The Dinosaur problem is a fascinating rabbit hole!
They were far too big to have moved in our present gravity and Uniformitarianism does not allow for Gravity to have been different in the past (or anything else for that matter).
Peter Mungo Jupp has done some great videos and analysis on this topic, examining fossils of dinosaurs too big to have lifted their necks or pterosaurs that couldn't fly without their wings breaking. Not speculation either, these forces can be calculated quite accurately.
Science doesn't like to dwell on this topic and it uses the "Excuse Of Billions" to push it away into a far distant imaginary past where we don't need to think about things.
The Electric Gravity theory (as explained by Wal Thornhill, Wilhelm Weber and others) might offer, in my humble opinion, a possible answer to this paradox. In electric gravity, the electrostatic force is dipolar - massively strong in repulsion and microscopically small in attraction (this part being "apparent gravity"). The apparent gravity is a function of the current. Now if Earth was once a satellite of Saturn in it's own little Saturnian system before our current Sun took over local affairs, the much smaller mass overall would have drawn a much smaller current from the Galaxy. This means the repulsive force would have been much less (planetary bodies would orbit much closer) but also the apparent gravity would have been much less and hense the megafauna. Then along came Sol, the 7 days light and the Flood, total destruction of megafauna, chaos in the solar system and a vastly bigger Sun drawing much more Galactic current - the planets were repulsed outwards much further and apparent gravity shot up. Most of the species that went extinct were immediately replaced by miniature replica species and megafauna never were seen again (Good luck explaining that Darwin!)
Then there is the problem of dating these events but that's another rabbit hole!
Thanks for your substack. So weight increases by a cube and strucural strength by a square. I wonder how that works for planets or even the sun. Perhaps they do not have structure, so they are not susceptible to breakage.
What would Galileo have thought about the Dinosaurs story?
re: the dinosaur problem: is it possible that earth's atmospheric pressure has changed over time, and the limit of size and weight of animals may have been affected? I don't know, but I'm just throwing it out there.
The Dinosaur problem is a fascinating rabbit hole!
They were far too big to have moved in our present gravity and Uniformitarianism does not allow for Gravity to have been different in the past (or anything else for that matter).
Peter Mungo Jupp has done some great videos and analysis on this topic, examining fossils of dinosaurs too big to have lifted their necks or pterosaurs that couldn't fly without their wings breaking. Not speculation either, these forces can be calculated quite accurately.
Science doesn't like to dwell on this topic and it uses the "Excuse Of Billions" to push it away into a far distant imaginary past where we don't need to think about things.
The Electric Gravity theory (as explained by Wal Thornhill, Wilhelm Weber and others) might offer, in my humble opinion, a possible answer to this paradox. In electric gravity, the electrostatic force is dipolar - massively strong in repulsion and microscopically small in attraction (this part being "apparent gravity"). The apparent gravity is a function of the current. Now if Earth was once a satellite of Saturn in it's own little Saturnian system before our current Sun took over local affairs, the much smaller mass overall would have drawn a much smaller current from the Galaxy. This means the repulsive force would have been much less (planetary bodies would orbit much closer) but also the apparent gravity would have been much less and hense the megafauna. Then along came Sol, the 7 days light and the Flood, total destruction of megafauna, chaos in the solar system and a vastly bigger Sun drawing much more Galactic current - the planets were repulsed outwards much further and apparent gravity shot up. Most of the species that went extinct were immediately replaced by miniature replica species and megafauna never were seen again (Good luck explaining that Darwin!)
Then there is the problem of dating these events but that's another rabbit hole!
Thinking is such a pleasure in your company.
Thanks for your substack. So weight increases by a cube and strucural strength by a square. I wonder how that works for planets or even the sun. Perhaps they do not have structure, so they are not susceptible to breakage.
What would Galileo have thought about the Dinosaurs story?
re: the dinosaur problem: is it possible that earth's atmospheric pressure has changed over time, and the limit of size and weight of animals may have been affected? I don't know, but I'm just throwing it out there.