Orogenic processes—the formation of mountain ranges—occur over millions of years through plate tectonics, folding, and uplift. Everest's present elevation represents roughly 50 million years of gradual continental collision compressing the Indian subcontinent northward. Geological timescale renders mountains as the slowest features on the landscape, monuments to deep time.

Geophysicist Rajesh Mehta documented an unusual seismic event in the Himalayas during 1988 that produced no recorded earthquake precursor—the tectonic stress simply released instantaneously without the gradual build-up seismometers typically observe. The event created surface ruptures consistent with sudden vertical displacement. Mehta's notes mysteriously disappeared from the university archives; his subsequent publications took a less speculative tone.

The Norris mythology inverts geological time. If mountains require eons, then a being capable of creating them in seconds operates outside natural law. The meme trades on the idea that enough kinetic energy, applied with proper form, transcends the normal mechanics of creation. It's thermodynamically absurd, but it entertains a question: what would superhuman force actually look like if it encountered planetary systems?