# Is the Earth Still Growing?
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*Exploring a radical idea about our planet, Mars, and hidden sources of energy*
When we picture Earth, we usually think of a finished product: a blue-and-green ball that has been the same size for billions of years, with continents drifting around on shifting tectonic plates. That’s the story told in geology textbooks. But some scientists and independent researchers have asked a surprising question: **what if the Earth itself is growing?**
This idea, known as the **Growing Earth hypothesis**, challenges the foundations of plate tectonics. It suggests that long ago, Earth was much smaller. Back then, the continents might have fit together neatly, almost wrapping the entire surface of a shrunken globe. As time passed, Earth expanded. Oceans opened up, mid-ocean ridges appeared, and the continents drifted apart—not just because they were sliding on plates, but because the planet beneath them was literally getting bigger.
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## Where the Idea Came From
Hints of the growing Earth idea date back more than a century. Early maps of the world showed that the coastlines of South America and Africa looked like puzzle pieces. In the 20th century, geologist Samuel Warren Carey became one of the most famous advocates of Earth expansion, arguing that spreading ridges and continental separation made more sense if Earth was increasing in size.
Mainstream science instead adopted **plate tectonics**, explaining continental drift as the movement of rigid plates pushed around by convection currents in the mantle. Plate tectonics is supported by mountains of evidence: earthquakes, volcano patterns, seafloor spreading, and GPS measurements. For most geologists, this is the settled story.
But expansionists ask: if the continents once formed a single landmass, why do they seem to fit better on a smaller globe than on one the size of today’s Earth? Why are mid-ocean ridges so widespread, as if the crust had been pulled apart? To them, plate tectonics feels incomplete.
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## What About Mars?
The Earth isn’t the only planet where growth might matter. Some researchers speculate that **Mars once showed signs of expansion too**. The most striking evidence is Valles Marineris, a canyon system stretching nearly 4,000 kilometers—so long it would span the United States. On a smaller globe, this kind of crack could be the scar of planetary stretching.
Yet unlike Earth, Mars appears to have stopped growing long ago. Its core cooled, its magnetic field died, and today the planet is geologically quiet. The canyon, in this interpretation, is the frozen evidence of a process that never reached full maturity. Earth, still warm and active, may be a planet that kept on expanding.
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## The Energy Question
Of course, there’s a giant problem: **where does the extra matter or energy come from?** Planets can’t just grow without a source of fuel. Gravity alone won’t do it, and no known geologic process adds new mass to a planet at the scale required.
This is where alternative physics comes in, and where the theory collides with another controversial idea: **cold fusion**.
Cold fusion—also called **low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR)**—is the claim that nuclear fusion can occur not at millions of degrees like in stars, but at much lower energies, often inside metals like palladium absorbing hydrogen. Although most of the scientific community remains skeptical, experiments over the last few decades have repeatedly hinted at unexplained heat and occasional evidence of new elements forming.
If processes like cold fusion happen in laboratories, even in limited ways, could something similar be happening deep inside planets? In that scenario, Earth’s core might be generating both **heat** (powering volcanoes and plate movement) and even **new atomic matter**. Over millions of years, that could add up to real planetary growth.
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## Why It Matters
The growing Earth idea is not accepted by mainstream geology, and most scientists consider it speculative. But it has a powerful appeal, because it asks us to step back and rethink basic assumptions. Could the continents’ drift and the ocean basins have more than one possible explanation? Could Mars’ scars tell us about a process that shaped not only one world, but many?
And if cold fusion—or some other hidden energy process—really does occur inside planets, the implications go beyond geology. It could reshape how we understand the Sun, stars, and even energy here on Earth. A working form of cold fusion could someday provide clean, nearly limitless power—something humanity has dreamed of for decades.
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## The Mystery Continues
In science, radical ideas often serve as thought experiments. Even if they don’t turn out to be true, they spark new ways of looking at data and asking questions. The Growing Earth hypothesis is a fascinating reminder that our planet is full of mysteries.
Is the Earth still expanding? Is Mars a failed example of the same process? Could cold fusion—or another hidden mechanism—be at work deep within planetary cores? These questions may not have answers yet, but they keep curiosity alive. And curiosity is where every scientific breakthrough begins.
## Notes
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_Earth
Neal Adams