Science
Earth’s inner core is only a billion years old…way younger than most of us thought – SYFY WIRE
A billion years is not the unfathomable stretch of time that we humans—who are really around for the blink of the universe’s proverbial eye—in cosmic terms. It isn’t even much for our planet.
A billion years is not the unfathomable stretch of time that we humanswho are really around for the blink of the universes proverbial eyein cosmic terms. It isnt even much for our planet.
Earth is thought to be about 4.6 billion years old. Until now, its core was often estimated to be closer to that age, but recreating the conditions of the inner core in a lab changed all that. The inner core is made of solid iron encompassed by an outer core of liquid iron. A mind-blowing experiment by an inte…
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