{"id":13315,"date":"2024-06-12T16:49:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13315"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:53:32","slug":"the-big-whack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/12\/the-big-whack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Whack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/12\/science\/earth-theia-collision-plate-tectonics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Lucas Joel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/A-Big-Whack-That-Made-the-Moon-May-Have-Also-750x375.jpg\" alt=\"A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 4.5 billion years ago, many scientists say, Earth had a meetup with Theia, another planetary object the size of Mars.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/01\/science\/moon-earth-collision.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">When the two worlds collided<\/a>&nbsp;in a big whack, the thinking goes, debris shot into space, got locked into the orbit of the young, damaged Earth and led to the formation of our moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the collision with Theia may have done more than that, according to a study published last month in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2023GL106723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Geophysical Research Letters<\/a><em>.<\/em>\u00a0The impact may have given rise to something else: plate tectonics, the engine that drives the motion of Earth\u2019s giant continental and oceanic plates and causes earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the eventual remaking of our planet\u2019s surface about every 200 million years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/12\/science\/earth-theia-collision-plate-tectonics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move by Lucas Joel Some 4.5 billion years ago, many scientists say, Earth had a meetup with Theia, another planetary object the size of Mars.&nbsp;When the two worlds collided&nbsp;in a big whack, the thinking goes, debris shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}