Paradoxes of Chronology and Riddles of the Growth of the Earth

The paper, prepared within the framework of the multidisciplinary project The Reconceptualization Epoch and of the cycle of works on the Earth as an asynchronous AC machine, is devoted to a critical analysis of the official geochronological picture of the history of the Earth and to the substantiation of an alternative hypothesis of the formation of the planet, of its land and oceans. The structure of the geochronological scale, the sequence of the hypothetical supercontinents (from Vaalbara and Ur to Gondwana, Laurasia and Pangaea) and their connection with the periods of glaciations and magnetic inversions are examined. It is shown that the theory of plate tectonics is not in a state to explain the key palaeogeographical paradoxes, first of all the geological identity of the rock formations of Tasmania and of the Grand Canyon, as well as the integrity of the ‘roots’ of the continental faults during the displacement of the continents. On the basis of the numerical estimates (the sizes of the ancient land, the NASA data on the rate of the growth of the radius of 2.8 ± 0.8 cm/year, the age of the oceanic crust) the hypothesis of the expanding Earth is substantiated, following from the critique of the geodynamo theory and from the electrodynamic model of the drift of the land towards the south magnetic pole. Separately there is examined the hypothesis about the substantial slowing down, up to a full stop, of the rotation of the Earth in the period of the Oligocene–Miocene catastrophe (23–15.9 million years ago) as a consequence of a deep electromagnetic inversion of the planet. It is shown that the growth of gravity (approximately 2.5 times per 100 million years) and the increase of the mass of the planet, predominantly from within, lead to the hypothesis about the existence inside the Earth of a vast cavity. The open questions, requiring a further development, are formulated, including about the physical mechanism of the growth of the mass and about the accuracy of the geochronological datings.