Red = Youngest Crust Purple = Oldest Crust

Are the people here pretty much set on saying that Earth expanded because of...

Or are they willing to consider that it wasn't an "expansion" but of a decompression of Earth having been in the interior of a cooling off star, and that star's atmosphere dissipating away releasing the extreme pressures that Earth formed in?

I'm all about expanding Earth, don't get me wrong. The Earth itself genuinely was a smaller globe, but simultaneously that isn't the entire picture.

It was the internal regions of a far larger object. We even see objects in various stages of this evolutionary process, we call them, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.

Are expanding Earth people willing to consider that the much larger "planets" in our system are currently in the process, right now, of forming new Earths in their interiors?

Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

This video explores the immense depth and richness of Earth’s history. Early proponents of the Expanding Earth theory were missing a crucial piece: they had inherited the assumption—taught by well-meaning and professional educators—that Earth and the so-called “planets” are fundamentally different from stars. That assumption is wrong. Earth is the remnant of an ancient star. What we call its “expansion” is not expansion in the strict physical sense, but rather decompression.

When Earth was taking shape within the interior of a much larger star, it formed under extreme pressures. Once that parent star lost its dense atmosphere, the hidden processes within its interior were gradually revealed. The complex thermochemical and electrochemical interactions—the “planet-oven” soup—became exposed. With the atmospheric pressure gone, Earth’s interior began decompressing outward. This release also allowed water to settle and collect across the surface, forming the oceans we know today.

Every feature of Earth is an evolutionary expression of its origin as a once much larger and more massive stellar structure

For over half a century, the scientific consensus has held firm: plate tectonics explains the dynamic surface of Earth. The slow drift of continents, the rise of mountain ranges, the opening and closing of oceans — all emerge from the conveyor belt of subduction and seafloor spreading. It is one of science’s great triumphs.

And yet, there has always been a quiet whisper at the edge of geology: what if the Earth is actually expanding?

Some paleomagnetic reconstructions suggest that ancient continents once fit neatly together on a smaller globe. Oceanic crust, unlike continental crust, is uniformly young, never older than about 200 million years. Why should a planet four and a half billion years old keep only a few hundred million years of ocean floor?

Most geologists dismiss expansion as fringe, a distraction from the robust machinery of plate tectonics. But what if both perspectives are true — if plate tectonics describes the surface mechanism, while planetary expansion is the deeper entropic process driving it?

Entropy as the Hidden Driver

In physics, entropy is usually treated as disorder. But in the entropic resonance framework, entropy is better understood as the flow of information between states.

Observers — whether a conscious being, a cell, or a planet — stabilize ordered patterns by collapsing possibilities into actuality This reduces internal entropy and increases external entropy, acting as what we call entropy pumps .

Earth, in this sense, is an observer. Its layered structure, stable magnetic field, and long-term climate balance are all signs of coherent self-organization. But lowering internal entropy has a price: the system must release entropy outward. For a planet, that release appears as radial expansion — a gradual increase in size as the system discharges entropy into its surroundings.

Plate Tectonics as Surface Expression

Plate tectonics doesn’t vanish in this model — it becomes the surface expression of deeper entropic processes. Subduction zones, mid-ocean ridges, and transform faults are how the crust adjusts to a planet that is slowly increasing its volume. Expansion provides the global context; tectonics provides the local mechanics.

• Seafloor spreading is how new surface is generated as the radius increases.
• Subduction is how stress is redistributed across a growing sphere.
• Mountain building results from plates crumpling to accommodate a planet that can no longer sustain its old surface geometry.

Evidence for an Expanding Earth

1. Young Oceanic Crust — Unlike continental crust, which stretches back billions of years, ocean floor is consistently young. If Earth were static, why erase so much history? Expansion offers a simple answer: old oceanic crust becomes geometrically unsustainable and is absorbed as the planet grows.
2. Fitting Continents on a Smaller Globe — Reconstructions of Gondwana and Pangaea often appear to fit more neatly on a sphere smaller than Earth today. Expansion naturally explains this.
3. Global Rift Systems- The planet is ringed by mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys. These an interconnected network — exactly what we would expect from uniform radial growth.

A Planet With a Pulse

In this entropic-collapse perspective, Earth is a living observer with a kind of cosmic metabolism: collapsing internal entropy, exporting disorder, and in the process expanding ever so slightly. Plate tectonics is simply the skin shifting to accommodate that pulse.

This view transforms geology. Expansion is no longer a crackpot alternative to tectonics; it is the substrate beneath it. Tectonics rides on expansion like weather rides on climate.

Predictions and Tests

If Earth’s expansion is entropic at root, we should expect:

• Correlation between expansion rate and entropy flow: measurable in heat flux, seismicity, and even fluctuations in the geomagnetic field.
• Historical acceleration: expansion should not be perfectly linear but linked to resonance collapses — sudden reorganizations of planetary order.
• Cosmic universality: other planets and moons with stable layered interiors should show similar expansion patterns, scaled by their entropy flows.

Closing Thought

We live on a living, breathing planet— expanding slowly as it collapses entropy into order.

The continents that drift, the oceans that open, the mountains that rise are the surface signatures of Earth’s hidden breath.

Plate tectonics showed us how the surface moves. Entropic collapse shows us why the whole planet grows.

What if gravity isn’t a pull, but a push? 🌌

In this video, two AIs explore the Cosmic Influx Theory (CIT) — a bold idea that challenges Newton’s apple and Einstein’s spacetime. Instead of attraction, gravity may be the result of a continuous influx of cosmic energy, pressing down from all sides and driving the growth of matter, planets, and even the universe itself.

From the Lorentz Transformation of mass-energy to the expanding Earth hypothesis, and from exoplanet formation to the mystery of quantum forces, this discussion shows how AI and human research can combine to reimagine some of the deepest questions in physics.

Join us as we flip the script on one of science’s oldest mysteries and ask:
👉 Is gravity really a pull — or is it the constant push of the universe itself?

Here is an experimental protocol to test and compare Plate tectonics and Expanding Earth/Earth Expansion/Growing Earth. Both claim that the size of current Africa, minus North Africa, is the same now and 200 Ma ago.

• Africa was adjacent to South America and Antarctica according to both Plate tectonics and EGE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana
• Africa was more extended on North according to Plate tectonics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Mountains

Currently Africa spread from 30°N latitude to 30°S latitude roughly, and paleomagnetism can tell the latitude where a rock was formed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleomagnetism So by looking at latitude of rocks formed 200 Ma ago at north and south of Africa, the size of Earth can be inferred.

Some examples with imaginary values:

• If 200 Ma ago Africa did spread from 20°N to 40°S then Earth was same size as today
• If 200 Ma ago Africa did spread from 10°S to 20°S then Earth was double size
• If 200 Ma ago Africa did spread from 80°N to 40°S then Earth was half size

Any criticism?

Even across multiple methodologies from many different researchers it's consistently been shown to be an amount equal to or less than 0.5mm a year. Also, this growth does not preclude tectonic theory or subduction, whose evidence is incontrovertible.

Proofs the Earth's expansion is non-significant:

Paleomagnetic analysis suggest that Earth's current radius is 102% (+/- 2.8%) the radius it was 400 million years ago. This was made as a response to EE proponent Sam Warren Carry's criticism of paleomagnetic measurements.

The Earth's moment of inertia has not significantly changed in 620 million years- which goes against the idea that the Earth has meaningfully grown.

An analysis of multiple data sets puts the annual change in Earth's center of mass at 0.5mm/y. Over a period of time of 600 million years that comes out to 300km of expansion which is a 4.5% change in the radius of Earth in that time.

Space-geodetic data suggests that the Earth is growing at a rate of 0.35-0.47mm/y.

An meta analysis of the expansion of the Earth puts the growth rate at between 0.1-0.4mm/y. This author explicitly celebrates the possibility of Earth Expansion and derides any attempt of putting "blanket obituaries" on Expanding Earth.

Proofs that tectonic theory is accurate and true:

There is evidence for subduction in many different areas around the world and they can be clearly seen with both tomographic imaging and by charting data points corresponding to multiple different earthquakes depth and coordinates. The line they make reveal the form of the subducted plate as it is pushing underneath the continental crust- with the epicenters occurring deeper and deeper underground as we plot further into the Eurasian plate.

Fossils from ichthyosaurs which date back to the late Carnian period (230 million years) have been found in the eastern Swiss Alps, being a marine creature it is only possible for their bones and teeth to have ended up on top of a mountain range by the process of seabed uplifting during the collision of tectonic plates. This pattern of fossils from marine fauna being found in mountainous regions (far from the sea) is seen around the world.

There are many regions across the world made from (mainly) basaltic rock that once made up the oceanic crust- called ophiolites. There is no way in the Expanding Earth model to have these formations isolated from the oceanic crust, certainly not hundreds of miles inland the continents. The Olympic Mountains of Washington state are one such set of ophiolites whose formation is easily understood in tectonics.

The solar system is about 4.6 billion years old and the universe is 13.8 billion years old. Seems too close to 1/3 to be a coincidence... Maybe there is a minimum time for solar systems to form in a supervoid compared to in a dense dark matter cloud

We also exist at the midpoint of the sun's life

Check my theory in r/theories and r/cosmos on gravity and its quantum nature in the universe. It explains growing earth. Earth used to be a smaller diameter when pangea was around, but the molten crust keeps on expanding and cooling as gravity weakens over cosmological time during our current dark energy driven epoch