ThirstyBarbarian
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Here’s an article about how some seismologists believe they have discovered evidence of a previously unknown new type of core at the very center of the earth.
The earth has a crust and a mantle. And inside that, there is the core. And the core itself was already known to have two concentric parts — an outer core which is liquid, and an inner core of solid metal. And now this new discovery seems to indicate that the inner core also has two layers — what they are calling the outermost inner core of solid metal, and inside that, the innermost inner core, which is the same solid metal, but with a different crystalline structure which gives it distinct properties.
So the article talks about the core, outer core, inner core, innermost inner core, and outermost inner core. WTF? That’s not confusing at all!
How about if we just do away with the term mantle, and everything under the crust is just The Core, which has four layers. The mantel can be the outermost outer core, the current liquid outer core can be the innermost outer core, then there’s the outermost inner core, and the innermost inner core.
If there’s anything discovered inside of that, we can call it Bob.
Here’s the article:
https://wapo.st/3kqr9PS
The universities that teach about this stuff are going to have to rewrite their entire core-iculum.
I like the fruit model of the Earth, with the peel, the fruit, the shell, and the nut.
When those seismologists found this evidence buried in their earthquake readings, they were shaken to the core.
The earth has a crust and a mantle. And inside that, there is the core. And the core itself was already known to have two concentric parts — an outer core which is liquid, and an inner core of solid metal. And now this new discovery seems to indicate that the inner core also has two layers — what they are calling the outermost inner core of solid metal, and inside that, the innermost inner core, which is the same solid metal, but with a different crystalline structure which gives it distinct properties.
So the article talks about the core, outer core, inner core, innermost inner core, and outermost inner core. WTF? That’s not confusing at all!
How about if we just do away with the term mantle, and everything under the crust is just The Core, which has four layers. The mantel can be the outermost outer core, the current liquid outer core can be the innermost outer core, then there’s the outermost inner core, and the innermost inner core.
If there’s anything discovered inside of that, we can call it Bob.
Here’s the article:
https://wapo.st/3kqr9PS
The universities that teach about this stuff are going to have to rewrite their entire core-iculum.
I like the fruit model of the Earth, with the peel, the fruit, the shell, and the nut.
When those seismologists found this evidence buried in their earthquake readings, they were shaken to the core.