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Susanna's avatar

I know that each Christian has their own path to the truth of Christ, but mine has always been Genesis. My trust in God’s creative power began as a child and has carried me through and has always sung in my soul.

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David B. Miller's avatar

Did my discussion of Ozone make it here? In case it got lost, (I have learned to save comments before trying to post them), here it is (again?):

I learned about the Ozone Layer in grade school science classes, I think, but never tied it directly to the loss of Earth’s water. I noticed, early on, that ancient accounts seem to portray an Earth with more water than it has today. Abbreviating my thinking, I thought that the water lost over the past few millennia must have migrated to outer space. I have thought this through a little more, and it seems that the solar wind, which is largely made up of hydrogen ions (protons) both added and swept away the H+ (H2 blasted apart by solar gamma and other radiation) ions, leaving some dynamic equilibrium population. H2O would be broken down into individual atoms and then ions, leaving O+ (O2 blasted apart), hence the Ozone layer. O+ ions are high-energy, and their stochastic motion tends to migrate them from denser to less dense regions, thus farther from Earth. Gravity is of little to no effect, and decreases farther from Earth’s surface, in consonance with density-related stochastic motion. At some point an O ion’s collisions will result in its being beyond effective association with Earth. It is in outer space, “lost” from Earth.

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