The Lilliput Effect: Gravity and Mass Extinction
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | The Lilliput Effect: Gravity and Mass Extinction |
| Author(s) | Stephen W Hurrell |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2019-01-30 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | palaeogravity, expansion tectonics, mass extinction |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"The Lilliput Effect: Gravity and Mass Extinction" is an article by Stephen W Hurrell published on 30 January 2019 on Beyond Mainstream.
Hurrell reports that those who have studied ancient gravity generally agree it was substantially lower in the geological past — by his estimate about half its present value 200 million years ago, rising since. The open question among them has been whether that increase was continuous or intermittent, and he examines a paper by the German-Romanian geologist Carl Strutinski addressing it through the Lilliput Effect, the reduction in body size observed after mass extinctions.