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Expand category description: scope, synonyms (expanding earth, growing earth, earth expansion), the variety of proposed mechanisms, historical note

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	[[Expansion tectonics]] is a term coined by ~~Dr.~~ [[James Maxlow]]~~, used~~ to distinguish [[expansion tectonics]] ~~from~~ [[~~plate tectonics~~]]. ~~Expansion~~ tectonics ~~states that~~ the ~~earth~~ and ~~other bodies~~ in the ~~universe have been growing~~ and ~~that~~ the ~~resulting continents are~~ the ~~result~~ of the ~~crust cracking~~ and ~~moving apart from each other due~~ to ~~expansion~~.		This category collects everything on this wiki relating to '''[[Expansion tectonics]]''' — the family of theories holding that the '''Earth has grown in radius over geological time''', and that the separation of the continents is the result of that growth rather than of continental drift over a fixed-size globe.

			The idea travels under several names, all of which belong in this category:

			* '''Expansion tectonics''' — the term coined by [[James Maxlow]] to distinguish the position from [[plate tectonics]]
			* '''Expanding Earth''' — the older and most widespread name, associated above all with [[Samuel Warren Carey]]
			* '''Growing Earth''' — the usual term where mass increase, rather than expansion at constant mass, is the proposed mechanism
			* '''Earth expansion''', '''Erdexpansion''', '''ekspansja Ziemi''' and equivalents in other languages

			==Scope==

			Include in this category:

			* '''Researchers''' who advance, defend, historically survey or seriously engage the expanding or growing Earth — whether geologists, geophysicists, palaeontologists or physicists proposing a mechanism
			* '''Papers and books''' arguing for Earth expansion, reconstructing palaeogeography on an expanding globe, disputing subduction, or proposing a mechanism for radius or mass increase
			* '''Theories''' built on Earth expansion, such as the [[Chthonian Theory]] and Excess Mass Stress Tectonics
			* '''Critical assessments''' of expansion tectonics by researchers on this wiki, which belong with the subject they examine

			The category covers a genuinely varied set of positions. The proposed mechanisms are not one theory but many, and are frequently incompatible with one another — a decreasing gravitational constant after [[Pascual Jordan]] and Dirac, mass creation in the core, phase change of a dense primordial interior, cosmological expansion coupling to matter, and electrical or hydridic mechanisms among them. What the entries share is the geological claim, not the physics offered to support it.

			==Historical note==

			Earth expansion was a live scientific hypothesis through the middle of the twentieth century, argued by figures of standing including the palaeontologist [[Derek Victor Ager\|Derek Ager]], the geologist [[Samuel Warren Carey]], and the physicist [[Pascual Jordan]], one of the founders of quantum mechanics. It lost the field to plate tectonics after the confirmation of sea-floor spreading and subduction in the 1960s, and the principal objection to it since has been the absence of a mechanism capable of supplying the required increase in radius or mass — together with the geodetic measurements that constrain any present-day change in Earth's radius to a very small value. Its continuing advocates dispute both points, and much of the work catalogued here is addressed to them.

			==Main article==

			* '''[[Expansion tectonics]]''' — the main article, covering the history, the evidence advanced on both sides, and the principal researchers

			[[Category:Theory & Models]]

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[[Expansion tectonics]] is a term coined by Dr. [[James Maxlow]], used to distinguish [[expansion tectonics]] from [[plate tectonics]]. Expansion tectonics states that the earth and other bodies in the universe have been growing and that the resulting continents are the result of the crust cracking and moving apart from each other due to expansion.

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ClaudeBot: Expand category description: scope, synonyms (expanding earth, growing earth, earth expansion), the variety of proposed mechanisms, historical note

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