Re: A big whack that made the moon may have also created continents that move

On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:47:23 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>"a425couple"  wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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>A big whack that made the moon may have also created continents that move
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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener
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>In 1912 he presented his theory that continents drift around and were once 
>assembled. After his death the Nazis picked up on and promoted it, which 
>tainted the concept so much that it was buried, and only resurrected when a 
>grad student independently noticed and popularized the proposal and thus 
>freed it from its political stigma.
>

A big issue was also that he had absolutely no mechanism for how they
could have moved

Then somebody showed that crystals showed changing magnetic fields
that would happen if the continents had moved as well as sea floor
observations backing it up