Could my theroy of the earth be possible?

Question

Several Months ago while visting a friend I noticed an old car from the 1950's next to an old barn. It had literally sank in the ground up to the steering wheel, I later found out it had been there since the late 60's. I got to thinking how everything sinks into the ground after time. The earth seems to be a giant sponge. What if our past (humans) had all sunk in the ground, the pyraminds being one of the last relics from a recent past. We know the center of the earth is very hot, it keeps recyling itself. What if 100's of civilations, 1000's of civilations, millions of civilations existed before us, cities, towns, governments yet all eviedence eventually all sank into the earth without a trace. Man's history is destruction upon itself. Atlantis is one such example of destruction (possible). Could we be just another link in a chain that stretches billions of years.

I would like to hear from anyone who could explain why this isn't possible

We are not talking about thousands of years..I'm talking billions of years. To say (as many did) why wouldn't we have records...just look around , we have very little record of ancient times because of the fire of Alexandria...that single act wiped out thousands of years alone

Answer 1

It's just not possible. We know everything disintegrates after a certain time. And if your theory was possible, how could we have fossils preserved? Wouldn't they too sink in and be recycled? How was Pompei preserved, but never sank too? Atlantis I do believe in, but we technically have no proof of them. And it was first a story made up to show what happens when you anger "God"

Answer 2

We have dug back to evidence of dinosaurs before man existed and have met the earliest evidence of man along the way.

Lost civilisations may have been lost in swampy or jungle areas. The Maya people in southern Mexico were a good example of this. (They died out before Europeans went to the Americas yet paintings show they had dentistry skills - pretty advanced)

As for the sponge idea .. some parts of the earth's crust is less resilient than others.
The South Pole's station has had to be rebuilt with the original now meters under the ice (but there, the ice bows in and builds up over it, the camp didn't sink)
Where the continental plates meet, land is rising and falling dramatically at times.
Part of western Australia, however, is considered to be one of the few areas of the world that has never been covered by water throughout history.

Try finding "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. He looks at all the theories that has gotten us to where we are, and tries to write for average people.

Answer 3

Why would there be no records of these things happening mid-sinking eg why would nobody have ever seen and recorded seeing one of these so called civilisations whilst they were half sunk like you saw the car?
I think if this were true, not only would we have stumbled across it during sonar searches, but there would be some sort of record of it being sighted, it wouldn't just disappear all of a sudden one day. Like you have said, the car was there from the 60's, that's 40 odd years.
Keep thinking though, if we don't have people like you trying to figure out what is going on, we never would have discovered space!

Answer 4

I was thinking like you when I was a lot younger. For example, how come we always need to dig to find things the way once were? But as it seems the Earth is bombarded with dust from meteorites on a daily basis so eventually everything is going to be covered after thousands of years. It's not that things are going down through the Earth but rather that a blanket of dust keeps covering them.

Answer 5

Things don't actually sink into the Earth. But,I see You're point..I don't know about millions of civilizations or the time frame.Pretty much what you say is how it happens.

Answer 6

Sure, it's possible. But think of 2 things. Liquifaction and erosion. Plus all the time things are being covered up by dirt. This is why we have archaeologists.

Answer 7

Yes, it could be true. I expect to be seeing you on the Discovery Channel and TV soon.