User:Ckploh/sandbox

The other day my youngest grandson asked me how the continents, seas and mountains were formed. I told him that I did not know. Besides I was very busy baking a cake. I had a cake tin that was filled with everything you can think of………flour, fruit, raisins, sugar, butter, nuts and milk etc. Much like all the minerals and rocks etc. that make up our world. I did not mix it very well and put it in the oven. The oven temperature was set rather high and I forgot about it. After several hours I remembered the cake and took it out of the oven. It was one solid liquid mess. I put it on the counter to cool. As it cooled, which seemed to take billions of years, the parts of the cake that were denser caved in and consolidated. Even a bubble that was trapped below the surface rose to the top and burst leaving a circular impression on the surface as if an asteroid had struck there. I did not want to waste all the expensive ingredients so I decided to eat it but it looked so dry. I then added some milk very slowly. My young grandson thought it was very funny. Can you believe it…. the cake took on the same shape as our earth as seen from a satellite apart from the oceans that were white. I then held it in front of my grandson and told him “You see - this is how our earth was formed 5.67 billion years ago. As the cake cooled I noticed that the projections above the surface of the milk were getting smaller and thought that my grandson had added a bit more milk. I then realised that as the cake got cooler and compacted/contracted/consolidated like our planet, the level of the milk appeared to be rising like we assume that the ocean levels are rising due to global warming. Some time later while the cake was still contracting, as all matter does according to the laws of physics, a large crack formed just off the coast of Sumatra. I could not see this crack as it was below the surface of the milk. Obviously some of the milk disappeared into the crack and gave me the impression that the surrounding bits of projections were getting larger because some of the milk was disappearing into this crack. This is much like the witnesses who noticed that the level of the ocean was receding from the shores of Sumatra. When the milk stopped flowing into the crack because it was full, the two walls of milk collided and started a wave. This on a large scale would be called a Tsunami. After a while the milk settled and everything looked the same again. These cracks kept appearing on the visible/exposed surface forming vales and valleys into which some of the milk flowed to look like rivers. I suppose these cracks can be assumed to cause earthquakes. At first I thought that bits of crust were moving over each other to form mountains but this was obviously not the case.