Publication Date:
2017-04-03
Description:
The last century was dominated by the
creation of scientific theories: the newborn
Relativistic, Quantum and Cosmological
Theories are proper examples. The Earth
Sciences followed this trend by proposing the
principles of Plate tectonics.
On the contrary, the concept of the
Expanding Earth was not developed as a commonly
accepted paradigm, but was an open
field of original investigations, interpretations,
and results. This innovative attitude is evident
in the di erent interpretations of the Pacific
and Indian oceans paleogeographical evolution;
in the cosmological or incidental motor
of expansion (still to be identified); in the different
estimates of the Earth’s radial expansion.
This is a positive sign of vitality: we cannot
crystallize these ideas in a few postulates
from which we may deduce all the answers,
and to which we may constrain all data. The
Expanding Planet scheme provides a common
explanation of several complex and debated issues
relating to Paleontology, Paleomagnetism,
Geology and Climatology.
The Workshop, through oral and poster
contributions, will cover a wide range of issues
in a field that, although supported by compelling
evidence, is still in search of a definite
and commonly accepted cause for the expansion.
Our final goal is to explore the Expanding
Earth concept from di erent scientific perspectives.
Some important new entries come from
Physics and these can suitably be linked
to clues derived from Paleogeography,
Paleontology, Life Evolution, Climatology,
... etc. It is perhaps of particular significance
that these progresses in Physics, towards a
material physical space, will be presented at
the Ettore Majorana Centre, considering that
the uncle and mentor of Ettore Majorana was
Quirino Majorana, a physicist who performed
several experiments with a view to revealing
the material essence of gravity.
A group of non-expansionist researchers
in the fields of Geodesy, Oceanography and
Seismology, have accepted our invitation to deliver
lectures to our community to clarify the
limits and show up the new ways that expansionists
should consider while building their
new interpretations.
The Poster session is going to be full of
high quality presentations and also of papers by outstanding scientists in absentia, who will
not be able to come to Erice.
The Workshop should be a forum for sharing
ideas and for promoting the convergence of
aims, but also given that we are the so-called
heretics in Geosciences the birthplace of new
and original ideas, possibly destined to become
the accepted conceptions in the future.
Acknowledgements. The Directors of the Workshop,
Stefan Cwojdzi´nski and Giancarlo Scalera,
wish to heartily thank Prof. Antonino Zichichi and
Prof. Enzo Boschi for their great far-sightedness in
accepting and making possible the realization of this
Conference at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and
Centre for Scientific Culture. They have been confident
of a project whose success was not guaranteed
in advance. The followers of the expansion tectonics
are just a few today and do not have a central
and o cial position in academic institutions, but are
animated by the inner certainty of being on the right
track. This Workshop represents a further encouragement
to continue our work on the several di erent
aspects of the Expanding Earth concept.
The General Director of INGV, Tullio Pepe and
the Head of the Cultural Services Fabio Florindo
have greatly facilitated the administrative aspects of
the event.
The organization of the Earth Expansion
Evidence meeting would not have been possible
without the invaluable collaboration of Silvia Nardi
who sometimes with firm hand has assumed the role
of vice-directors , and without the important contribution
of all the sta of the EMFCSC, supervised by
Mrs. Fiorella Ruggiu.
We thanks Barbara Angioni, Daniela Riposati,
Luigi Innocenzi , Stefano Bucci, Davide Di Luigi,
and Alessandro Bannoni, who have kindly and creatively
collaborated to the colourful graphics and
aesthetic look of the Erices Meeting.
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INGV, Regione Sicilia, Ministero Sviluppo Economico
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Published
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Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily
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3.3. Geodinamica e struttura dell'interno della Terra
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5.9. Formazione e informazione
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open
Keywords:
Expanding Earth
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04. Solid Earth::04.07. Tectonophysics::04.07.99. General or miscellaneous
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04. Solid Earth::04.07. Tectonophysics::04.07.02. Geodynamics
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05. General::05.03. Educational, History of Science, Public Issues::05.03.99. General or miscellaneous
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05. General::05.09. Miscellaneous::05.09.99. General or miscellaneous
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
Conference paper
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