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Basing their theories on evidence found in magnetite grains in Australian bedrock, researchers at Caltech posit that 550 million years ago, continents at the poles scooted toward the equator while equatorial continents shimmied to the poles, all within a mere 15 million years.
It would not be necessary for the mechanic to explain pedantically that, while it was true that the news about the speedometer implied that the car could go faster than previously thought, it did not change the speedometer reading at which the car shimmied.