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Did Earth's Twin Cores Spark Plate Tectonics?
Discovery News ^
| 06 Jan 2009
| Michael Reilly
Posted on 01/07/2009 9:20:26 AM PST by BGHater
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posted on
01/07/2009 9:20:27 AM PST
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BGHater
To: BGHater
Earth - With Dual Core Technology
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posted on
01/07/2009 9:24:53 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: BGHater
But most scientists believe the incredible pressure at the center of the planet would've long since pushed the two cores into each other. The pressure at the center of the earth is just about zero. The geologists are smoking dope again.
ML/NJ
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posted on
01/07/2009 9:26:52 AM PST
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ml/nj
To: ml/nj
The pressure at the center of the earth is just about zero. The geologists are smoking dope again.
I thought the pressure at the center of the earth is around a million times atmospheric. Are you confusing pressure with gravity?
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posted on
01/07/2009 9:33:47 AM PST
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ZX12R
To: ml/nj
The geologists are smoking dope again. Did they ever stop? Booze and dope are staples for Geologists, and I challenge any Geologist who has done a lot of fieldwork to claim otherwise.
To: BGHater
and help explain why the planet remains hotter today than it should be, given its sizeSilly scientists, everybody knows that's because of man-made global warming! AlGore told us so. The science is settled. Shut up.
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posted on
01/07/2009 9:38:23 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
To: ml/nj
The pressure at the center of the earth is just about zero.
The gravity at the center of the earth will be just about zero (since the mass of the earth is approximately equally distributed in every direction. However, the pressure (from downforward in all direction from above) will be quite strong.
To: ZX12R
I thought the pressure at the center of the earth is around a million times atmospheric. Are you confusing pressure with gravity? I'm not confusing anything. Pressure is force (applied over some area). Where do you think the force comes from, PV=nrT?
ML/NJ
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posted on
01/07/2009 9:47:20 AM PST
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ml/nj
To: NonValueAdded
This guy obviously is not part of the consensus!! s/
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posted on
01/07/2009 9:49:24 AM PST
by
Iron head mike
(I only watch porn because I like the music)
To: BGHater
Haluk Cetin and Fugen Ozkirim of Murray State UniversityGo Racers!
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posted on
01/07/2009 9:55:56 AM PST
by
Eagle Eye
(Libs- If you don't have to play the rules then neither do we...THINK ABOUT IT!)
To: ml/nj
"Results of the study of seismic wave propagation in the form of density distribution yielded a hypothetical pressure distribution model of the earth's interior. At the centre, the pressure is about 380 GPa (380,000,000,000 pascal)."
According to my calculations, that's about 55,100,000 PSI.
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posted on
01/07/2009 10:02:29 AM PST
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ZX12R
To: ml/nj
Are you a hollow Earth guy?
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posted on
01/07/2009 10:05:12 AM PST
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DManA
To: ml/nj
I thought that ‘PV=nrT’ is for gases.
To: DManA
Are you a hollow Earth guy? No. But I do have science degrees in other fields. I've been asked a couple of times by geology professors (I like to sit in on geology classes.) to write a paper about this when I've discussed it with them, but I really don't know much about writing such papers and haven't done so,
ML/NJ
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posted on
01/07/2009 10:14:17 AM PST
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ml/nj
To: chopperman
I thought that PV=nrT is for gases. It is. So maybe that's not the imagined source of the imagined pressure?
ML/NJ
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posted on
01/07/2009 10:16:41 AM PST
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ml/nj
To: ml/nj
Could you explain your theory please?
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01/07/2009 10:20:42 AM PST
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DManA
To: ml/nj
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posted on
01/07/2009 10:24:56 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: DManA
If you had a hollow earth, would gravity pull you towards the center of the sphere? Yes. I believe gravity would be highest at the center, so anything other than a singularity would feel tremendous gravitational pressure at the center.
So the question is would that pressure be any different in a non hollow earth? I don’t think so. Or maybe I am wrong? Would the center be an “anti” gravity peak effectively repulsive? Are objects attracted to the center of mass even if the center of mass is not in the mass?
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posted on
01/07/2009 10:26:07 AM PST
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LeGrande
To: BGHater
I thought the force of the hypothesized collision basically liquidated the cores of both bodies allowing everything that didn’t become the moon to meld into the new Earth.
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01/07/2009 10:34:23 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: LeGrande
At every point in the sphere the force vector due to gravity is the sum of all force vectors acting on it. At the center are all the vectors add up to 0. Is this correct?
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01/07/2009 10:46:27 AM PST
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DManA
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