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Probably the biggest stumbling block was that Wegener got the timescale wrong. He originally thought the continents were moving many times faster than they actually are. Using those figures, the difference in the measured distance between two reference points taken at different times should have been considerable. Instead, the actual difference was small enough to be hidden by measurement error, so attempts to prove his theory actually wound up apparently disproving it.

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