INTRODUCTION/MAIN Introduction/Main BACKGROUND Seafarer's Challenge Why This Interest Continental Drift Oppositions to Drift Craftsman's Approach EMPIRICAL MODEL The Empirical Model Expansion Basics Model Construction Expansion Basics Model Construction Model Demonstration Riverbed Formation Video Demonstration CONCLUSIONS Conclusions Summary of Evidence The Mid-Oceans Crests Making Mountains & The Pacific Ocean Moon Expulsion Earthquakes An Impact Vision EXPANSION CARTOGRAPHY Expansion Cartography The Big Picture Waterworld Inland Evidence EXPAND HOW? Expand How? Owen's Plasma Core Continental Shelves EPILOGUE Epilogue BOOK INFO Book Info / Feedback

THE EXPANDED EARTH Upon occasion, when viewing a detailed map or globe, readers not prone to blind faith may have wondered… Why are the continents where they are? and, perhaps, how the mid-ocean crests came to be so uniformly centred between them. To attribute the precision of placement to the random events of continental drift and its adjuncts -- the currently accepted theories -- is unfounded. Expansion offers a logical answer. The theory of Earth expansion has remained a scientific impossibility without the support of physical fact. Despite both logic and intuitive reasoning (based on the look of the Earth's features), past attempts to create a model have been unsuccessful. Here, presented as never before, is a live model, one which is enduring and provides consistent results which are readily observed. The model offers empirical evidence of expansion. The purpose for presenting this evidence is two-fold. The first aim is to promote a general awareness among readers of the radial expansion theory as a logical thesis of continental positioning, having found that this concept is relatively unknown or often too quickly dismissed by scholars without consideration of the substantial evidence. Furthermore, in contrast to continental drift and its supporting theories, the components of Earth expansion are far more significant in terms of understanding the origins of our planet's physical properties. Empirically supported with a live model, the theory of global expansion promoted here challenges these theories. Why the continents achieved their current position is explained with this model of an expanded Earth. Don't know much about geology? That's o.k.. This research is accessible to the lay person; it's not full of scientific jargon. It has definitions for the ones it does use and lots of graphics to help. Check the Background to find out more about the expansion theory, the project itself and the oppositions to continental drift. The Empirical Model explains the basics of Earth expansion and the model's construction and demonstration. The Conclusions analyse the evidence and may cause you to re-evaluate what you were taught in elementary school. A look at Expansion Cartography will re-train your eye to see the renderings of expansion on our planet. And when you're done reading, why not go to the source? In Book Info/Feedback, respond to the author, see a book report and find info about ordering a hard copy of the book. You can use the Table of Contents to navigate or, to read through in sequence, just follow… This link for the background.