Scott,
One thing I meant to add to the previous - about the "methodology" for an expanding earth - and it is not mentioned in the Wiki piece - is the assertion of Dr. R. Mills of large scale "hydrino" T formation in the solar corona. Side note: Due to trademark concerns, we are usually calling the below-ground-state hydrogen: "f/H" for "fractional hydrogen". Mills was not the first to suggest the species, but he has put many man-years of effort into his evolving theory, and is generally given credit for adding substance to the basic concept, despite the flaws that have turned up in the mathematics (according to critics on the HSG forum). Anyway, given that Mills could be partially correct - and has opined that as much as half of the energy output of the Sun is generated in the solar corona, in the form of EUV from ongoing deep f/H shrinkage (as opposed to fusion) - if true, then that would amount to millions of tons per second of neutral material (or even Rydberg matter) being spewed outwards, and over time this can provide some mass accretion for an expanding earth hypothesis (so long as all planets expand, and not just earth). It also explains the Oort cloud and possibly even a proportion of "dark matter" in "the big picture". The downside of the viewpoint is the side-effect of the sun losing more mass over time than with fusion, and consequently that should mean that the earth's orbit would expand gradually over time. Global cooling would be the result of that . <g> . and this winter seems to be one that bolsters the Anti-Algore contingent. Let's don't go there. BTW - This view of a "solar origin" for large amounts of cosmological f/H does not necessarily negate Fran's view of a Casimir cavity based species, which is transient, as opposed to permanent. There could easily be a middle ground, or more inclusive mega-approach which anyone might wish to consider at some point: for instance, one in which the "cavity origin" is a subset of the broader phenomenon. Perhaps the first few fractional levels are always transient (and Mills is wrong on that) but after a certain fractional threshold is reached, or energy-depletion level is reached, the species shrinks all the way to Rydberg matter. This could explain some of the recent "pycnodeuterium" (Arata, et al) results rather elegantly since that only happens after lots of heat has been given up over several days in the experiment. A most enticing feature is that it all (cosmological, macro-scale and nanoscale) can be tied into a revised ZPE hypothesis with quantum flux as the common denominator (as explained via the Dirac epo). R. Mills, to his extreme discredit, is a ZPE denier ;-) Jones
