We all know that rock is brittle stuff when we see it at room temperature. Here's where I appeal to someone who actually knows if magma can be sticky or rubbery, like a rubber band, at the temperatures found in the core. Maybe a glassblower could speak for the quartz portions, anyway...
If the center of the earth is like a rod, up and down through the middle, and the magma mix is like a collection of rubber bands connected at one end to this rod, with the other end wrapped around a weight or ballbearing or whatever....
Rubber bands only stretch so far, absorbing angular momentum in this case, until they're not elastic anymore. At that point, they stop stretching.
Then perhaps we just witnessed the beginning of the end of the Great Winding Up. This is where the more elastic, stickier, and hottest parts of the core are stretched as far as there going to, in preparation for the Great Snapping Back. So watch for the future need to shave seconds off the day. Or maybe tell your grandkids to tell their grandkids to tell their grandkids.
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We all know that rock is brittle stuff when we see it at room temperature. Here's where I appeal to someone who actually knows if magma can be sticky or rubbery, like a rubber band, at the temperatures found in the core. Maybe a glassblower could speak for the quartz portions, anyway...
If the center of the earth is like a rod, up and down through the middle, and the magma mix is like a collection of rubber bands connected at one end to this rod, with the other end wrapped around a weight or ballbearing or whatever....
Rubber bands only stretch so far, absorbing angular momentum in this case, until they're not elastic anymore. At that point, they stop stretching.
Then perhaps we just witnessed the beginning of the end of the Great Winding Up. This is where the more elastic, stickier, and hottest parts of the core are stretched as far as there going to, in preparation for the Great Snapping Back. So watch for the future need to shave seconds off the day. Or maybe tell your grandkids to tell their grandkids to tell their grandkids.
Sound like fun?