Faint Young Sun Paradox and the Expanding Earth Hypothesis
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2018-06
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Abstract
We present a plausible solution to the so-called Faint
Young Sun Paradox (FYS-Paradox) within the context of the Expanding
Earth Hypothesis (EEH). We show that if — as the current
state of the art ITRF observations seem to indicate — the
Earth is expanding steadily at a paltry rate of +0.36(6)mm/yr
(Shen et al. 2015) and the Earth’s atmosphere is to have a radial
vertical height of about one and a half times the Earth’s radius
( 9860 km) from the the Earth’s surface, then, one can (might)
explain the presence of liquid water on the Earth’s surface some
3.80 − to − 2.50 billion years ago during the Archaean eon when
the Sun’s luminosity was about 75% of its current luminosity. Our
suggested (proposed) solution makes use of the veritable fact that
the albedo of an atmosphere endowed planet will vary in proportion
and in response to the expansion (or contraction) of the planet.
The Earth system is herein cast as an automatic self-regulating incubator
where the auto-self-regulating mechanism is as a result of
the solid Earth’s radial expansion. Our findings have significant
and serious implications for the conditions obtaining in the early
Earth. These conditions obtaining in the early Earth can be used as
general sine-qua-non conditions for probing the possibility of life
elsewhere in the Universe.
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Expanding Earth, Newton’s Law of Cooling, Radiation Balance Equation, Faint Young Sun Paradon
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Nyambuya, G., G., 2018. Faint Young Sun Paradox and the Expanding Earth Hypothesis. [Online] available from:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325553091. [Accessed on:14/06/2018]