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Richard W. Guy
Richard W. Guy
Residence	Bronx, NY, United States
Nationality	English / USA
Known for	Expanding Earth; Receding Seas and Ancient Civilizations
	Scientific career
Fields	Civil Engineer

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Richard W. Guy is a British-born structural engineer and author known for his work on the Expanding Earth hypothesis and its proposed connection to receding sea levels and the development of ancient civilizations. He is one of the original foundation members of the Expanding Earth Exchange, and the author of several books arguing that the Earth's seas have been slowly receding over geological time as a consequence of an expanding planet.

Biography

Guy is a structural engineer with some forty years of engineering experience across the United States, the Middle East, England and the West Indies. For roughly thirty years he ran a consultancy practice as Chief Engineer and Chief Executive Officer of Amalgamated Design Group Ltd. Over the course of his career he worked on the design and construction of major structures including airports, harbors, docks, highways, bridges, dams and oil refineries, many of them built on land that he observed had once lain beneath the sea. He has resided in the Bronx, New York.

Guy is one of the original, foundation members of the Expanding Earth Exchange, which was founded in California in 1979 by Dr. S. Warren Carey, H. Hugh Wilson and Ralph Groves. Members of the Exchange came from a range of backgrounds in science and engineering, each having arrived at the idea of Earth expansion through their own discipline. Guy stated that during his long engineering career he observed what he interpreted as subtle patterns of Earth expansion in the design and failure of structures, particularly bridges and dams, which he attributed to the phenomenon.

Scientific contributions

Guy's central claim is that the Earth is expanding and that this expansion, rather than the conventional explanation of post-glacial isostatic rebound, accounts for evidence of falling sea levels around the world. He based his argument primarily on mathematical reasoning rather than on geological fieldwork, and accepted plate tectonics only in part, holding that it did not answer all of the relevant questions.

According to Guy, sea-floor spreading continually adds surface area to the Earth. He pointed to the mid-Atlantic rift, the Red Sea and the floor of the Gulf of California as sites where lava is being added to the crust, and interpreted rifts, faults and river valleys, such as those of the Mississippi and Colorado rivers, as expansion features. He argued that over millions of years volcanoes and rifts have added enormous volumes of lava to the Earth's surface, citing formations such as the Snake River Canyon, and that this added material increases the planet's surface area.

Guy proposed that, because the land area expands both above and below the sea, sea levels fall worldwide, producing the "receding seas" for which he said evidence can be found on every continent, including marine fossils in mountain ranges. He further argued that this process shaped human history, contending that ancient civilizations began in high mountains and migrated down river valleys as the seas withdrew, giving as examples the Inca of the Andes, the peoples of the Himalayas, the Chinese, and the civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates and the Indus valley.

Guy set out these ideas in his 1990 book Is Planet Earth Expanding?, published by the Institute of the Expanding Earth, and developed them further in later works. The Expanding Earth hypothesis as a whole is not accepted by mainstream science; modern satellite measurements have found no significant change in the Earth's radius, and no accepted mechanism exists for a large increase in the planet's mass or volume.

Abstracts

2011 - "Expanding Earth and Receding Seas" (Read in full)

Books

2009 - "The Ascent of Man: Downhill All the Way"
2007 - "The Mysterious Receding Seas" (Read in full)
1991 - "Is Planet Earth Expanding?"

Media

2009 - Discover the Mystery of the World's Receding Seas (Audio Commentary)

External links

The Mysterious Receding Seas at Amazon
The Mysterious Receding Seas at Goodreads

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-Richard Guy is one of the original, foundation members of the Expanding Earth Exchange which was founded in California in 1979 by Dr. S. Warren Carey, Mr. H. Hugh Wilson and Mr. Ralph Groves. Members of the EEE come from all sorts of backgrounds in science and engineering. All arrived at the realization of Earth Expansion through their particular discipline.   Richard Guy is a Structural Engineer with forty years of Engineering experience in the United States, Middle East, England and the West Indies. He has run a consultancy practice as Chief Engineer and CEO of Amalgamated Design Group Ltd for the last thirty years. During his long career he has observed subtle patterns of Earth Expansion in the design of many structures particularly bridges and dams. Many dam and bridge failures can be attributed to earth expansion but nothing is known and, much less, understood about this phenomenon. In his book "IS PLANET EARTH EXPANDING" published in 1990 he sets out briefly the hypothesis of Earth Expansion and manifestations of the phenomenon.
+'''Richard W. Guy''' is a British-born structural engineer and author known for his work on the [[Expanding Earth]] hypothesis and its proposed connection to receding sea levels and the development of ancient civilizations. He is one of the original foundation members of the Expanding Earth Exchange, and the author of several books arguing that the Earth's seas have been slowly receding over geological time as a consequence of an expanding planet.
-<b>Earth Expansion</b>
+==Biography==
-My theory of the expanding Earth is based not on geological observations but rather on mathematics. I go along partially with the tectonic theory except that it does not answer all the questions.
+Guy is a structural engineer with some forty years of engineering experience across the United States, the Middle East, England and the West Indies. For roughly thirty years he ran a consultancy practice as Chief Engineer and Chief Executive Officer of Amalgamated Design Group Ltd. Over the course of his career he worked on the design and construction of major structures including airports, harbors, docks, highways, bridges, dams and oil refineries, many of them built on land that he observed had once lain beneath the sea. He has resided in the Bronx, New York.
-My theory is that sea floor spreading adds dimension to the surface area of the Earth. The mid-Atlantic rift is constantly oozing lava as well as the Red Sea and the floor of the California gulf. The cracks in the ocean floor as well as on land are the expansion joints. E.g., the river valleys all over the surface of the Earth. The Mississippi and the Colorado rivers in the United States as well as many others are manifestations of the faulting and rifting that experience earthquake action of greater frequency. Over millions of years, volcanoes and rifts have pumped inestimable amounts of lava or magma over the face of the Earth, e.g., Snake River Canyon which is a fault in a one mile thickness of lava. All this lava adds dimension to the surface of the Earth.
+Guy is one of the original, foundation members of the Expanding Earth Exchange, which was founded in California in 1979 by Dr. [[S. Warren Carey]], H. Hugh Wilson and Ralph Groves. Members of the Exchange came from a range of backgrounds in science and engineering, each having arrived at the idea of Earth expansion through their own discipline. Guy stated that during his long engineering career he observed what he interpreted as subtle patterns of Earth expansion in the design and failure of structures, particularly bridges and dams, which he attributed to the phenomenon.
-The interesting part comes when we look at the question of relative sea levels around the world. Man uses sea level as a datum for his land elevations Current theories state that the land rises by rebound due to the absence of glaciers. I do not agree. I say that the land area expands both on land and under the sea dictating that the sea levels fall all around the Earth. This explains the receding seas and the evidence to that effect all around the world. There is evidence of sea life on all continents on Earth. Whales in Montreal, fossils in the mountains of France and Africa all signifying sea life is eras gone. My theory, therefore, states that the lands did not rebound but rather the land expanded and hence water levels fell. All around the world we see evidence of receding seas.
+==Scientific contributions==
-The most interesting application of this theory is when we look at the development of ancient civilization to the present time. All ancient civilizations started in the high mountains and moved down river valleys to keep up with the receding seas. Examples of this are the Incas in the high Andes, the Tibetans in the Himalayas, the Chinese, the great civilizations of the Tigris and Euphraytes, as well as the Indus valley civilizations. All ancient civilizations develop downwards from high places. Noah's Ark is supposed to have landed on the top of Mt. Ararat in Turkey. That's a very interesting story, for Mt. Ararat is 16,945 feet above sea level today. The Persian Gulf is now hundreds of miles further out than in ancient times
+Guy's central claim is that the Earth is expanding and that this expansion, rather than the conventional explanation of post-glacial isostatic rebound, accounts for evidence of falling sea levels around the world. He based his argument primarily on mathematical reasoning rather than on geological fieldwork, and accepted plate tectonics only in part, holding that it did not answer all of the relevant questions.
+According to Guy, sea-floor spreading continually adds surface area to the Earth. He pointed to the mid-Atlantic rift, the Red Sea and the floor of the Gulf of California as sites where lava is being added to the crust, and interpreted rifts, faults and river valleys, such as those of the Mississippi and Colorado rivers, as expansion features. He argued that over millions of years volcanoes and rifts have added enormous volumes of lava to the Earth's surface, citing formations such as the Snake River Canyon, and that this added material increases the planet's surface area.
+Guy proposed that, because the land area expands both above and below the sea, sea levels fall worldwide, producing the "receding seas" for which he said evidence can be found on every continent, including marine fossils in mountain ranges. He further argued that this process shaped human history, contending that ancient civilizations began in high mountains and migrated down river valleys as the seas withdrew, giving as examples the Inca of the Andes, the peoples of the Himalayas, the Chinese, and the civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates and the Indus valley.
+Guy set out these ideas in his 1990 book ''Is Planet Earth Expanding?'', published by the Institute of the Expanding Earth, and developed them further in later works. The Expanding Earth hypothesis as a whole is not accepted by mainstream science; modern satellite measurements have found no significant change in the Earth's radius, and no accepted mechanism exists for a large increase in the planet's mass or volume.
 ==Abstracts==
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 ==Books==
 * 2009 - "[[The Ascent of Man: Downhill All the Way]]"
 * 2007 - "[[The Mysterious Receding Seas]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Receding-Seas-Richard-Guy/dp/1413439918/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303261999&sr=8-1 Read in full])
 * 1991 - "[[Is Planet Earth Expanding?]]"
 ==Media==
 * 2009 - [http://www.worldsci.org/audio/RichardGuySoundAuthors.mp3 Discover the Mystery of the World's Receding Seas] (Audio Commentary)
+==External links==
+* [https://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Receding-Seas-Richard-Guy/dp/1413439918 ''The Mysterious Receding Seas''] at Amazon
+* [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4893629 ''The Mysterious Receding Seas''] at Goodreads
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