• Question: can you go to the core of the earth?

    Asked by rumaysa123 to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      No.

      There are several problems.

      1) The heat is intense. It is about 5500 degrees celsius.

      2) The mantle (the layer between the core and the crust) is liquid. That would be going through lava!

      3) The pressure at the core is HUGE. It is over 3 million times the pressure of the earth’s atmosphere.

      There is no way that anything that we are currently capable of building can survive these conditions.

    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Looks like it wouldn’t be a very nice trip!

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      No I don’t think you can 🙁

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I think this is a no! The huge temperatures and pressure would make it impossible for a human to go to the core.

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