From:"Matrixx Entertainment" To: Subject:Continental Drift Date:Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:55:40 -0500 Very interesting theory. . . you are probably correct about the core rotating faster hence it dragging the continents on the surface along too. James Jaeger The following is taken from Mr. Jaeger's site http://www.mecfilms.com/teardrop.htm which does NOT mean I endorse his views! But this is pretty concise: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Planets revolving around a star cause it to wobble about the center of gravity. If two bodies are same mass, center of gravity is in middle. If more massive body is 2X the mass of smaller body, the center of gravity is 2X closer to the center of the larger mass. Earth is 81 times as massive as Moon. Earth and Moon rotate about the Earth-Moon center of gravity - the Moon does not rotate about the Earth. The center of gravity of the Earth-Moon system is 2,950 mi from Earth's center or 1000 miles under the Earth's surface. Center of Earth also moves in small circle about the center of gravity of the Earth-Moon System once every 27-1/3 days. This causes the Earth to wave in its path around the Sun wave period being 27-1/3 days long. If Moon weren't there Earth would not wave (wobble) and instead would move around the Sun in smooth path. Jupiter causes the Sun to wobble as the Moon causes the Earth to wobble. Sun is 1,050 times as massive as Jupiter hence the center of gravity of Sun-Jupiter System is 1,050 times closer to center of Sun than the center of Jupiter. The center of gravity of the Sun-Jupiter system is a) 460,000 miles from center of the Sun, or, b) 28,000 miles outside the Sun's surface. The Center of Sun circles the Sun-Jupiter center of gravity once every 12 years hence the sun, in its otherwise smooth progress about the Galactic Nucleus, wobbles slightly to and fro from its path. Sun's wobble is complex pattern caused from the combined effect of all the Sun's Planets. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ For even more Information, look up "Precession" and "Nutation" or try to translate: http://mitglied.lycos.de/erleuchtet/mein/nutation.txt ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ For the kids reading my site: Imagine a raw, peeled egg with the skin just below the shell still on it spinning in a bucket of water. Like any other blob of liquid revolving in space, the earth itself is not statically round, but wobbles, oscillates, quavers and distorts, albeit for us slowly. In the Northern Hemisphere (and the arctic), the winter is about 5 days shorter than the summer. In the Southern Hemisphere (and the antarctic), the winter is about 5 days longer than the summer. The seasons are dissimilarly long. This was used by Johannes Kepler in the 17th century as proof of the Copernican Idea that the earth revolves around the sun. (Science was able to measure with great precision even then!) The planetary orbits represent approximate ellipses with the sun sitting in one of their focal points. The earth passes this near focus every beginning of January - at a distance of approximately 147 million km. The gravitational pull of the sun on the earth is the strongest in this time. Because of this, the planet is a little faster than in beginning of July, when it passes the other focal point furthest from the sun, this time at a distance of approximately 152 million km. That is a difference of about 2-3%. Because the earth is furthest from the sun in hot July (with the arctic circle pointing towards the sun), this causes the summer to be about 5 days longer in the North. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Mars, Venus, Earth & Moon The Earth has a comparatively big moon. It is the swing of the Earth around the center of gravity of the Earth- Moon system 1000 miles under the Earth's surface that causes the tidal ebb & flow of the oceans (usually with 2 tides daily; the tidal flow is, strangely enough, least in equatorial regions). The wobbly differences in the Moon's appearance, giving to eclipses from time to time, but not always, is due to the fact that the Earth revolves around itself at an angle of 23.5 degrees to the Sun, while the Moon revolves around the Earth at an angle of 5 degrees. Part of the Earth's oceans are being drawn off the surface of the planet towards the Moon, and another part of them are being pushed off the Earth's surface on the far side by the centrifugal forces caused by the Moon not revolving around the Earth's center of gravity (there would only be one single daily tide in that case), but by Earth and Moon hurtling through space strung together like a pair of South American bolas with one ball being smaller than the other but big enough to make a difference. Day by day, the Earth revolves away under these two mounds of water, which act as friction brakes. This is slowing down the Earth, which used to have a 25 hour day (which, incidentally, is the original biorhythm day, at least in humans following the Moon around; but this may have other reasons: since the Moon takes 28 days or 28 times 24 hours to revolve around the Earth, it takes the same spot on the Earth to face the Moon again one day and 1/28th day or 24 and 24/28th hours or just about 25 hours. This, very strangely, and not the daily 24 hour cycle of the sun, makes up the inner clock of humans; this inner clock follows the Moon; it therefore lags behind and has to be synchronised anew with the sun every day (after being locked up in closed confinement without sunlight for a while, a minute will still feel like a minute; but 25 hours will feel like 24 hours, making it 62.5 minutes to the hour). It may be that this slowing down is not only due to the ebb and flow if the oceans, but due to the Moon's gravitational pull on the Earth itself, the leverage being greatest in its crust, which may break up in the process, having even to daily flow around the aforementioned center of gravity of the Earth-Moon system 1000 miles under the Earth's surface; this in turn allowing, among other things, for life itself, by recycling carbon dioxide through the subduction of carbon deposits on the ocean floors through volcanoes in the process of plate tectonics. Mars and Venus, which have no big moons, both have no plate tectonics, and both are dead planets. If all of this is true, and is the Earth's core does indeed revolve faster than the crust, as I do not tire to propose, it would be nice to include the Earth's Moon into this system, the Moon then being dragged along even slower as the far arm of the spiral of dirt and dust that once formed the Earth-Moon system itself, condensing in the Earth's core. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Jupiter Jupiter is actually not really a gas giant or gas planet, but, like Saturn, Uranus und Neptun, something of a liquid one. It is suspected to have a core of iron and stone in the center, approximately the size of the earth, but more than ten times its mass, and a border temperature of 30.000 degrees. On this core lie, at a pressure of about three million earth atmospheres, first about 40.000 km of solid and then 30.000 km of liquid hydrogen. Only the last 1.000 km on the outside seemed to be gaseous; with that, the actual atmosphere of Jupiter is about 100 times higher than the atmosphere of the earth. It contains a number of vortex bands and the famous red spot, a whirlwind of 500 km/h now existing for some centuries at least. This vortex is almost three times as large as planet earth, and therefore almost three times as large as the planet's presumed core itself. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ The shape of the earth Measurements of extreme precision show the earth is not a perfect sphere. The centrifugal force, produced by its own rotation, drives the mass apart at the equator and presses the poles together; therefore the radius between the earth's center and the equator is larger than at the poles by about 15 km. Such measurements have also shown that the earth is very slightly bagged out at the North Pole and pulled in at the South Pole, giving it a very slight pear-shaped appearance. This "pearing" is so slight it can only be calculated from satellite trajectory data. The tides forces of the moon finally cause the earth to bulge out to the moon; this too isn't visible, but these tidal forces are noticeable by the phenomenon of low and high tide. JHR 2004 / 2006