Now say you re sorry to this plate the mother said.
Theory plate on floor broken put it back together.
And you are both happy for a time while the plate is letting the glue dry and from all outward appearances the plate looks.
Right now south america and africa are moving away from each other because of new plate material being created at the mid atlantic rift.
The concept of plate tectonics was formulated in the 1960s.
According to the theory earth has a rigid outer layer known as the lithosphere which is typically about 100 km 60 miles thick and overlies a plastic moldable partially molten layer called the asthenosphere the lithosphere is broken up into seven very large continental and ocean sized plates six or seven medium sized regional.
The kintsugi method conveys a philosophy not of replacement but of awe reverence and restoration.
So let s just do the thought experiment.
Glue duct tape anything that will put the pieces back together for the plate.
As expected the plate broke into several pieces.
The plate is grateful.
Continental drift sea floor spreading and plate tectonics plate tectonics is a theory developed in the late 1960s to explain how the outer layers of the earth move and deform.
It was formed by the accretion of several cratons.
The theory has caused a revolution in the way we think about the earth.
While the general western consensus on broken objects is that they have lost their value practitioners and admirers of kintsugi believe that neverending consumerism is not a spiritually rewarding experience.
You feel bad that the plate is still broken so you try to fix it.
Kintsugi is the japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections you can create an even stronger more.
You feel good for helping put the plate back together.
We know that india is jamming into the eurasian plate right now causing the himalayas to get higher and higher.
Since the development of the theory geologists have had to reexamine almost every aspect of.
Now let s glue this plate back together the mother said so they worked together for quite some time and had the plate looking pretty close to its original state although a few cracks and chips were still visible.
The gold filled cracks of a once broken item are a testament to its history.
Gondwana ɡ ɒ n d ˈ w ɑː n ə or gondwanaland was a supercontinent that existed from the neoproterozoic about 550 million years ago until the jurassic about 180 million years ago.