Scientiest who suggested theory of seafloor soreading?
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Like a lot of things in science, it is hard to say exactly who first came up with this idea. \n\nHowever, probably the best contender is Professor Harry Hess of Princeton University. Hess noticed that the sediment near the mid-ocean ridges was much thinner, as though the sea floor there was newer than it was farther from the ridges. \n\nHowever, there are many others who played a part in solving this puzzle. Alfred Wegner, a German meterologist, is often credited with first proposing the theory of plate tectonics. Wegner noticed that the coastlines of South America and Africa fit together like pieces of a puzzle, but Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Antonio Snider-Pellegrini and others had noticed this before. Vine and Mathews observed the magnetic stripes on the sea floor, confirming Hess' theory.
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http://abc.net.au/science/surfingscientist/\n  very cool!
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I am not going to read such an absurd theory. But come on, has he done any research to see if such a huge body of water in that area of the world can freeze over?? Has he even read the story?? Most bible historians believe that it was the Sea of Galilee where this happened which is a HUGE body of water! The story also states that a huge storm occured during this , so wouldnt the hugh waves during the storm,pretty much break up all the frozen water?? Just another antheist trying to gain some ground for Satan!
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Plate tectonics is deeply connected with physics, and was discovered by geophysicists using techniques from physics.\n\nFor example:\n\n1. Fluid mechanics\n2. continuum mechanics\n3. electromagnetism\n4. newton's laws\n\nPlate tectonics was discovered by looking at stripes of magnetization on the sea floor. These are from the earth's field, which is caused by a dynamo, which is very complicated physics, involving electromagnetism and fluid mechanics. The plates move because of entrainment by moving fluids beneath. There is a lot of thermodynamics involved in the heat transfer and the cooling of the plates after they emerge from a midcean ridge; they contract as they cool. There is continuum mechanics involved in the deformation of the plates as they collide or get subducted. Islands on the plate surface can cause the plates to flex, and this is studied by continuum mechanics. One could make a very extensive list, that would probably include quantum mechanics, and even nuclear physics (which creates the heat that drives the plates), and only exclude quantum effects.
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the\nocean would be if that didn't happen. -- Steven Wright
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There is rumored evidence of finding what could be a road underwater by Cuban and Russian archaeologists, but they've not been verified.  There's "myths" about Atlantis, or, at least, some kind of technologically advanced civilizations out of many older cultures.  I think the most pressing evidence for an Atlantean-type culture comes from the discovery of purported ruins underwater off the coast of some Japanese island.  There's a good documentary on one of the science/history channels about it.  And you know how those work.  They'll show them again and again.  So you'll get a chance to see it if you keep an eye out for it.
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I never knew about this but heres a quote from a website.  This is pretty cool stuff!  Also, he reported that he was "silenced" by thugs  who beat him up and never spoke of his discoveries again after that, sad world.\nQuote:\n\n"Scientists cannot explain how Leedskalnin built coral castle. It was featured on IN Search of with Leonard Nimoy. He moved coral stones weighing as much as 28 tons with equipment designed to only lift 10 tons, and only lift it, not move it. People spying on him with binoculars signed sworn affidavits that they saw coral stones weighing tons, floating in the air like helium balloons.\n\nMy best guess is: He put a strong negative electric charge on them, (at night to avoid the photo electric effect) and the Earth's magnetic field pushed up on them and they floated.\n\nAccording to him, a strong negative charge is really filling it with south magnetic pole units and the whole stone becomes a south magnetic monopole.\n\nI experimented and made a cement brick weighing 15 pounds, to weigh 13 pounds. Did it twice and never tried it again."\n\nIn response to the answer below..  I wasn't trying to declare this as fact I was quoting someone else.  And My enthusiasm was for the trivia not for a new scientific discovery.  Obviously, if it were true then it would be replicated as all science works.  Go easy on me :)  Interesting to note that the user below has been suspended
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Theory of yachting?\nI don't think there is a theory, it's fact, people do it.\nMaybe you are looking for techniques?
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Plate tectonics (from the Greek word for "one who constructs and destroys", τεκτων, tektōn) is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift and is currently the theory accepted by the vast majority of scientists working in this area. In the theory of plate tectonics the outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two layers: the lithosphere comprising the crust and the solidified uppermost part of the mantle. Below the lithosphere lies the asthenosphere which comprises the inner viscous part of the mantle. The mantle behaves like a superheated and extremely viscous liquid.
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outside of the "reptilian" notion his theories have merit, both logical and historical. for more fun theories check out the linx below:
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Magnetic striping on the sea floor was used as an early proof of plate tectonics, as it showed the sea floor was spreading away from a central axis.\n\nThe following is taken from http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/part9.html\n\nIn the late 1950's, scientists mapped the present-day magnetic field generated by rocks on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The volcanic rocks which make up the sea floor have magnetization because, as they cool, magnetic minerals within the rock align to the Earth's magnetic field. The intensity of the magnetic field they measured was very different from the intensity they had calculated. Thus, the scientists detected magnetic anomalies, or differences in the magnetic field from place to place. They found positive and negative magnetic anomalies. Positive magnetic anomalies are places where the magnetic field is stronger than expected. Positive magnetic anomalies are induced when the rock cools and solidifies with the Earth's north magnetic pole in the northern geographic hemisphere. The Earth's magnetic field is enhanced by the magnetic field of the rock. Negative magnetic anomalies are magnetic anomalies that are weaker than expected. Negative magnetic anomalies are induced when the rock cools and solidifies with the Earth's north magnetic pole in the southern geographic hemisphere. The resultant magnetic field is less than expected because the Earth's magnetic field is reduced by the magnetic field of the rock.\n\n     When mapped, the anomalies produce a zebra-striped pattern of parallel positive and negative bands. The pattern was centered along, and symmetrical to, the mid-ocean ridge.\n\n    A hypothesis was presented in 1963 by Fred Vine and Drummond Matthews to explain this pattern. They proposed that lava erupted at different times along the rift at the crest of the mid-ocean ridges preserved different magnetic anomalies.\n\nVine and Matthews proposed that lava erupted on the sea floor on both sides of the rift, solidified, and moved away before more lava was erupted. If the Earth's magnetic field had reversed (changed from one geographic pole to the other) between the two eruptions, the lava flows would preserve a set of parallel bands with different magnetic properties. The ability of Vine and Matthews' hypothesis to explain the observed pattern of ocean floor magnetic anomalies provided strong support for sea floor spreading.
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Underwater earthquakes cause Tsunamis. Not god you braindead christian nitwit!
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Wegener's main opponent was an astronomer and geophysicist named Harold Jeffreys. Sir Jeffreys argued correctly that there was no way for a continent to plow through the ocean floor without breaking it and leaving some evidence of that process behind. Jeffreys continued his opposition to plate tectonics as well, maintaining skepticism about the possibility of convection currents. He passed away in 1989.\n\nAnother reason that Wegener was opposed is that he was not a geologist, but was a meteorologist. He was outside of the bounds of his field and at that time is was not customary or accepted to step into other scientific realms. \n\nAt the time there was a school of thought that believed the earth was cooling and contracting, and that oceanic basins were simply sunken continents. This made it easy to discount Wegener's fossil evidence because the animals could have simply crossed over land at one time, according to this idea. The cooling and contracting seemed to account for mountain ranges as well, although one of the flaws of this was that it was already known that mountains varied considerably in age.  \n\nIn 1908 another scientist Frank Taylor presented a paper to the Geological Society of America that suggested that continents were moving away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and suggested the ridge was stationary. His ideas were generally ignored or opposed, and only 18 months later Wegener proposed a very similar hypothesis.  \n\n\nMax Planck, (who was not involved in the debate over continental drift as far as I know) said this about the way scientific paradigms change:\n\n"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents [...] What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarised with the idea from the beginning."
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Eötvös is remembered today for his experimental work on gravity, in particular his study of the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass (the so-called weak equivalence principle) and his study of the gravitational gradient on the Earth's surface.\n\n\nCheck out link below for more information.
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Aha!\n\nPerhaps it would be best to clue you into a direct exploration currently in progress:\n\nIn short, this is directly copied from the BBC :)  The exploration continues, and more evidance is being found, so good reading:\n\nAmerican researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus. \nThe team spent six days scanning the Mediterranean sea bed between Cyprus and Syria using sonar technology. \n\nThey believe they found evidence of massive, manmade structures beneath the ocean floor, including two straight, 2-km (1.25 mile) long walls on a hill. \n\nThey say their discoveries match accounts of the city written by Plato. \n\n\n'Greatest coincidence' \n\nTeam leader Robert Sarmast said the walls appear to be sited on a flat-topped hill where the temples of Atlantis once stood. \n\n \nMyth or reality? It is said to be a place of beauty and wealth \nHe intends to use the sonar data to make a three-dimensional computer image of the site, 1.5km below sea level, before returning for further research. \n\n\n"The hill, as a whole, basically looks like a walled, hillside territory and this hillside territory matches Plato's description of the Acropolis hill with perfect precision," he said. \n\n"Even the dimensions are exactly perfect, so if all these things are coincidental, I mean, we have the world's greatest coincidence going on." \n\nHowever, Mr Sarmast and his team are not alone in believing they have found the lost city of Atlantis. \n\n \nSonar technology was used to survey the sea bed off Cyprus \nOther researchers have placed it off the coast of Spain, Cuba and the south west of England, as well as under the South China Sea. \n\nThe story of Atlantis, a fabled utopia destroyed in ancient times, has captured the imagination of scholars ever since it was first described by the philosopher Plato. \n\nWriting more than 2,000 years ago, he depicted a land of fabulous wealth, advanced civilisation and natural beauty.
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My friends and I have the same debate, and we call it the "Blubber Theory".  It is not scientific, but assume that since the body lose heat from being in the water for so long, it start to adapt to its environment by creating "blubber" to prevent excessive heat loss.  N.B. This is not scientific, but the blubber is higher in swimmers who spend more time in the water and who dont alternate with another sport/activity.
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No scientist propounds a creation theoryt of\nevolution.  The creation theories, of which there are\nmany came from religions long befoe science\ndeveloped as a separate activity from philosophy\nand religion. \n\nIgnore the long-winded answer from smiling4ever2\nit is without merit.  Note that he says that evolution\n takes place by chance.  No scientist ever claimed\nthat evolution takes place by chance.  Natural\nselection is an ANTIchance mechanism.  The\nproduction of variation by mutation and recombination is often referred to as random, but it\nis clearly not completely dependent on random \nchance.  What is meant is that new variations are\nnot directed toward solutions of whatever problem\nthe population is facing.  If the environment is\ndrying up and new adaptations for water conservation are needed, the new variations that\nappear are just as likely to be detrimental to saving \nwater as to be beneficial for it, or to have nothing\nat all to do with water balance.  Those few that\ndo fit the organism to a drier climate will be favored\nby natural selection and the others will not.