The saltiness of our oceans gives further support to this hypothesis. There is plenty of salt trapped in the crust of our planet. Water coming up from deep below is therefore likely to be salty.
The visible venting of steam from volcanoes is also an indication of water coming up from below, rather from space.
Taken all together, the evidence is strongly supporting the hypothesis that water in the oceans have come from below. That stretching of Earth's crust has released water in direct proportion to Earth's expansion.
This means that there must be plenty of water buried beneath the crust of our planet.
The question then arises to how this water got trapped so deep below the crust, and my first thought on this was that it must have been trapped there from the start. This would only be possible through a rapid and relatively cold creation process. Hence, the idea that our planet was created in the same supernova that created our Sun. Interstellar water was pulled in together with all sorts of other types of matter to create our planet in a flash.
However, there is another mechanism in which our planet would become full of water, and this requires no cold creation process. Our planet could have been created relatively dry, as a hot blob of matter ejected from either our Sun or a gas planet, and still end up with oceans of water beneath its crust.
The water might be the bi-product of nuclear fission.
Most nuclear fission occurring naturally, chip off relatively light atoms from large atoms. Hydrogen is therefore a very common bi-product of nuclear fission. Oxygen too could be produced this way. Water would then be the end product as hydrogen and oxygen combine to produce water molecules.
We know from observing the tails of comets, that comets generate water. Since comets are dry rocky bodies, the water is produced through fission. We have in other words observational evidence in support for the hypothesis that Earth generates water through fission.
However, the water synthesized by comets are rich in deuterium, a tell tale sign that it is produced through fission of heavy atoms. The extra neutron of deuterium has been taken from an element with plenty of neutrons.
Water on Earth has less deuterium than water in the tails of comets. The way Earth synthesizes water is therefore different from the way comets do it. Still, the fact that comets synthesize water in great quantities through nuclear fission indicates that the process is fairly simple. A rock under electrical stress will produce water.
Comets are rocks. Earth is a rock, and our Sun is most likely a rock too. All synthesize hydrogen and oxygen. All produce water.
Earth expansion seen from the south pole |
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