The Continental Drift
A Rejected Theory
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Have you ever noticed that the continents fit together like giant puzzle pieces? Well, Alfred Wegener noticed this. By 1915, he published a paper on his theory, which he called the Continental Drift. However, many of his fellow scientists rejected his theory. His theory told that the continents were once one to form "Pangaea," a super-continent, millions of years ago. Thirty years later Wegener's death, his theory proved to be correct. This was because of the new idea that was plate tectonics. This new idea proved that continents, among all things, can drift either farther apart or closer. One good example is Hawaii and Japan; scientists predict that in a matter of millenniums, Hawaii could be closer to Japan than to the continental United States!