who besides me beleives the center of the earth is ice?

Question

tell me why so i can prove isaiah wrong

Answer 1

Isaiah was a religious figure from a pre-scientific age who was not conerned with geology, but with the salvation of the Hebrew people.
Additionally, the earth having a "center" implies that it is not flat, but a sphere.
Where does Isaiah say this? He talks a lot about water, but NEVER mentions "center of the earth" OR "ice".
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/Bible/Isaiah.html

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Answer 2

Pressure melts ice to water. Even at very cold temperature, enough pressure will work. That is how a skate slides on ice: the skater's weight is supported by a very narrow blade so that a lot of "pounds per square inch" are generated at the face of the blade (especially if the skate is well sharpened). This pessure causes melting of a very thin layer which becomes a layer of water between the blade and the ice.

There is LOTS of pressure at the centre of Earth.

Also, there is heat. Some heat comes from the pressure, of course. Some heat comes from radioactive decay of natural radioactive atoms present in the Earth (for example, Uranium). More heat comes from the fact that the heavier atoms (metals) tend to sink while less dense atoms tend to "float" upwards. Because they are denser, the metal atoms give off more energy on the way down than lighter atoms take up on the way up. The energy from the sinking metal atoms comes from the loss of potential (or gravitational) energy.

The pressure will always be high (the weight of the mantle and the crust push down on the core, the core must push back -- rpessure -- otherwise it would collapse).

There are still radioactive atoms and there is still "differentiation" (heavy atoms going down, light ones coming up) so that there must still be lots of heat being generated.

Earth's core therefore must be mostly molten metals surrounded by a mantle of molten rock. The lava from volcanos is from the mantle.

Answer 3

While it certainly is not ice, many people are spuriously claiming the core to be molten metal. Excuse me, but the inner core is best theorized to be SOLID iron. It is the outer core and mantle where you will find molten metals and rock. In fact, it is the solid spinning core which we think creates the Earth's magnetic field.

And to those who say we can't prove these things...that's baloney. Perhaps we can't "definitively" prove that the core is solid iron, but seismic and gravity/mass/density studies of the Earth can certainly prove that it is not ice. We have a pretty good idea of the structure down there, even if some of the dynamics are not fully understood.

Answer 4

I pretty much agree with the above answers. The center of the earth is possibly and probably made up of molten rock.

I think somewhere I heard that there was a hard nickel core in the center of the earth, but of course, no one really knows for sure yet. Only time and science will tell.

It's even possible that, since coal turns into diamonds when compressed and subjected to enormous amounts of heat, that the center consists of diamond, or something even stronger than that. Who knows.

Answer 5

If it was ice, then how come Lava comes out of Volcanoes.

Also the centre of the Earth must be molten, as how would techtonic plates moves around (i.e. those huge things called continents that occasionally bump into one another.)

One reason why the Earth has a molten 'mantle' is due to Fission - the Energy released during fission keeps the temperature high enough.

By the way, the Earth actually has an Iron core, with the molten stuff on top.

Answer 6

A. there is zero scientific evidence that the center is ice and plenty that it is molten metal.
B. That's like proving that an ancient Greek was wrong about the earth orbiting the sun. It's too easy.

Answer 7

Wow dude I am pretty sure it isn't ice. This wouldn't make a lot of sense. Even if it WAS cold, that kind of pressure would have the ice compressed into a liquid (water is one of the few substances that melts rather than freezes when compressed).

The center of the Earth is solid. We know this because of the way seismic waves travel through the earth during earthquakes. Solids reflect one seismic wave and allow the other through, whereas liquids allow both through.

Answer 8

Well, since there is magma underground, its kinda safe to assume there is no ice. There may be a solid metallic core, but its still not certain. And the reason wht a hot core does not mean we burn is simply that this heat is caused by the pressure, and less pressure means less heat. And well, the magma flows are also far underground, like about 20 kilometers if not more.

Answer 9

Sorry, you are on the wrong track. The centre core of the earth is made up of molten rocks. So, it is unimaginable for there to be ice at the centre of our earth.

Answer 10

This is one subject where Science and the Bible agree. The center of the earth is fire-hot!