Tectonic Wave Thoery vs The Tectonic Plates
Overtime, theories have come and gone. How or why some theories are accepted an others theories are not, is a mystery to me. I can only wonder how Columbus felt trying to convince those around him the world was round, or Darwin’s with his theory of evolution. Georges Lemaitre’s was a Catholic priest, an astronomer and a physics professor, who advance the concept of an expanding universe, which we know today as the Big Bang theory. Lemaitre often received harsh criticisms from other scientist. Lemaitre was even criticized by the father of modern physics Albert Einstein. Einstein told Lemaitre, “your physics is atrocious.” Today we accept Lemaitre’s theory, yet we do not know the man or the story behind his theory. The most profound ideas, have come from simple observations that have gone unnoticed by others. I can tell you from first hand knowledge, that at that moment when one’s observations leads to a new idea, you wonder why you haven’t heard of it before. A ...