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has the strength of gravity on earth changed over time?

I have a theory that may work in conjunction with popular belief that dinosaurs were wiped out by meteor impact. Given the size of animal and plant life during the time and to some the seemingly laughable proportions ie huge bodies and small legs arms of some creatures. If gravitational strength was lower those creatures would not need strength in proportion to body mass or wieght.  Plants would/could grow larger taller without the confines of gravity as we know it. Could it also explain the seemingly impossible feats of strenth we debate over regarding placement of objects and the building of structures by our human ancestors. Scientists research and tell us of THE meteor impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Could it be that over a period of time there was more than a couple of impacts that we can no longer find evidence of and that, and by changing the density and mass of the earth we now experience gravity at a higher strength. We know that physically we adapt ie loss of hair due to temperature change, creatures in caves being blind etc.      

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scowie says:

Possibly.  There is an interesting piece here that discusses the gigantism of dinosaurs and suggests that such large animals could only have been possible with weaker gravity: DINOSAURS and the Gravity Problem

There is also a related theory which suggests that the earth has increased in volume [and, most likey, mass] greatly in the last 100 million years: Expanding Earth

There's a youtube video that illustrates this idea here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJfBSc6e7QQ

And here is a site that relates the two theories: http://www.dinox.org/

As for how the earth could gain that much mass, it may have happened as the solar system passed through a dense spiral arm of the Milky Way.  The mechanism is explained here: http://evolutionem.webplus.net/ud60.html

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