Abstract

Although from the perspective of modern mainstream Earth science, the Earth is not "growing", in this article, after analyzing some stratum structures, we discovered the fact that the stratum structure has periodic characteristics. Based on the philosophical perspective of analogical reasoning, we compare the periodic stratum structure with tree rings, thereby put forward a new viewpoint. The new viewpoint holds that there is a process of material accumulation on the Earth's surface. The sources of materials are from two aspects. The first is that plants on the Earth absorb sunlight through photosynthesis and convert light energy into substances. These substances gradually deposit, thereby continuously increasing the mass of the Earth. The second is that the Earth receives meteorites and cosmic dust from the universe every day. During its revolution around the Milky Way, the Sun, like the Earth, experiences different "galactic seasons". These "galactic seasons" cause the Earth to deposit materials at different speeds at various times, thus making the stratum structure periodic.

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