Earth's Core Made In Miniature

ananyo writes "A 3-meter-tall metal sphere full of molten sodium is about to start work modeling the Earth's core. The gigantic dynamo, which has taken researchers ten years to build, 'will generate a self-sustaining electromagnetic field that can be poked, prodded and coaxed for clues about Earth's dynamo, which is generated by the movement of liquid iron in the outer core.'"

Re:Woohoo!

[Anonymous Coward]

what?

Craving

[Anne_Nonymous]

Suddenly I'm having a craving for a Cadbury Cream Egg.

Inaccurate Model

[Mr Bubble]

This model is inaccurate as it does not provide for the Reptilian space.

Now work can begin...

[Saishuuheiki]

...on our doomsday device to stop the earth's core from spinning.

Small scale tests first before we build the full-size model.

Re:Inaccurate Model

[DrXym]

It's inaccurate because the simulated Earth is not resting on a 4 elephants or a giant space turtle.

Yawn

[Oswald McWeany]

Yawn! Wake me when they have a dual-core earth.

The single-core model is bound to revolve to slowly!

Re:How they know...

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus a lot of times theorists use rediculus...

Wow, and here I am thinking calculus was hard.

Re:How they know...

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine if it was three complex!

Re:Inaccurate Model

[rubycodez]

That model has been disproven. You'll note the model has support system that quite accurately simulates the stiffness, damping and degrees of freedom of Turtles All The Way Down.

Re:How can this produce accurate results?

[u38cg]

Alternatively, you could stop worrying about these things, and enjoy the fact you've built a thirteen tonne sphere of rotating molten sodium. Enjoy yourself, you know?

Re:Woohoo!

[Anonymous Coward]

what?

Re:Woohoo!

[Mindcontrolled]

No highspeed cameras, but here you go - disposal of a couple of 1000 pounds of sodium metal by dumping it into a lake. Old newsreel footage [google.com] from a time when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them....