Why Do Atlantis Exist

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Atlantis is an ancient island that supposedly existed over 9,000 years ago that mysteriously vanished into the sea in just a single day. There have been many theories regarding the existence of Atlantis, some with very convincing arguments but there is still no proof that it actually exists. With tools like Photoshop, it is hard to know if people are telling the truth because they could easily edit the photos they claim they’ve taken. In the course of the last couple of hundred years, researchers, historians, authors and adventurers have talked about whether it at any point existed or not. Not at all like numerous different legends and stories of lost islands, we know precisely when and where the tale of Atlantis initially emerged. The story was first told in two of Plato's discoursed, the "Timaeus" and the "Critias," composed around the time of 330 BC.

One of the theories is that Atlantis was the place Antarctica is presently. The theory discusses how more than 12,000 years’ prior the Earth's outside layer moved dislodging the mainland that moved toward becoming Antarctica from an area much further north than it is today. This more sultry landmass known as Atlantis was home to a …show more content…

The earth’s rotation acts on these unsymmetrically deposited masses, and produces centrifugal momentum that is transmitted to the rigid crust of the earth. The constantly increasing centrifugal momentum produced in this way will, when it has reached a certain point, produce a movement of the earth’s crust over the rest of the earth’s body… This is claiming that if Antarctica shifted south and parts of the Northern hemisphere moved away from the arctic zone this suggests other areas must have shifted into the arctic area and become much more cold. Although the Earth Crust Displacement theory seems improbable it still boosts interesting questions for geology and other

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