Reply #16: No.

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Tectonic plates are massive beyond your imagination. Compared to them, our biggest explosives are tiny. You have a better change of bring down Devil's Tower with a firecracker than moving a T-plate with a nuke.

And no to the "corroding the bones" theory, whatever that means. The continents can be compared to pond scum on a pond. Have you ever watched such scum on a pond. Have you noticed as a small current will push one scum island against another, the two crumple together, and a wrinkle lifts up where they meet. Same thing with the T-plates, and the wrinkles are mountains. The crust of the earth floats on a molten core. It isn't supported against anything.