Talk:Catastrophic plate tectonics
[edit] Cool!
Crappy theory, yes, but great idea for an action movie. Quick, someone secure the production rights! --AKjeldsenGodspeed! 19:01, 30 August 2007 (CDT)
- Can we rearrange the citation a bit? It makes it look like the cite is just the comment on the theory, when in fact the whole description is a quote from that page at TO. humanbe in 18:45, 1 September 2007 (CDT)
[edit] Heating
I've kind of handwaved this one slightly, as going into it might be too much, but I might try to explain it better. It's not the magnets that heat water directly, but radio frequency radiation that can be absorbed in the presence of a magnetic field, which then dissipates as heat. As there is radio-frequency background noise, this effect is happening constantly (barring any saturation effects, but I don't think atoms in the Earth's field are naturally saturated), so in principle you can heat water by dicking about with a magnet but this effect is so small that you need highly specialised and cryo-cooled equipment to do it. The idea that a field as strong as the Earth's putting enough heat into the oceans to produce a measurable temperature change is still completely absurd, however.
theist 17:14, 27 August 2010 (UTC)