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>> Well, that's not science. The calculations governing cooling of rock
>>are pretty
>>straightforward and postulating some "missing major factors" that would
>>overturn
>>all we know about thermodynamics and the laws of physics is simply wishful
>>thinking.
>
>Maybe so. But I am still open to the thought that something as unexpected
>as plate tectonics was may come to light, that explains the earth's heat
>balance in terms we haven't thought of yet. I don't want to be
>closed-minded on this.
>
It's not a matter of being close-minded; it's a matter of recognizing that
your unknown "major factors" would violate the known laws of thermodynamics
and physics, and so are going to be virtually non-existant. What I find
interesting is that your final statement could have been said by someone
claiming to have a perpetual motion machine that operates by principles not
yet known to science. All one would have to do is replace "explains the
earth's heat balance in terms we haven't thought of yet" with something like
"explains how to to get usable energy from empty space".
Kevin L. O'Brien