The amount of proposed growth over short human-like periods of time is small enough to be uncertain or obscured in the politics of science.

The amount of growth is so small per year that it is easy for the average person to think that some strange exotic force, neutrinos turning into neutrons, could account for a "slight" change. It's nothing nearly enough to notice on maps or satellite photos over the years. It would be much more slight than that.


However it would also assume that 65,000,000 years ago, the age of dinosaurs, that the earth was 1/2 of its present mass and gravity, and similar things to be said for all stars and celestial bodies, and THIS would overturn much of modern science in many fields, and most scientist would be forced to go back to the drawing board with their most basic presumptions.