Faint Young Sun Paradox and the Expanding Earth Hypothesis
| dc.contributor.author | Nyambuya, G. G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-04T10:04:26Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-26T13:01:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-04T10:04:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-26T13:01:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-06 | |
| dc.description | Article | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | 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] | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.13140/RG.2.2.33922.99522 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://196.220.97.103:4000/handle/123456789/912 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | ResearchGate | en_US |
| dc.subject | Expanding Earth | en_US |
| dc.subject | Newton’s Law of Cooling | en_US |
| dc.subject | Radiation Balance Equation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Faint Young Sun Paradon | en_US |
| dc.title | Faint Young Sun Paradox and the Expanding Earth Hypothesis | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |