Tom Said
As far as I can see, the theory requires billions of tons of matter to somehow appear in the center of the Earth for no particular reason.
You seem to assume that the only way the Earth could become larger in size is by increase of its mass. I am not a geophysicist but my assumption is that the Earth could increase in size if there was a decrease in density of the core or even the mantle.
How could such a decrease in density occur, is of course the question that would need to be answered.
My idea is that the Earth's interior is not an absolute solid but contains millions of pockets of gas of various sizes and under various pressures. The idea being that; if the density of the atmosphere decreases due to the fact that some of the molecules escape into space over millions of years, then the internal gas pockets would experience less compressing pressure and would expand and push the surrounding mass further away, creating a situation of less mass per cubic area, or lower density, resulting in a larger Earth.
Just an idea, I have no numbers to prove or disprove the idea.
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Johannes
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