Dinosaur Extinction And Gravity Theory
The biggest unanswered question today is about dinosaur extinction. Many people, including scientists, do not know how dinosaurs were suddenly wiped out from the face of the earth. Many scientists have postulated theories and one such theory that tries to explain dinosaur extinction is Gravity Theory. |
There are some scientists who have put forward the Gravity Theory, saying that dinosaurs would not have been able to live in our present environment because of the strong gravity. This, of course, is true because the gravity that we experience today would not conducive to animals as large as the dinosaurs. Only aquatic animals can be large in our world because they have the surrounding water to support their big bulk.
Gravity Theory presumes that the gravity during the time when the dinosaurs existed was weaker than what it is today. Hence, the dinosaurs could live and flourish. It is quite possible that during the time when dinosaurs existed, the Earth was closer the Sun or the Moon was closer to the Earth. This would have created an opposed gravity that would have been ideally suited for the dinosaurs. There are many hypotheses regarding Gravity Theory and one suggests that the gravity on Earth on one side was weaker than the other and the dinosaurs only lived on the side that had weak gravity.
Dinosaur extinction can be explained actually quite well by the Gravity Theory, which states that gravitational force on Earth was less than what it is today. However, all of a sudden, around 65 million years ago, the Earth's gravity increased and the dinosaurs were suddenly too heavy. They could not adapt to the changes in the gravity and hence, they died and perished. This increase in gravity did not affect the other reptiles, mammals and birds because they were able to survive owing to their small size in comparison to the dinosaurs. In addition, the reptiles appeared on Earth long before the dinosaurs and during that time, the gravitational force was similar to what it is today.
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There are many theories available that try to explain how dinosaurs became extinct. One such theory that tries to explain dinosaur extinction is the Theory of Disease that was made extremely popular by Dr Robert T Bakker through his book The Dinosaur Heresies. 