Re: Nuclear Planet in DISCOVER

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Boy!!!! Wait 'til the Plugged-Up Peace&Justice Salem people learn about this!

They absolutely will have a cow!!!

Maury          maury@webtexas.com

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Susan L Gawarecki wrote:



> What a teaser!  I'm gonna run right out and buy a copy!

>

> --Susan Gawarecki

>

> DISCOVER Vol. 23 No. 8 (August 2002)

> Table of Contents

>

> Nuclear Planet - Is there a five-mile-wide ball of hellaciously hot

> uranium seething at the center of the Earth?

> By Brad Lemley

>

> What is Earth? Poets say it's a celestial sapphire, a cerulean orb.

> Astronomers say it's a medium-size planet orbiting an average star. Some

> environmentalists say it's Mother. Biologists say it's life's only known

> home. But the most scientifically precise definition may prove to be the

> one that no one suspected.  Earth, says geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon,

> is a gigantic natural nuclear power plant. We live on its thick shield,

> while 4,000 miles below our feet a five-mile-wide ball of uranium burns,

> churns, and reacts, creating the planet's magnetic field as well as the

> heat that powers volcanoes and continental-plate movements. Herndon's

> theory boldly contradicts the view that has dominated geophysics since

> the 1940s: that Earth's inner core is a huge ball of partially

> crystallized iron and nickel, slowly cooling and growing as it

> surrenders heat into a fluid core. Radioactivity, in this model, is just

> a supplementary heat source, with widely dispersed isotopes decaying on

> their own, not concentrated.

>

> Full text of this article can be found in the current issue of Discover

> Magazine.

>

> RELATED WEB SITES:

>

> For more information about J. Marvin Herndon's theory, write to

> mherndon@san.rr.com. And to read about the natural fission reactions

> found in Africa, check out

> www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/centre/waisrc/OKLO/index.shtml.



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