Scientists Discover Massive “Ocean” Near Earth’s Core

[WorthyBot]

Scientists have discovered a reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans beneath the Earth’s surface, according to an international study. The water has been found between the transition zone of the Earth’s upper and lower mantle. The research team analyzed a rate diamond formed 660 meters below the Earth’s surface using techniques including Raman spectroscopy and FTIR spectrometry, ANI reported.

The study confirmed something that for a long time it was just a theory, namely that ocean water accompanies subducting slabs and thus enters the transition zone. This means that our planet’s water cycle includes the Earth’s interior.

“These mineral transformations greatly hinder the movements of rock in the mantle,” explains Prof. Frank Brenker from the Institute for Geosciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt. For example, mantle plumes — rising columns of hot rock from the deep mantle — sometimes stop directly below the transition zone. The movement of mass in the opposite direction also comes to standstill. Source: NDTV

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[teddyv]

Wow, I read about this years ago. Like at least 5 years ago.

Also the inner/outer mantle boundary is no where near the core.

[one.opinion]

7 hours ago, teddyv said:

Wow, I read about this years ago. Like at least 5 years ago.

Also the inner/outer mantle boundary is no where near the core.

Accuracy in reporting is not exactly a Worthybot hallmark.

[teddyv]

2 hours ago, one.opinion said:

Accuracy in reporting is not exactly a Worthybot hallmark.

I reread it and I think this is just an additional confirmation of the extensive presence of the water-bearing minerals in the mantle.

[Jedi4Yahweh]

13 hours ago, teddyv said:

Wow, I read about this years ago. Like at least 5 years ago.

Also the inner/outer mantle boundary is no where near the core.

No one knows what is below the earth.  The deepest anyone has ever dug is 7.5 miles which is not even breaking the earths crust.  Everything they tell you is just a guess.   However, the bible does say the there are waters below the earth.

Thou shalt not make thee [any] graven image, [or] any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth: - Deu 5:8 KJV

 

Edited October 4, 2022 by Jedi4Yahweh

[teddyv]

1 hour ago, Jedi4Yahweh said:

Know one knows what is below the earth.  The deepest anyone has ever dug is 7.5 miles which is not even breaking the earths crust.  Everything they tell you is just a guess.   However, the bible does say the there are waters below the earth.

Thou shalt not make thee [any] graven image, [or] any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth: - Deu 5:8 KJV

 

I would not call it a guess. There is enough inferential evidence of the physical and chemical properties of the earth's internal structure to be reasonable. Until we build the "Virgil" there will be no direct testing. :)

ANE cosmology has the "waters of the deep" as a common image. I don't think we were to take that there are creatures living in the mantle. The "waters" has always had a strong connection to primordial chaos, hence the home of Leviathan.

[Jedi4Yahweh]

24 minutes ago, teddyv said:

I would not call it a guess. There is enough inferential evidence of the physical and chemical properties of the earth's internal structure to be reasonable. Until we build the "Virgil" there will be no direct testing.

ANE cosmology has the "waters of the deep" as a common image. I don't think we were to take that there are creatures living in the mantle. The "waters" has always had a strong connection to primordial chaos, hence the home of Leviathan.

Without the ability to observe and test, it simply is guessing what is below.  Obviously they don't call it guessing but theory which they want you to think is fact, much like how they theorized evolution and big bang.  I choose to believe God's word over man's theories.   Einstein once said if facts don't match the theory, you change the facts.

[teddyv]

14 minutes ago, Jedi4Yahweh said:

Without the ability to observe and test, it simply is guessing what is below.  Obviously they don't call it guessing but theory which they want you to think is fact, much like how they theorized evolution and big bang.  I choose to believe God's word over man's theories.   Einstein once said if facts don't match the theory, you change the facts.

We can observe and test the subsurface. Seismic work is what has developed the structure of the earth. And a theory is not a guess. That's just equivocating between the popular use and proper use of the word theory.

Also, I cannot confirm that is an Einstein quote. There is a similar one from Spinoza "“If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.” 

I don't believe you when you say you believe God's word of man's theories because there are many theories that are not explicitly detailed in God's word: electromagnetic theory, cell theory, plate tectonic theory, etc., etc. that you probably subscribe to. God's word never details any theories anyway. He left that discovery of the world and universe to us. 

We should be careful no to view the Bible through the lens of modernity.

[Jedi4Yahweh]

2 minutes ago, teddyv said:

We should be careful no to view the Bible through the lens of modernity.

That is exactly my point, when you allow man's theories to override the authority of God's word.  Modern Christendom wants to view God's word through the lens of modern science that most often contradicts his word.  They want to compromise God's word with modern science, "Well God did not really create the world in 6 days but over billions of years through evolution as science tells us."; "God didn't really flood the entire world, science says the flood was a localized event.";  "God didn't really part the Red Sea, science says the Red Sea was crossable on foot and was only knee high";  "God did not really tell Gideon tell the Sun and Moon to stop moving, what he really meant was to tell Gideon to tell the earth to stop spinning." and the list goes on and on.