Alexandra Bruce – Before there was a Flat Earth, there was an Expanding Earth – as far as YouTube is concerned.
At first blush, the Expanding Earth Hypothesis or “Expando-Earth,” as Clif High calls it, does seem pretty wacky but it can be argued to make more sense than Plate Tectonics which, let’s face it is pretty damned crazy, with its wild and woolly subduction zones.
Back in 2009, when I first saw an animation of the expanding Earth on YouTube, my reaction was, “Yes, the continents do all fit together – but whoever came up with this idea is smoking that wacky tabacky.” That person who first published about it in 1975 was Tasmanian geologist Samuel Carey, who was well-respected even if his hypothesis was not.