#physics **Dinosaurs with Physics** This is a great boring story, that I've done in my blog. It's the dinosaur story with physics. Nothing to do with the influencer story, I'm not even including charts.
You can get a chart of the Earth's temperature for the last 2 billion years. It goes up and down in a sinusoid with a cycle of about 300 million years. Nobody puts the plate tectonics 'Shmoosh Factor' on top of that.
Yes, Virginia, continental shmooshing is in perfect sync with that. When the continents are flung apart, we get cold, when they are together we get heat, and jungles on the poles.
The physics for that is beyond this discussion, but be assured that the same game physics has been operating since the beginning. During the last cycle, the Earth was cold and giant 'mammally' creatures roamed -- warm blooded. Then the big shmoosh of the Mesozoic. Those creatures all cow-tipped with heat stroke because of another physics thing - heat dissipation.
Although the biomass of mammals was as great as ever, only tiny, all attention was on giant dinosaurs. Then the continents did their thing again. The big Arctic air glaciers knocked down the dinosaurs like iguanas falling from trees in a Florida chill. The mammals ate them. Circle of life.
Don't get me started with giant mammals.