Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test

SF Chronicle ^ | Monday, November 29, 2004 | Keay Davidson

[SunkenCiv]

Researchers are preparing to test the highly controversial theory of a San Diego scientist, J. Marvin Herndon, who thinks a huge, natural nuclear reactor or "georeactor" -- a vast deposit of uranium several miles wide -- exists at Earth's core, thousands of miles beneath our feet... [I]t might help to explain otherwise puzzling phenomena of planetary science, such as fluctuations in the intensity of Earth's magnetic field... If Herndon's theoretical nuclear reactor really exists, then it should be gushing out antineutrinos that would fly through the roughly 4,000 miles of solid rock and emerge at the Earth's surface.

[Fred Nerks]

See, I told you so...

[SunkenCiv]

:')

Primitive Crystal Light!
by Bob Gillis
http://www.primitiveways.com/crystal-light.html

[aruanan]

Oil is a lubricant produced by barely understood geological forces. What we suck out of the ground is the excess from the process.

The process is not a mystery, it's just not well-tolerated by the fossil fuel crowd.

[Fred Nerks]

just found this...

http://www.nealadams.com/EarthProject/geologists.html

[SunkenCiv]

Nice!

[SunkenCiv]

:')

Creating Elements after BB: Where did the Supernova's Go?(Vanity)
NA | 2007/02/15 | Robert A. Cook
Posted on 02/15/2007 8:11:32 PM EST by Robert A. Cook, PE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785665/posts

[SunkenCiv]

update to message 12:

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[r9etb]

We put detectors in flooded mines to detect particles from the sun. The water provided shielding. Shielding from radiation from inside instead of outside?

The water wasn't shielding. It's part of the detector. As the neutrinos interact with water molecules, they release Cherenkov Radiation. The detectors look for the tell-tale flash of blue or UV light.

If this theory was true, there'd be all sorts of detections. I don't believe there are, though.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The theory is fairly straightforward: Scintillation detector are very, very sensitive - and *\(unshielded) show light flashes for almost every high-energy particle that passes through the detector.

By going deep under many thousands of feet of (non-radioactive) rock, the cosmic rays and background gamma ray are removed from the incoming signal. Neutrinos are also removed, but they don't react very strongly (if at all) with the typical nucleus of most rock, so almost all neutrinos get to the detector and some (not all!) will react.

The physicists running and designing these underground experiment take both into account: how many background rays WILL get through, and how many target rays (particles) DO NOT get through, factoring how many of each kind they expect to react while these particles are passing through.

Problem is, in the past, numbers they find have not been what they expect - so the search continues.

[Robert A Cook PE]

you have to 'howl with the wolves' or you don't survive.

That's true, because now you are bucking so many vested interests when you propose something opposite the entrenched establishment. Einstein would never had made it in the current environment.

Almost, but take the exactly opposite point of view: Einstein DID face incredible "scientific" opposition from the German National Socialist university environment and the socialist professors who opposed his theories BECAUSE he was a Jew, and the German political establishment refused to acknowledge that a Jew could advance science.

However, Einstein classically pointed out that while many thousand could write about him decrying his theories, and many thousand could hate him and prevent him from being published, but it would only take ONE to prove him wrong!

[Robert A Cook PE]

We put detectors in flooded mines to detect particles from the sun. The water provided shielding. Shielding from radiation from inside instead of outside?

But think about - and I DON'T hold to many of his theories:
The deepest shaft we go is only a few thousand feet "down: = shielding the detectors from external (cosmic rays) radiation is proved - if only by the increased background radiation the higher you go in the atmosphere. People in the airplanes most of the day get more radiation than people in high altitudes, people in high altitudes get more radiation than people in lower elevations, people in nuclear-power ships on the bridge get more radiation than people shielded below by the steel and reactor shielding, people in engine room of surface ships get more radiation than people in submarines who are behind the same shielding, etc.

The distance from the earth's center to the deepest detector is measured by thousands of miles of shielding rock, not thousands of feet.

[SunkenCiv]

:') I should have pointed out that this was a bump to an old topic. Sorry.

[SunkenCiv]

The King Of The Planets And An Emperor Star Plus The Farthest Full Moon Of The Year
by Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer
Episode # 07-13 / 1529th Show
Monday 3/26/2007 through Sunday 4/01/2007

Question. If our Earth is 8,000 miles wide how many Earths could we line up side by side across Jupiter's middle? Simple math, answer: we could line up 11 Earths side by side across Jupiter's middle. But if I asked you how many Earths could we fit inside Jupiter well that might take a little bit longer to figure out because most people forget how to do volumes after they've been out of school a few years. The simple answer is: we could fit 1331 Earths inside Jupiter! So it is indeed huge.

[I think Jupiter is only 318 times more massive though]

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.nuclearplanet.com/Teachers.htm

Teaching Earth Dynamics: What’s Wrong with Plate Tectonics Theory?

Textbooks frequently extol plate tectonics theory without questioning what might be wrong with the theory or without discussing a competitive theory. How can students be taught to challenge popular ideas when they are only presented a one-sided view? In a just a few pages, I describe more than a century of geodynamic ideas. I review what is wrong with plate tectonics theory and with Earth expansion theory, and describe my new Whole-Earth Decompression Dynamics Theory, which unifies the two previous, dominant theories in a self-consistent manner. Along the way, I disclose details of what real science is all about, details all too often absent in textbooks and classroom discussions. In these few pages, I only touch on highlights and just part the curtain a bit so that teachers might glimpse ways to bring to their students some of the richness and excitement of discovery that becomes evident when one begins to question prevailing, currently popular perceptions of our world.

(for full article, click here) http://www.nuclearplanet.com/510090.pdf

[Fred Nerks]

downloaded and saved to read later, thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

The Sun: A Great Ball of Iron?
Science Daily
Posted on 07/18/2002 2:33:32 AM EDT by per loin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/718067/posts

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1294934/posts?page=11#11
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1570230/posts?page=27#27

[SunkenCiv]

That image and link in 57 has disappeared. I didn’t even find it on the drive (I have a 2005 backup version of the drive available to me right now, the iMac died this summer after over 8 years of nearly continuous operation). Here’s a PDF of the article, which popped up at the top of the search, be sure to save it on your own drive if you happen to visit.

http://webusers.astro.umn.edu/~larry/CLASS/GLASSDARKLY/Glatzaier-SciAmerican.pdf

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred:

http://www.understandearth.com/

[SunkenCiv]

http://nuclearplanet.com/
http://understandearth.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=j%20marvin%20herndon&spell=1&ie=UTF-8
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1425168310/sunkencivilizati

[SunkenCiv]

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