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Yeah, the main thing the Pluto data will probably show is that it's cold...Kinda like my doctor telling me, after 8 months of treatment, that I have Chronic Daily Headaches, well, duh. I already knew all that. But there is no why.
Now, for all the solid crust theorists out there, why, how do continents shift? I just read an interesting article about Afar Africa sinking, and forming a new ocean, submerging the horn on Africa. I'm no physicist, not much of a geologist either, but I am a carpenter, and machinist, and I do know that solid things can't move that far. Wood and metal both expand and contract in relation to temperature variances, why would the planet be any different? Does a rock not become more dense when it's cold? To blindly state that all science is more correct than any individual can ever be overlooks a major portion of discovery that has taken place on this world since man first crawled out the caves.
My understanding of a theory is that one comes up with an idea, and some at least consequential proofs. If you prove it beyond any doubt, it is no longer a theory, but fact. Definitions can be dicey, but hey, there is proof a plenty to put forth a theory. Just because it goes against everything one thinks one knows does not make it any less valid, as a theory.
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