Ancient Life’s Gravity and its
Implications for the Expanding Earth
by
Stephen W. Hurrell
Implications for the Expanding Earth
by
Stephen W. Hurrell
Abstract
Galileo Galilei emphasised in the 17th century how scale effects impose an upper limit on the size of life. It is now understood that scale effects are a limiting factor for the size of life. A study of scale effects reveals that the relative scale of life would vary in different gravities with the result that the relative scale of land life is inversely proportional to the strength of gravity. This implies that a reduced gravity would explain the increased scale of ancient life such as the largest dinosaurs. In this paper, various methods such as dynamic similarity, leg bone strength, ligament strength and blood pressure are used to estimate values of ancient gravity assuming a Reduced Gravity Earth. These results indicate that gravity was less on the ancient Earth and has slowly increased up to its present-day value. The estimates of the Earth’s ancient reduced gravity indicated by ancient life are also compared with estimates of gravity for Constant Mass and Increasing Mass Expanding Earth models based on geological data. These comparisons show that the Reduced Gravity Earth model agrees more closely with an Increasing Mass Expanding Earth model.
Key Words: Ancient gravity, Reduced gravity Earth, Scale effects, Expanding Earth palaeogravity.
Published: Dec 2012
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Hurrell, S. (2012). Ancient Life’s Gravity and its Implications for the Expanding Earth. In: The Earth Expansion Evidence: A challenge for geology, geophysics and astronomy. International School of Geophysics, Erice, Sicily, Italy, 978-8854856936.
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Anotow Lac on Facebook - The Multi-One Theory : Domino Effect of Meteorite Impact in Caribbean Sea and the Explanation of the Dinosaurs Extinction by an Increase of Gravity https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357252388
Stanislaw Stasiak on Facebook - Scrolling on page 16 back and forth gives a beautiful animation 🙂All previous 15 pages give one information gravity ~45-60% of current gravity. But how to explain that without increased Earth's mass? Did i mention here Brian J. Ford (to be found on Linkedin, and YouTube - still alive). He has suggested a different explanation - IMO the best, all these giant animals had to be water creatures, like hippos and crocodiles. He provided some other arguments for that beside the problem with gravity like temperature - water was shallow and hot, ~30'C allowed them to be cold-blooded reptiles yet to live very active, dynamic lives.
Stephen Hurrell on X - Grok - what's this all about: The X post by Stephen Hurrell (@dinoxorg), focused on palaeogravity research, shares his article linking larger ancient life scales like dinosaurs to weaker past gravity via biomechanical methods including leg bone strength and blood pressure limits.
Hurrell's analysis uses scale effect principles, originally from Galileo, to estimate reduced ancient gravity levels that align better with an Increasing Mass Expanding Earth model than constant-mass versions.
The piece concludes that gradually increasing gravity over time explains fossil size patterns and matches geological expansion evidence from ancient Earth reconstructions.
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