• Question: could the core of the earth ever blow up or implode?

    Asked by element to Daniel, Derek, Ian, Phil, Upul on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by adam4213.
    • Photo: Derek Mann

      Derek Mann answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Really not the person to ask this question, a geophysicist would know the answer. My guess is probably not unless something very strange happened to the planet.

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      Daniel Mietchen answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      I wouldn’t know how.

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      Ian Sillett answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      No! In a word. There is nothing explosive in the Earth’s core and it’s denser than the crust, or space so it will never implode.

      Volcanoes can be explosive but only when the vents are blocked and pressure builds up underneath them. This is in the Earth’s crust though, not the core.

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