A couple months ago, some of the editors of this blog convened on a small island off the Eastern Coast of the USA. At some point, someone claimed that they heard on NPR that within the next few months, scientists would come out with a conclusion that will totally change everything we know about a particular subject in science. The trouble was, either NPR didn’t say, or our fellow editor couldn’t remember which field of science this revelation would affect.

I guessed it would be time travel, something involving worm holes.

But could it be Earth Science? Neal Adams, a professional animator and big name in the comics world, poses an incredible theory on an alternative idea to Pangea. First, watch the video on this link. If you have a slow browser, you might not want to skip this part…but if you have high speed, dude, watch this video

In case you have slow speed, I’ll reiterate the idea below, using Neal Adams’ illustrations of how the continents spread out the way they did:

This is how our Earth looks now.

We all know that the Eastern edge of the Americas lines up with the Western edge of Africa and Europe…

But what if all the other edges met too?

That would mean that our Earth was much smaller before, and as it grew, the continents spread out…If you’re still not sure about this theory, watch all of the other videos here
And listen to his recent radio interview here

Seeing if I could replicate the process very roughly, I printed out a small map of the Earth’s Continents:

I cut out the land masses, and tried to create a whole Earth, with no Oceans. Here’s what I got:

Not the greatest, but I’m working with paper which, while there is give, there is little room for the little maneuvers that a large land mass would have.

this not only works for Earth (putting the land masses together to form a smaller sphere) but from the videos linked to above, you learn that it also works for our moon, Mars, and other planetary objects.