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ElwoodBlues · M
No, not really.
Continental drift is well understood. The driving mechanism is slow convection currents in the viscous liquid mantle (zone of Earth between crust and core). The convection currents are caused by slow cooling of the interior of the earth. Sea floor spreading, subduction zones, plate collisiions; all the effects of continental drift are widely observed and well understood.
Dark energy is a set of observations of very distant galaxies which seem to contradict existing theory about the expansion of the universe. Sometimes this sort of apparent contradiction is a gateway to a new bigger theory; sometimes it can be understood in terms of existing theory. Time will tell.
Continental drift is well understood. The driving mechanism is slow convection currents in the viscous liquid mantle (zone of Earth between crust and core). The convection currents are caused by slow cooling of the interior of the earth. Sea floor spreading, subduction zones, plate collisiions; all the effects of continental drift are widely observed and well understood.
Dark energy is a set of observations of very distant galaxies which seem to contradict existing theory about the expansion of the universe. Sometimes this sort of apparent contradiction is a gateway to a new bigger theory; sometimes it can be understood in terms of existing theory. Time will tell.
