An Unheralded Giant of Geology : Warren Carey

Professor (Emeritus) S. Warren Carey, University of Tasmania, renowned geologist, author and unbending patriarch of the Earth Expansion Hypothesis,[1] has now written a third book, this one with the sweeping title “Earth, Universe, Cosmos.” His first two books, “The Expanding Earth”[2] and “Theories of the Earth and Universe,”[3] did not make any best seller list because few geologists or geophysicists understood or could foresee the impact of expansion on the incredibly complex subject of planetary birth and growth. The subject is comparable to the medical search to understand development and functioning of the human brain or the human genome. Indeed, the philosophy of creation of the planet, and life itself, are intimately affected by Carey’s expansion hypothesis, but the scientific world doesn’t realize it yet. Many younger scientists have never heard of Carey or the expansion hypothesis, and only a handful of scientists, young and old, realize the Earth is expanding rapidly and the rate of expansion is accelerating—the message Carey tried to convey with exceptional detail in technical terminology that not everyone could comprehend. Unfortunately, most geologists and geophysicists do not believe Carey’s logic and encyclopaedic knowledge because they do not share his imagination and insight, and few of his peers have a comparable level of technical knowledge and erudition. Carey’s latest book is a masterful tour de force with a vision of Earth and the heavens that will not come into focus for the rest of the scientific world until expansion of the Earth is proved and some hitherto unrecognized principles of fundamental physics are validated. In The Expanding Earth Carey faced the question squarely: “What causes the earth to expand? My first answer is I do not know. Empirically I am satisfied that the earth is expanding. My second answer is that I may not necessarily be expected to know. The answer could only be expected to be known if all relevant fundamental physics is already known.” Carey has vehemently denounced subduction as a “myth” invented without any substantive evidence that subduction occurs anywhere on the planet. “Academic sheep” is one of his gentler references to believers of subduction, an unfortunate idea invented by geophysicists to solve a philosophical (not geophysical) problem—the self-induced delusion that growth of new seafloor in the Atlantic Ocean must be offset by an equal amount of older Pacific seafloor in order for Earth’s diameter to remain constant (a tenet of Laplace’s nebular hypothesis—the basis for the self-delusion.)[4] Geophysicists and seismologists trying to decipher the mystery of earthquakes will be intrigued by the success of one French scientist in predicting volcanic eruptions. [Volcanos and earthquakes will one day be recognized as secondary consequences of expansion and localized crustal adjustments to maintain surface or spherical equilibrium, as explained in the Accreation (creation by accretion) hypothesis.— LSM] The final four chapters, Solar System, Stars, Gravitation, and Cosmology, are exceptionally thought-provoking and should stimulate the imagination of any thoughtful physicist, astronomer or cosmologist who takes the time to read them with an open and inquiring