Mathigicians: The Earth's apparent Rotation, Earthquakes and the impossibility of long ages.

Using 'the science' and its own logic, a 4 billion year history of this planet, given the effects of earthquakes on rotation is impossible. Or, catastrophism reigns. Or, no rotation. Pick one.

The Einstotle having some laughs at the academy. All sorts of magic exists. Planets speed up, slow down, reverse their rotations, change their tilts, all over endless time, in a ‘steady state’, no catastrophism allowed. Nice and gentle.

“...Meanwhile, NASA scientists calculated that the redistribution of mass by the earthquake might have shortened the day by a couple of millionths of a second and tilted the Earth’s axis slightly. On a larger scale, the unbuckling and shifting moved the planet’s mass, on average, closer to its center, and just as a figure skater who spins faster when drawing the arms closer, the Earth’s rotation speeds up. Richard S. Gross, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, calculated that the length of the day was shortened by 1.8 millionths of a second.” (Quake Moves Japan Closer to U.S. and Alters Earth’s Spin,” Kenneth Chang, March 13, 2011, in NYT)

Quake, Rotate, Tilt

The above story is repeated every year. Rinse, repeat. Invariably, when major earthquakes or tsunamis occur we are inundated with mainstream ‘science’ articles declaring that the Earth, as a result of the force coming from these catastrophes, was slowed in its rotation rate and/or its axis moved (Gross, Chao, 2006). The rotation rate is said to change by microseconds and the axial tilt by inches after significant earthquakes or colossal tsunamis are experienced (Fodor, 2019).

If the land masses are moved toward the centre there is an increase in rotation. If they are dispersed there would be a decrease in rotational rate (the figure skater analogy).

In general, ‘the science’ believes that given the Earth’s rotation any terrestrial event will affect the velocity of the rotation, impact the gravitational field and shift the poles (Dahlen, 1971 and ‘Dahlen’s theory’). This is very curious indeed, given the supposed 4 billion (soon trillion?) years of this planets existence. Such dislocations would lead to catastrophe.

If the above is true, just based on what we know about earthquakes and other seismic-terrestrial impacts, there would be no life on this planet given the massive shifts and catastrophic changes which would ensue.

We discussed previously why Copernicanism has a problem with planetary rotations over endless ages. In the past decade, Venus’ rotation, which spins the wrong way, has supposedly slowed down by 6-10 minutes just in the past decade. Mars for some reason is rotating faster. If the same was applied to our Earth, all life here would end.

What has caused Venus’ ice-skater-pirouette to slow down, or Mars to perhaps speed up? Does Mars suffer from Mars-quakes? No one knows. ‘The science’ maintains that space is simply a void and absent of energy or material (of course not, the aether exists, though it is denied by the standard model). So what causes rotational speed variation?

Let’s break out the calculators and move the IQ needle back to common sense. Let’s put away the models and word salads. We can add up all the earthquakes occurring on an annual basis and go back in time to assess the overall impact. We can see if any of this makes sense.

Literally Quaking and Shaking right now

On average there are about 1.5 million earthquakes per annum. About 90% are in the 2 – 3 Rictor scale range; about 9% in the 3 to 4 range; and the rest between the 4 to 9 (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/, Xu et al, 2014).

Employ 2 assumptions based on ‘the science’ and its own data.

• Assumption # 1 – accept a low estimate that about 25,000 significant earthquakes (above 4 richter) occur each year that would affect the Earth’s rotation and axis, as claimed by ‘the science’.

• Assumption #2 - based on present data, the Earth’s rotation is changed by 0.5 microseconds for significant earthquakes (Chao et al, 2005). A microsecond is 0.000001 seconds. 0.5 microseconds in mathematical terms, is 0.0000005 seconds.

Now the calculator:

1. First, backdate and accumulate the totals to 8000 BC.

2. There will be 250 million noticeable earthquakes which have shaken the planet in the past 10.000 years (10.000 years x 25,000 quakes).

3. This means the Earth’s rotation has changed by 125 seconds or 2.08 minutes since 8000 BC (250 million quakes x 0.0000005 seconds = 125 seconds).

4. Given the paradigm of endless time let’s go beyond 8.000 B.C. to say 108,000 BC.

5. The Earth’s rotation has now increased or decreased (depending on the movement of land masses). If the impact is to decrease the rotation, we have a reduction of 20.8 minutes (above multiplied by 10 x 2.08 minutes), which yields a rotation of 23 hours, 36.2 minutes.

6. Endless time….let’s use 1 million years, and our planet’s rotation has been reduced by about 200 minutes (10 x 20.8 minutes given above). Wow. This means a rotational loss of 15%.

7. Alright, let’s rewind time back to 10 million years and we are faced with a 2000-minute rotational decrease.

8. At 100 million years it is 20,000 minutes, 200 million mya about 40,000 minutes.

There are 24 hours in a day, or 1440 minutes. If we have a rotational decline of say 2000 minutes, which is what 10 million years gives us, it means the Earth is now in reverse! The ancient Greeks taught that the Earth used to spin East to West, not West to East as it does now. Were they right?

In short, a 2,000-minute rotational reduction, based on an Earthly age of ‘only’ 10 million years, would be a planetary-scale disaster that would render the Earth uninhabitable. The ‘day’ would be 9 hours long.

The change in centrifugal force would alter the effective gravity felt on the planet's surface. Gravity would be weaker at the new equator and stronger at the new poles. This sudden shift in gravitational forces, combined with other effects, would make it virtually impossible for life to survive. Anathema to ‘the science’!

Needless to say we now we have a problem with Copernicanism, long ages, endless ‘Darwinism’ and our Earthly rotation. Just a few million years would mean the destruction of this planet. It would simply rotate and tilt into catastrophe.

If the ‘earthquake’ impact on rotation and tilt is accurate, and if this planet is anything close to its supposed 4 billion years of existence, the sphere would long ago have spun itself into destruction.

Dispensing with scientistic dogma, and with the IQ needle still firmly in the common sense range, there are only a few explanations.

1. The Earth rotates but the current estimates of earthquake volume and impact are wrong (but ‘the science’ is adamant that their assumptions are valid). For Darwinians and Copernicans this is their only exit.

2. The Earth rotates and catastrophism, including rotational reversals are valid over its long age (~4 billion years). This would mean however, no life on this planet.

3. The Earth rotates but the Earth is not 4 billion (Trillion, Brazilian, Darwinian) years old, but much younger, therefore life has survived (would be <10 m.y. old)

4. The Earth does not rotate, is immobile and could be old, or young in age. That is a separate discussion and debate. Earthquakes would perforce have an impact but would not change the rotation of the Earth (there isn’t any), though they should still impact the tilt, however tangentially. If the Earth is immobile the impact of earthquakes or tsunamais would be transferred to the universe at large.

A conundrum indeed. Explanations 2, 3 and 4 completely annihilate most of modern ‘science’.

The Velikovsky Heresy:, 'Worlds in Collision', Catastrophism versus Uniformatarian theology.

4 billion years old?

If we apply the above logic to the purported age of this planet, it means that the Earth has reversed rotations innumerable times. Were you taught this in ‘school’?

We made 2 key assumptions, one being that 25.000 or so ‘significant’ earthquakes occur each year. This is a low estimate based on a total of 1.5 million each year. Reduce it down to 15.000 or 10.000. Take the microsecond impact or assumption #2 down from 0.5 microseconds (.0000005 seconds) to 0.25. It does not matter.

Even when you play with the assumption parameters, over time the Earth’s rotation, pace establishment physics, will be dramatically affected, and life will not exist. This calculus has only included earthquakes but there are many impacts on the Earth and its alleged spin.

We would need to add, on an annual basis, the hundreds of aftershocks, tsunamis, atomic and high-powered explosions, hurricanes, tornados and even car driving which supposedly affects the rotation! If we add up all these other forces over thousands of years, the heliocentric system has a very fragile Earth that is easily knocked out of its rotational motion and couldn’t possibly sustain life.

What say ‘the science’?

VLBI and inferential tautology

Very Long Baseline Interferometry or VLBI is a consortium of some 40 organisations, under the aegis of the US military and its proxy called ‘NASA’, which is tasked with the creation of high-resolution images of cosmic radio sources, such as quasars and the non-existing black holes (Kellerman, Bouton, 1998). It works by linking multiple radio telescopes across a continent and the entire globe, effectively creating a single, giant telescope with a resolution thousands of times better than a single dish (Thomson et al, 2017).

VLBI distributed architecture, there are VLBI’s by nation state as well. If anyone has worked in a large, complex, distributed networking environment, you will know the myriad problems which exist, from hardware, to software, to data quality, to white noise and invalid data assessment.

As you would expect there are multiple layers and sub programs, a real matrix of complex projects and overlapping missions. The total budget for these efforts is about U$100 million per annum, running for the past 30 years. We are looking at billions in total spend. Such cash-eating machines are forced to ‘discover’ whatever it is they are chasing, whether it is real or not. Given the vast sums involved, the author would assign this program to the ‘scientific money laundering’ category.

The VLBI is relevant here because it is usually referenced as the primary method to calculate changes in the Earth’s rotation (Shuh, Nothnagel, 2009). However, like all ‘the science’ the underlying, rather tautological assumption is that the Earth is rotating! Isn’t that convenient.

How does VLBI work?

To be simple there are two interferometers, which as we discussed with the Michelson-Morley 1887 failure to find the motion of this planet, is a machine that can detect slight phase shifts in the wavelengths of light. In the case of VLBI there are plates which are placed on either side of the Earth, or 8000 miles apart. Light from a distant stellar object is absorbed by each interferometer. These are usually waves from a quasar or radio source galaxy.

The interferometer will calculate the difference in the phases of the waves (radio or light) between two interferometer plates. There are many possible reasons why a difference is recorded.

1. The source has moved,

2. The Earth has moved,

3. The radiation has moved (or the radio wave signal is corrupted),

4. There is a delay or interference in the radio wave,

5. Obvious issues exist with geographically dispersed equipment, hardware and software and associated readings of signals from space.

Those are some reasonable explanations as to why a light interferometer measurement will render a differential recording. But not if you are ‘the science’. Options 1, 3 and 5 are ignored. Option 4 is dealt with by the usual infilling of a variable estimate.

It is simply assumed by the US military (or specifically its proxy NASA, and the Jet Propulsion Lab), that the Earth’s rotational movement is the issue based on their rather tautological assumption that the Earth rotates! This is what passes for ‘science’ (Bohm, Shuh, 2007).

Given this circular logic, if there is a difference in how the single stellar source is received by the two interferometers, it is assumed the difference is due to the Earth’s rotational change, not because the source had moved or the radio-wave transmission is at issue. Essentially, the way in which NASA or JPL have set up the VLBI, they can have no means of determining whether the movement was due to the Earth, the radio-wave, or the source. This is unscientific.

We have discussed different types of motion on this substack (example Sagnac’s experiment, the fraud of Stellar parallax and many others).

This flaw is especially significant since it is already known that stars, quasars and galaxies have a ‘proper motion’, which means that each stellar object has independent motion with respect to other stars.

This includes an independent drift motion. ‘The science’ is well aware of this.

Inferring not proving

If we apply these facts to VLBI we easily eviscerate their apriori conclusions.

• A drift or proper or radial motion would cause the interferometer to record a differential change and given this is the norm for stellar objects why would any registration of a variance ‘prove’ Earthly rotation?

• The source therefore, not the Earth, is the most likely causation for recorded difference. Relativity discusses the moving observer and the velocity of the source as proof of dilation and ‘simultaneity’ (it is wrong). So again we see a contradiction within ‘the science’ and its own theories and canonical dogmas.

• We can also add issues with the radio-wave itself (given its unstable properties, below).

The only way NASA or JPL can distinguish between the source and receiver, would be to permit radiation absorption from at least 3, if not more sources. If it is found that all the other sources are moving in the same precise way as the original source, then there is evidence that the Earth is rotating. Without this methodology, all VLBI measurements are invalid to prove whether the Earth is rotating.

Needless to say, the method of using more than 3 sources is ignored.

Another problem for VLBI measurements is that they are performed using radio wavelengths. These are very long wavelengths compared to X-rays or gamma rays. Longer wavelengths create poor resolution. Hence, what may look like a phase shift in VLBI is probably only a false reading due to poor resolution or even equipment failure. This is never discussed of course.

Bottom Line

If ‘establishment’ theory is correct that the Earth changes its rotation rate every time there is a cataclysmic disturbance on its surface, we would have seen the difference over time. We would have seen the effects in the weather, the jet stream, biological rhythms, and just about anything that is dependent on the precision of a sidereal day - in our own life time!

Given the calculations performed, over just 1-10 million years, there would obviously be no life on this planet.

Further, given that stellar objects do have proper motion (or radial velocity) and drift, and given the issues with radio waves, it is impossible to claim that only the Earth’s rotation is the reason for a VLBI differential being recorded for radio-wave measurements from stellar objects.

Using some common sense and basic maths we have shown that over the purported life of this planet, the impact just of earthquakes, means that we should be spinning in a complete reversal some 10 times per second. Even if we reduce or rearrange some key assumptions the end result is that our rotation would be within hours if not minutes and there would be no life on this planet.

One is forced to deduce a few simple, Occamesque conclusions. One is that this planet is not rotating. Or two, the age of this planet is not 4 billion years. Or three, the planet is of endless age and catastrophism is our planetary reality. Take your pick ‘Einstein’.

Now if I look just at VLBI without my establishment glasses on, I see no evidence for a rotating Earth. Given the complexity of the system, one should not assume that a press-released marketing statement is valid. You would have to audit the system end to end, and in so doing as anyone who has worked in complex, distributed systems understands, you will find many errors and a litany of gross assumptions and artificial estimates.

Not only is there no proof from the VLBI that the Earth is rotating, recorded history has shown that there is no evidence of any appreciable difference between solar time and sidereal time!

Establishment ‘science’ informs us that the sidereal (star time) is immutable and has always been, 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, versus the solar time of 24 hours. How is this remotely possible when they narrate the changes in rotation and axial tilt due to terrestrial impacts? Their own claim is silliness!

The above objection is never countenanced by ‘the science’ and remains completely unexplained by VLBI.

None of this is known or discussed and it certainly does not show up in ‘education’ curricula. Critical thinking, the ‘scientific method’ and all that.

All hail.

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NASA says a slowing Earth’s rotation is causing the Earthquakes! As expected. The usual misdirection. So what causes a slowing rotation Mr Science? And if the Earth’s rotation is slowing down, how do you calculate a 4 billion (trillion, brazilian) year existence without catastrophe?

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Radial and Tranvserse velocity explained here

Stellar Parallax, Light Years and incorrect dogma around time and distance. Another disproof of Relativity.

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Earthquakes and their Effect on Earth's Rotation

• Gross, R. S., & Chao, B. F. (2006). The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake: What the Earth told us.

• Dahlen, F. A. (1971). The effect of a sudden change in the polar moment of inertia on the Earth's rotation. Foundational analytical expressions (known as Dahlen's theory) for calculating how changes in the Earth's inertia tensor due to earthquakes affect its rotation.

• Xu, Z., Xu, S., & Liao, X. (2014). Co-seismic changes in Earth rotation from great earthquakes since 1960. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(4), 1184-1191. Comprehensive analysis of the co-seismic effects of major earthquakes on Earth's rotation, building upon Dahlen's work.

• Varga, P., Gross, R. S., & Chao, B. F. (2005). Can earthquakes affect the Earth's rotation? Surveys in Geophysics, 26(1), 1-19. Survey paper on studies and theories on the relationship between earthquakes and Earth's rotation.

• Fodor, L. (2019). On the mutual interrelation between Earth rotation and earthquake activity. Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE. Analyses the bi-directional relationship, examining not only how earthquakes affect rotation but also how changes in Earth's rotation may influence seismic activity.

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)

• Thompson, A. R., Moran, J. M., & Swenson, G. W. (2017). Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy (3rd ed.). Provides a detailed, technical overview of the VLBI technique, its history, principles, and applications.

• Böhm, J., & Schuh, H. (2007). VLBI for geophysics and astrometry. In Observation of the Earth System from Space (pp. 53-85). Springer. Geodetic and astrometric applications of VLBI, which are the main uses outside of pure astronomy. It explains how VLBI is used to determine Earth orientation parameters and maintain reference frames.

• Kellermann, K. I., & Bouton, J. (1998). The NRAO Very Long Baseline Array. In The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (pp. 129-144). Provides insight into the design, construction, and operational aspects of a major VLBI facility. You can see just how complex all of it is. Complexity is not your friend. There are many issues with assuming that the end data product is ‘right’.

• Schuh, H., & Nothnagel, A. (2009). The International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS): A service for the global geodetic and astronomical community. Journal of Geodesy, 83(8), 735-748