Geological falsification - the summary position

Earth expansion and geological falsification:- the summary position
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The question was:-
Using first-order structures of global deformation, how could
Earth Expansion be falsified? Can anyone think of a way?
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1. Earth expansion is rejected out of hand on grounds that there is no
known physical
mechanism.
2. There is no attempt to address the question from a geological point
of view. Not even
amongst geologists.

So wowed is everyone with the YEW_BEAUT brand spanking new tool of GPS
that they think (sorry, 'BELIEVE' - because they are clearly not
thinking) ..believe that if the Earth were
expanding, then this would clearly be measurable, and ignore the simple
fallacies of that argument. First, it is a nonsense to think that the
twenty years of measuring is a suitable window of opportunity to show
anything of the sort, when the time slot under consideration is three
hundred million. Geological process is known to be far from uniform
in many instances, and the displacements that *are* measured (as 'plate
movement') can easily be related to the decollement surface of the
transition zone (asthenosphere): the crust is skating on the mantle -
every day in concert with the Earth's spin. Whilst measurement is
certainly encouraging in respect of precision, the absence of recorded
vertical displacements is by no means evidence for absence of
expansion. First, many of the stations do show upwards displacement.
Secondly, there is the question of exactly how 'upwards' displaement
would be measured (lateral displacements would seem to be easier), and
the accuracy amongst noise of a measurement intrinsically 1/6th or
thereabout of those on the surface. And thirdly strong motions that
are recorded (sudden jumps) are not incorporated in the whispering
tumbleweed of signals.

(Somebody put me right. I read somewhere that the strong motions are
removed.)

Fourthly when it does happen, the effects are devastating as earthquake
victims well know.
Moreover there are (again) geological grounds for thinking that that
'we ain't seen nuthin' yet'.
The norm of expansion may not even have taken place in the lifetime of
historical records, ..perhaps not even in the timespan of the human
species.

So. GPS. Forget it. You don't need it to know when a city tumbles
down, or a tsunami washes over. No enlargement is implied in the
motions shown. But spin is. Yet the element of spin in global
deformation has been ignored in Plate Tectonics for the last half
century, ..and still is. And spin is very much a corroborative element
of Earth Expansion. Plate Tectonics needs to catch up and recognise
that spin is an integral control on global deformation.

It is making no attempt to do this. Even worse, geologists on
sci.geo.geology, who consider themselves representative of the
profession deny that any correlation exists, although put forsward no
reason whatsoever, and try to shoot the messengers, whoever they may
be.

That's the summary position.

And why is it like that? Because there is a tectonic shift about to
happen in the consensus position of the Earth Sciences, and we are
witnessing the denial that always happens whenever a change in the
resident Paradigm appears. Stick around for the firewords. Should be
fun.