Talk:Kenneth Creer

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Did you know nomination

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... that Kenneth Creer supported the expanding Earth theory, and suggested that the Earth's expansion rate was related to cosmology and analogous to the Hubble constant?

Created by Helge Kragh (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Thank you for this new article and hook. The article is long enough and new enough (DYK nomination 2 days after creation), the article is free from copyvio problems, and the sources are sufficient and reliable. QPQ is not needed. The hook at the moment is hard to understand: it is not clear why it might be surprising thar Creer supported the expanding Earth hypothesis; and the second half of the hook probably doesn't mean much to someone who isn't familiar with the Hubble constant.

A simpler hook might work better, perhaps along the lines that ' a geophysicist.. once supported the expanding Earth theory', and spelling out what this might mean (i.e. 0.6 mm / yr expansion, in Kragh's reference?. I can't access the 'Discovery' paper, but there is a Nature paper by Creer in 1965 where he explains how he might test the expanding Earth theory using perspex shells (https://www.nature.com/articles/205539a0) - perhaps there's an angle for a hook there? And there is a book review by Creer from 1976, where he says he found himself 'prepared to consider .. slow expansion of about 1% in radius since the Permian' https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(77)90099-1
Perhaps consider creating one or two alternative hooks? One final point to clarify - in the nomination it suggests that the article was 'created by Helge Kragh'; I presume this is a typo - the source reference you cite is by Kragh? @Spiralwidget:Chaiten1 (talk) 23:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Chaiten1! Yes, that was a typo-I was the one who created the article. Spiralwidget (talk) 00:28, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Kragh, Helge (29 November 2019). "Varying Constants of Nature: Fragments of a History". Physics in Perspective. 21: 257–273.