Re: [allplanets-hollow] Shambhala accessDick,
Yes, he does this well, but it is more a matte of establishing a positive HE model than dumping the solid planetmodel.
DD
Pratt's first chapter "The Solid Earth Hypothosis" thoroughly covers most of the beliefs embraced today by orthodox scientists. And (as he did so well in his earlier excellent piece on "Gravity"), Pratt "kindly" but effectively dumps many of their beliefs, "tectonic plates," among them. That first chapter is a science primer EVERYONE (on list or off) should read. Complete absence of any comments by others so far, surprises me. Apparently other list members have not yet read Pratt's online book! But I'm assuming YOU, Dean, have by now also read all 4 chapters.
Re: [allplanets-hollow] Shambhala accessPeople,
Let us put up appropriate titles on our posts.
DD
Re: [allplanets-hollow] Shambhala access
If anyone has not saved the Pratt URL(s) you gave us, here they are again...
Mysteries of the Inner Earth by David Pratt
May 2001 (I listed the individual URLs for each chapter)...
Part 1: The Solid Earth Hypothesis
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner1.htm
List Members-
Here is something that I picked up from David pratt's section # 1:
" The more we learn about the crust and uppermost mantle, the more the models presented in geological textbooks are exposed as simplistic and unrealistic. The outermost layers of the earth have a highly complex, irregular, inhomogeneous structure; they are divided by faults into a mosaic of separate, jostling blocks of different shapes and sizes, generally a few hundred kilometres across, and of varying internal structure and strength. This fact, in conjunction with the existence of deep continental roots and the absence of a global asthenosphere, means that the notion of huge rigid plates moving thousands of kilometres across the earth is simply untenable. Continents are about as mobile as a brick in a wall! "
What he is sayingstrongly supports the idea ofVertical plate movement, up and down, instead of continental drift. I am very open to this idea, personally.
I am thinking that it would actually be good for us to read his Part One. It outlines the solid Earth model, the hollow Earth model, and highlights some differences.
DD
Members,
The following is from Pratt's Part One, and is consistent with Cater's idea
that soft particles release harder ones, which have been captured within,
and which give off heat, as they go through the crust of the Earth,
experiencing friction of various kinds.
Dean
David Pratt:
It is generally assumed that temperature increases with depth, reaching
1000°C at a depth of about 80 km, 4800°C at the core-mantle boundary, and
6900°C at the earth's centre. It is certainly true that mine shafts and oil
drilling operations have indicated significant increases of temperature with
depth. Indeed, superdeep drilling has shown that temperature increases with
depth far more rapidly than predicted. In the Kola borehole, the temperature
at 10-km depth was 180°C rather than the expected 100°C. Measurements
revealed significant vertical variations in temperature gradient and
heat-flux density along the borehole. Overall, the rate of temperature
increase rose from 11° to 24°/km down to a depth of nearly 7 km, and then
started to decline.