fabric
of space itself--if it were stretched any faster, the universe would
fragment into microuniverses (indeed, this may have happened in the past,
stopping only when universes such as ours that are below this limit 
formed, stopping the fragmentation).  Nonetheless, as you might imagine,
largely thanks to initial micrononhomogeneity, local regions of greater
stress on the fabric of space occured, resulting in nanofractures in the
space-time continuum.  

You'll remember that P.A.M. Dirac envisioned space as a sea of zero-state
particles and predicted that "holes" in this zero-state field could exist
and would act just like regular particles except with opposite quantum
numbers of their matter counterparts.  These "holes," called antimatter,
were subsequently discovered in high-energy physics experiments and, in
fact, behaved just as predicted.  

Yet, Dirac himself actually got it backwards--you see, nanofracturation
of the space-time continuum creates holes, not unlike stretching ordinary
fabric creates tears in its surface--we, and all the "ordinary matter"
we take for granted is really antimatter, "holes" in a sea of zero-state
particles that forms the fabric of empty space.

Antimatter produces gravity and, in doing so, warps the fabric of space
further, increasing the density of nanofracturation, causing a uniform
expansion with time of all "matter" in the universe.  (Real matter,
however, is doomed, for in an expanding universe, its gravitational
field results in the creation of antimatter in its vicinity which then
annihilates it in a burst of radiation that, in sufficient quantity,
we call a quasar.  We don't see any quasars nearby because, as you might
expect, all the matter in the universe was annihilated billions of years
ago.)

Dinosaurs, you see, had no trouble walking because, a hundred million
years ago, the earth and the dinosaurs themselves were smaller--both
our planet and their fossils have been undergoing a steady increase 
in size as they accumulate more "holes" (what we think of as matter)
by virtue of their gravitational stressing of space.  Indeed, it is
possible that, back in the time of the dinosaurs, even the vaunted
ultrasaurus may have been little bigger than a shetland pony as it
wandered the surface of the then moon-sized earth.  Back then the world
was far smaller and the water now in our oceans was more than enough
to flood the entire earth.  (You'll note that there is ample geophysical
evidence that the oceans have been steadilly shrinking as the earth
has enlarged--back in the days of the dinosaurs, much of what is now
dry land was covered with water; you need only look at any of the
multitudes of fossil sea life to be found on dry land to prove this
to yourself.)

Trygve   (Do you think I'd be more convincing if I had typed in a few
          words at random in all-caps?)