Neal Adams is a well known comic book and commercial artist.
Neal Adams (born June 15, 1941) is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates; and as a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Neal Adams is also well know for promoting the Growing Earth concept.
Adams believes the Earth is growing through a process called pair production.
Adams holds the work of Australian geologist Samuel Warren Carey in high esteem, but considers the term “Expanding Earth” a misnomer.
While Carey did advocate an expanding Earth in the mid-20th century, his model was rejected following the development of the theory of plate tectonics.
Adams advocates his ideas in a DVD documentary he wrote and produced, clips of which are available on his YouTube channel.
Neal Adams utilises his graphical skills to great effect to animate the Growing Earth.
See: http://nealadams.com/science-videos/
See: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/crustalimages.html
Neal Adams Science project – A video clip translated from German Television.
MalagaBay 
For some reason this has appeal. Anyway, how could it happen? An encounter with dark matter?
the basic refutations geologists give ring true to me. there’s trenches at ‘convergent plate boundaries’, exactly as if one plate is going under another
and, I am sure, many other reasons.
geologists do use a red herring – that the Earth is not expanding now. And they have anomalies, a dinosaur problem. a Gondwanaland problem, a moon problem, a planet formation problem, and so on
A clue might lie in star formation from plasma Z-pinches compressing matter and after the compressing force has waned, we have now a cosmic body that is seriously out of equilibrium with its surrounds due to the Z-pinch being reduced for whatever reasons, A small ball of compressed matter that now slowly starts to expand as high PT mineral phases start to equilibrate to lower PT phases. Since no matter is being created, the only thing for this photo-planet is to increase in volume along Bowen’s Reaction series, for those remembering geology 101, and so on. But also remember the protoplanet also has not jettisoned its Z-pinch current either, since Z-pinches are part and parcel of rotating field aligned electric plasma currents.
The Earth isn’t forcefully being made to expand, it’s simply reverting to a previous state of matter that is no longer being compressed by plasma z-pinches. But what route the proto-planet takes in evolving is unknown.
But Carey’s invocation of mass creation in the core is simply creationism and thus a no-no. A more modern explanation invokes solar proton accumulation causing mass increase but that is equally problematical. Much easier and simpler to have iron core planets as the end product of stellar evolution in terms of the plasma universe.
The trenches are the only tenet of plate tectonics that survives modern seismology. They are real. However, there are many areas of plate growth that are not matched by corresponding trenches. For instance:
There is also a problem with Africa, but the meridional growth can conceivably be absorbed by the Pacific trenches. There are no current latitudinal trenches to absorb the growth of the Antarctic and Arctic ridges. Unless you want to count the continuing growth of the Himilaya/Alpine system. The Americas have converged a bit but no serious orogeny there…
Anyway, the satellites should be able to tell us whether the earth is expanding. They probably just haven’t bothered.
Just as GPS clearly establishes movement of continents in spite of Einstein’s reasonable objections, it is likely the rocky earth’s dynamo is limited to fission. It will not grow like a main sequence star.
Not to say it won’t grow at all. The imponderable aspect of ocean ridge spreading is that it is very shallow and definitely not supported by mantle convection…
There are lots of other theories like:
Exothermic Terrestrial Degassing of Hydrogen and Helium
I am personally inclined to the de-gassing theories because they can explain the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.
Either way: There are more posts to come over the holiday period [while I do some other research] that present the Expanding visuals produced by Neal Adams.
It’s the geological equivalent of the Ink Blot Test.
You can either observe:
1) A piece of paper that has been folded over to make an ink blot pattern
or
2) Imagine lots of difficult things like: a Scary Face, an Animals Pelt, a Face Mask or whatever suits your purpose…
Or in this case you can observe:
1) Earth Expansion
or
2) Imagine lots of processes like: Plates Tectonics, Subduction & Trenches, Core Convection…
If you observe Earth Expansion then it is easy to visualise the mechanics of Trenches.
If you observe Earth Expansion then it is easy to visualise the mechanics of Dome Collapses.
There is more to come from Neal Adams so you might like to keep an open mind for the moment.
+1
Louis and Malaga, what do you think of this guys assertions and the papers he bases them upon?? Basically he claims the evidence for Plate tectonics is more missing than present.
http://www.davidpratt.info/bauer.htm
As gymnosperm notes: trenches are real.
The rest of Plate Tectonics is imaginary Ink Spot processes.
Like all Settled Science it eventually paints itself into a corner and decides to keep the faith by resorting to increasing levels of half-baked improbability.
See: https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/soft-centred-science/
It seems to depend upon whether you have a vested interest in keeping the Ink Spot Illusions alive… if you don’t then Settled Science rapidly descends into comic farce [a la The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy], mathematical myths [aka Newtonesque Alchemy] and computer games [aka computer models].
All these different ideas trying to explain what we observe is exactly what science is all about. I have watched Neal Adams explain pair production several times and he may be on to something, even if he hasn’t quiet got the mechanism correct. I’m not sure there is any such thing as pure matter or pure energy existing in isolation without the other, such that energy could turn into matter and vice versa, but its not beyond the realms of possibility that seemingly massless particles can change in the presence of certain types of energy into particle of mass and form the lighter element without nuclear fusion. This could be happen in the earth now and in turn set off all the other reactions that we see that could contribute to the earth growth. Just an idea
Prime Matter Demo
https://web.archive.org/web/20110723052552/http:/continuitystudios.net/images/PrimeMatterDemo.mov
But so does the stellar model – outgassing etc is an outcome of reduced compressional forces, but its the origin of the driving force causing expansion that is the difficulty but which I won’t go into at present since it’s that time of the year and my brain is parked in a festive holding pattern.
Pratt is on the money as Tim notes below. I’ve other perspectives to present but not at the immediate moment since it’s that time of the year and I am expecting family invasion etc., so the brain is shunted into a holding yard.
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Something to tease the brain.
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Could the earth actually be expanding instead of growing, and that because the core is increasingly crystalizing? Could the earth be a giant geode?
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The Earth, aka Adam, DM, was expelled from DN, Eden, Aten, Sol, etc.
A massive pinch had been imposed and was mostly released….. The first part that left the pinch exploded and thus Eve was born from the side of Adam.
I can’t accept an outpouring of hydrogen from an accreting Earth, if it’s being lost now how much more likely that it would dissipate through diffusion when the planet was, apparently, dust. If however the planets and moons formed as cores or fractions of cores inside stars then perhaps the precipitating Iron and Nickel, over time, became saturated with H+ ions and these protons moved into heavy metals as these formed over time due to the radiation bombardment from the stars reactive surface. The metals would have a lower melt point and over time would migrate out of the Iron/Nickel lattice through schisms of their own creation and then self organise into ore bodies according to density and charge due to the stars rotation. Thus the densest metals, containing almost their own weight in protons holding fast nearer the equatorial zone and lighter metals sodium, magnesium, calcium and aluminium forced towards the poles.
If a small star aproached a large one perhaps the core would emerge almost intact and rapidly cool as it accelerated into orbit to become a planet of the larger star.
Then ages could pass whilst only a modest amount of H+ escaped until a kinetic or electrical event took place which ‘boiled’ the metals surrounding the core forcing the metals into micro cracks caused by flexing and here the h+ escapes and begins to form a whole series of less dense solvents and molten rocks which begin to rise, reacting as they go building into low density fluid domains with pressure gradients that allow a continuous passage of H+ from below.
Where these eventually breach the surface, emerging beneath old crust they form new crust and release their entrained ore bodies as liquids or solutes into the cracks caused by the uplifting of the old crust. That is the ‘subduction’ zones and trenches are really where new oceanic crust emerges.
IF the H+/protons saturate the core of the captured smaller suns>gas giants then a large fraction of the escaping shattered cores would be rich in them until a thermal/electrical or kinetic event precipitated their release, this would identify them as comets.
Low melt point metals melting and escaping from the confines of the outer core, and then boiling off their H+ ‘passengers’ would exlain the large low shear velocity provinces and the Ultra low velocity zones as being the lower density liquid[?] results of the hydrogen reacting with the local mineral bodies. How long before shock waves reached the surface? would they be near symetrical? or at least diametrically opposite? or antipodal nodes on a once symetrical grid indicating where orthogonal waves peaked as they reached the surface?The weakest points would open and act as pressure release and the rising material would follow this path of least resistance, suggesting a very asymetrical expansion.
A similar process may happen to other ‘escaped’ cores but, if indeed it happens this way at all, may not.
Thinking about this I have to wonder what may have affected the evolution of the core once released and my best guess was that high energy radiation penetrating on the polar axis is captured near the planets bloch wall and here as the energy ‘freezes’ electricity which is the latent energy of the phase transition to ‘matter’ is released.
Assuming the [my] above is not nonsense then to be consistent the non charged debris within the suns ‘sphere’ probably represents the non core material of a body that wasn’t cooled by acceleration into an orbital slot, exploded and was not accelerated by this too far above/below the suns orbital plane. As such it should have a similar elemental make up to the Earths mantle.
Since oxygen is a significant fraction of the mantle then IF H+ rises from the core then H2O must form a similar fraction of of the ULV and LLVD blobs so
“Harsh Gupta, Sukanta Roy, in Geothermal Energy, 2007Sodium chloride water
Sodium chloride water is the most common type of fluid found at depth in large water-dominated geothermal systems. It contains 1000–10,000 mg kg–1 of chlorine and mainly carbon dioxide gas. It has a pH close to neutral at depth. When this type of water approaches the surface, it loses steam and carbon dioxide and consequently becomes slightly alkaline. It is believed that these waters are formed from the absorption of magmatic volatiles such as HCl, CO2, SO2 and H2S into deeply circulating meteoric water. The ratio of chloride to sulfate is high. Typical examples of geothermal systems containing this type of water are Wairakei (New Zealand), Geysir (Iceland) and Ahuachapan (El Salvador).”
not meteoric water but similar. Rising, the blobs would distort the balance of the Earths gravity distribution so
a certain amount of disturbance may ensue.
This is an interesting paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00219-x with some graphics and animations about LLVP’s/LLSVP’s and ULVZ’s . It’s obviously not examining my viewpoint but so far as I can tell nothing it says falsifies it either and there are one or two ‘confirmations’ . I suspect an H+ rich metallic breakout from the core, these are one manifestation of the ‘ultra low velocity zones’ and are apparently very dense and probably liquid[ish] . There are also similar stretched zones at the top of the large low shear velocity provinces, since I expect the H+ to continue to break out of it’s metallic confinement then rising to the top of these zones is expected, and probably brings the metal in it’s wake as a more fluid material passing through any cracks/weaknesses caused by heat of exothermic reactions or chemical solvents. There does seem to be some connection to ‘subduction zones’ where they suggest lightweight material sinks through denser material for millenia even approaching the outer core, I’m not sure where they think the ore bodies above these zones originate. I’m definitely thinking they rose from at minimum the deep mantle and that both the chemical and residual heat from the depths caused the mountains such as the Andes to soften and fall back into themselves as they were uplifted by the rising plumes of generally lightweight material being oozed out.