Georeactor

[Grayman]

What would we find if we were to dig a hole all the way down to the centre of the Earth? According to high school science books we would discover a liquid iron alloy core and a smaller solid inner core at the center. For ten years, geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon has presented increasingly persuasive evidence that at the very centre of the Earth, within the inner core, there exists a five mile in diameter sphere of uranium which acts as a natural nuclear reactor.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/earth-03k.html

If nothing else, I found this an interesting read.


Will Dr. Herndon change the school text books?

 

[Duxwing]

"Like so many other 'earthshaking' new ideas in science it has sadly been largely ignored to date."

This statement, along with the article's alleged explanation of Dark Matter, suggests pseudoscience.

-Duxwing

 

[Pyropyro]

My openmindedness basically shut down when they mentioned the 2003 film The Core.

 

[Cognisant]

To test this theory we should build a particle accelerator and aim it straight down.

 

[Grayman]

My openmindedness basically shut down when they mentioned the 2003 film The Core.

You have to seperate what Herndon actually was saying from the media fluff that is always added to science by journalists to attract readers.

 

[Pyropyro]

You have to seperate what Herndon actually was saying from the media fluff that is always added to science by journalists to attract readers.

I'm not talking about the media. The Core is to Geology as Armageddon is to Astrophysics. The fact that he called The Core (or him at the red carpet premiere) as a boost to science makes me doubt his credibility.

I think he should conduct tests for his hypothesis. He could subject a ball of iron-nickel alloy (which is currently believed as the core's material) and a ball of uranium (his georeactor) to intense pressure and temperatures. He should then study which of the balls would behave in the same way that the real core does.

 

[Cognisant]

He would need some pretty big balls to conduct that experiment.

 

[Pyropyro]

He would need some pretty big balls to conduct that experiment.

Come to think of it asking for the uranium would be pretty awkward:
"No, no! For the last time I'm using uranium to test my hypothesis not for constructing a doomsday device!"

 

[Cognisant]

I think there's a unwritten rule that if you're not using uranium to make a bomb nobody will take you seriously enough to actually give it to you.

 

[Grayman]

He would need some pretty big balls to conduct that experiment.

It seems I am a walking experiment then.

 

[Grayman]

I'm not talking about the media. The Core is to Geology as Armageddon is to Astrophysics. The fact that he called The Core (or him at the red carpet premiere) as a boost to science makes me doubt his credibility.

I think he should conduct tests for his hypothesis. He could subject a ball of iron-nickel alloy (which is currently believed as the core's material) and a ball of uranium (his georeactor) to intense pressure and temperatures. He should then study which of the balls would behave in the same way that the real core does.

It isn't that his theory is credible it is that it may be more credible than the older theories. At least he put more thoughtninto it.

 

[Variform]

"Like so many other 'earthshaking' new ideas in science it has sadly been largely ignored to date."

This statement, along with the article's alleged explanation of Dark Matter, suggests pseudoscience.

-Duxwing

Because omg, let's NOT learn from the mistakes of the past. Darwin was ridiculed. The guy who thought up continental drift, well, made it big, Alfred Wegener was ridiculed. Then a woman named Marie Tharp was never taken seriously yet she was right about her mapping of the ocean floor suggesting that continents drifting apart at these seams.

It is amazing we believe in DNA because Crick saw it during an LSD trip.

 

[Base groove]

I think there's a unwritten rule that if you're not using uranium to make a bomb nobody will take you seriously enough to actually give it to you.

Now take your weapons of mass destruction AND GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE

 

[Grayman]

Year 2004

http://discovermagazine.com/2004/jul/whats-cooking-at-center-of-earth

Researchers at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and the Russian Research Center of the Kurchatov Institute have presented plans for a 1,000-ton detector at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory beneath the Caucasus Mountains. The scientists say their experiment could confirm the existence of the georeactor within a few years.

Year 2015

Substantial evidence of Herndon's theory found.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33787562


Geo-Neutrinos are coming from the earth and provide evidence of a nuclear fission plant in the earth's core.

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