Cintia Panizza Wrote:
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> I am sorry, English it is not my native language.
> . When I said continental drift I meant the
> shifting of the crust.
> I did not know about continental drift until
> yesterday. I o
> always knew about shifting of the crust. Yesterday
> I learned something new. I am sorry for the
> confusion.
>
> Cintia Panizza
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I am sorry that I can't find a good page in Italian to refer you to. But the Earth's crust is very thick (continents) and only moves very slowly. The amount of force to make a big continent move a dozen miles or more would actually break apart the planet.
Think of the Earth as being a big slice of Tiramisu -- the stuff on the bottom is the metallic core and the whipped cream and cocoa powder on top as the crust. Now take your finger and push one corner of that top layer (whipped cream and cocoa) to the opposite side.
The "polar slide/shift" theory that Hapgood/Hancock uses is insisting that even after you took your finger and shoved that edge across your tiramisu, that the whole slice still looks very nice --but the dessert is turned upside down.
Science (and chefs) say "that's nonsense." Tiramisu has a thick, sticky top layer... and so does the Earth.
The "comet" theory (turned into tiramisu) says that you can turn a plate of tiramisu around 180 degrees if you throw a bean onto it as hard as you can. (science says that no comet is big enough to flip the Earth over)
I hope this helps.
-- Byrd
Moderator, Hall of Ma'at