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What drives the movement of Earth’s continents?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Slow-Moving Universe

We live a certain amount of time and our life happens at a certain speed, we tend to notice things that happen in seconds or days. But there's lots of things in the universe that happen on much shorter and much faster time scales. Some particles operate at like 10 to the negative 23 seconds and galaxies spin over hundreds of millions of years. So it's easy to overlook these very slow moving but very important processes even though they literally shape our world.

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