Editing Neal Adams (section)

==Advocacy of expanding Earth hypothesis==
Adams believed the [[Expanding Earth|Earth is growing]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/nealadamsdotcom |title=Neal Adams Growing Earth |website=YouTube |access-date=January 30, 2013}} "Neal Adams Growing Earth"</ref> through a process called pair production.<ref>"Neal Adams – Science: Part 07 – Proton Created Before Your Eyes!"{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_jRcZx6LCA  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/f_jRcZx6LCA| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Neal Adams – Science: Part 07 – Proton Created Before Your Eyes! |website=YouTube|access-date=January 30, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Adams held the work of Australian geologist [[Samuel Warren Carey]] in high esteem, but considered the term "Expanding Earth" a misnomer.<ref>{{cite magazine|last= O'Brien|first= Jeffrey M.|title= Master of the Universe|magazine= [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|volume= 9|issue= 3|date= March 2001|location= San Francisco, California|url= https://www.wired.com/2001/03/adams/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090728181546/http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/9.03/adams.html|archive-date= July 28, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.theskepticsguide.org/skepticsguide/podcastinfo.asp?pid=51 |title=''The Skeptics Guide'' podcast: Episode 51, July 12, 2006|publisher=Theskepticsguide.org|date= July 12, 2006|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080924185244/http://www.theskepticsguide.org/skepticsguide/podcastinfo.asp?pid=51|archive-date= September 24, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date= June 17, 2010}}</ref> While Carey did advocate an expanding Earth in the mid-20th century, his model was rejected following the development of the theory of [[plate tectonics]].<ref>Fowler (1990), pp. 281 & 320–327; Duff (1993), pp. 609–613; Stanley (1999), pp. 223–226.</ref><ref>{{Citation|doi=10.2138/am.2005.1718|title=Blueschists, eclogites, and decompression assemblages of the Zermatt-Saas ophiolite: High-pressure metamorphism of subducted Tethys lithosphere|year=2005|last1=Bucher|first1=K.|journal=[[American Mineralogist]]|volume=90|issue=5–6|page=821|bibcode=2005AmMin..90..821B|s2cid=129874595}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|doi=10.1038/386266a0 |title=Seismic image of the subducted trailing fragments of the Farallon plate|year=1997|last1=Van Der Lee|first1=Suzan|last2=Nolet|first2=Guust|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=386 |page=266 |issue=6622 |bibcode=1997Natur.386..266V|s2cid=4340130}}</ref> Adams advocated his ideas in a DVD documentary he wrote and produced, clips of which are available on his YouTube channel.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/nealadamsdotcom |title=NealAdamsDotCom |publisher=YouTube |access-date=June 17, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last = Adams| first = Neal| title = New Model of the Universe| publisher = NealAdams.com|url = http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html| access-date = January 14, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111226061438/http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html |url-status=dead|archive-date = December 26, 2011}}</ref> Planet growth animations were created by Neal's daughter Zeea Adams.

Adams appeared on the [[radio show]] ''[[Coast to Coast AM]]'' several times to discuss his claims.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/adams-neal/6690|title=''Coast to Coast with George Noory'': Guests – Neal Adams |publisher= [[Coast to Coast AM]]|date= n.d.|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630172113/http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/adams-neal/6690|archive-date= June 30, 2016|url-status=live|access-date= January 14, 2012}}</ref> He was also interviewed by [[Steven Novella]] on a ''[[Skeptics Guide]]'' podcast in 2006, and afterward continued the debate on Novella's blog.<ref>{{cite web| last = Novella| first = Steven| author-link = Steven Novella| title = Debate With Hollow-Earth Proponent – Neal Adams| publisher = NeuroLogicaBlog| date = December 24, 2007| url = http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/debate-with-hallow-earth-proponent-neal-adams/| access-date = January 14, 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120202101104/http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/debate-with-hallow-earth-proponent-neal-adams/| url-status=live| archive-date = February 2, 2012}}</ref> ''[[Japan Times]]'' columnist Jeff Ogrisseg wrote a three-part feature promoting Adams's ideas,<ref>{{cite news| last = Ogrisseg| first = Jeff | title = Top artist draws growing global conclusions| newspaper = [[Japan Times]]| date = November 22, 2009| url = http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20091122x3.html| access-date = January 14, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120202061651/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20091122x3.html| url-status=dead| archive-date = February 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last = Ogrisseg| first = Jeff| title = Dogmas May Blinker Mainstream Scientific Thinking| newspaper = Japan Times| date = November 22, 2009| url = http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20091122x2.html| access-date = January 14, 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120618030416/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20091122x2.html| url-status=dead| archive-date = June 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last = Ogrisseg| first = Jeff| title = Our Growing Earth?| newspaper = Japan Times| date = November 22, 2009| url = http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20091122x1.html| access-date = January 14, 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121018143241/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20091122x1.html| url-status=dead| archive-date = October 18, 2012}}</ref> which was roundly criticized by Novella for being an example of "outright promotion of [[pseudoscience]] as if it were news."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/11/23/no-growing-earth-but-a-growing-problem-with-science-journalism/|title= No Growing Earth, But a Growing Problem with Science Journalism|first= Steven|last= Novella|date= November 23, 2009|publisher= Skepticblog.org|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111101133619/http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/11/23/no-growing-earth-but-a-growing-problem-with-science-journalism/|archive-date=November 1, 2011 |url-status=live|access-date= February 10, 2013}}</ref> Adams also used the concept as the basis for his ''Batman: Odyssey'' series, in which the planet's expansion has produced a [[Hollow Earth]], the inside of which is inhabited by dinosaurs and [[Neanderthal]] versions of the main characters.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://comicsalliance.com/batman-odyssey-final-recap/|title=Finally: The Complete and Utter Insanity of ''Batman: Odyssey'', Part 6|last1= Hudson|first1= Laura|last2= Wolkin|first2= David|work=ComicsAlliance|date=October 13, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180210152616/http://comicsalliance.com/batman-odyssey-final-recap/|archive-date= February 10, 2018|url-status=live|df= mdy-all|access-date=July 7, 2015|quote=Batman (or as we dubbed him in his shirtless days, Nude Bruce) is forever telling a mysterious Exposition Hostage a long series of a stories that jump forward and backward in time to other stories that seem to have little or no connection to each other, and often involve Adams' deeply held pseudo-scientific belief that the earth is actually hollow and expanding. For the purposes of the comic, the hollow center of the Earth is where Neanderthal Batman lives.}}</ref>