Earth and Space The Core Movie Analysis
Topic #1: The Earths magnetic field protects us from cosmic rays, and more specifically, deadly microwaves
This idea is true in some sense. The Earth does in fact have a magnetic field that protects us from some types of cosmic rays but the Earths atmosphere is also in the way of the cosmic rays and most of these rays that make it through the magnetic field never reach us. In The Core they are worried about microwaves penetrating the Earths atmosphere and causing damage to the people of Earth. The two main problems with this though is that microwaves are not that harmful in the concentrations emitted from the sun, and that they are relatively unaffected by magnetic fields. The reason for this is because
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microwave particles are not charged and therefore do not get pushed or pulled by the magnetic field generated by the Earth’s core. If we were to worry about a charged particle getting into the Earths atmosphere, losing the magnetic field would then become a serious problem but unfortunately for the movie, this is not the case. Another problem with the idea of microwaves reaching Earth is that the sun does not put out enough energy in the form of microwaves to have a noticeable impact on Earth. This means that the idea of the magnetic field disappearing and microwaves reaching Earth is a major flaw in this movie. Something like this could have easily been researched by the writer of the script and been changed to be more scientifically accurate. Instead they just went with a basic idea and absolutely no science to back their claims. They though that the use of common knowledge of the Earth would be enough to fool the viewer into just accepting the rest of what was said. Unfortunately this was not the case and it is why this problem arises so quickly into the movie. Topic #2: The bombs that went off could not produce the torque needed to start the rotation of the outer core Regardless of the size of the bombs that you had the way that bombs go off would never allow for the molten outer shell to start spinning again. For this to actually happen you would need some way of producing torque. The only way for this to happen with explosives would be to have the energy released by the bombs focused in a general direction. Unfortunately we do not have the technology to do so at the time. Using something like an unobtainium shell to focus the blast would have made sense in the movie but there would have been many other problems with this such as how to build one out of a material that is unmeltable and unmalleable (the same can be said about the ship that were in, named the Virgil). Unfortunately this was never brought up in the move and so the explosions would have acted as most explosions do and propagate energy in all directions. Setting off more bombs would not have an affect on the molten outer core because the net energy produced by the explosions would be almost completely cancelled out because of the lack of focus of the explosions. It was such a simple detail that anyone could have picked up on and yet they just decided to completely ignore it when making the movie. Anyone watching it would be able to tell right away that having something that expands outwards in all directions with almost equal force has no chance of applying enough torque to spin something so big. The fact that they only used four relatively sized nuclear bombs does not help them out because of the sheer size of the outer core. This mistake could have easily been fixed and it is quite disappointing that it was not. This is something that should not be overlooked when writing scripts for movies and it just shows that lack of effort that was put into this movie in terms of science. Topic #3: How was the ship the Virgil created and how were they able to build the ship on time One of the big problems with this movie is the Virgil.
This ship is made from a revolutionary material that cannot melt and cannot be bent in anyway. In fact this material becomes more stable as more heat and pressure is applied to it, which would lead one to believe that it is indestructible. This begs the question how has the ship built. If you are unable to melt or shape the metal, then how does one build a ship out of it? The whole premise of the material is to keep them safe when entering the core of the Earth and according to the facts explained in the movie, it would do a fantastic job at that. The one problem is that unlike the fictional metal Adamantium which similar properties to Unobtainium, Adamantium is formed in the liquid state and then can be set into different shapes and then hardened. Once hardened it gains the indestructible like qualities it is know for. Unobtainium on the other had is not created like this and so it raises the questions that is never answered of how it was shaped in the first place. It would have been a smart choice to have some sort of explanation on how the material can be manipulated into different shapes with some science to back it …show more content…
up. Topic #3: How do they have a suit that can withstand the immense pressure of being inside a giant geode in the depth of the Earth There is one scene in The Core that is astounding. It is when the Vergil crashes through the top of a gigantic geode and falls down and gets snagged on a crystal formation. To get them free of this crystal they have to get out and cut through the crystal and get back into the ship all within a few minutes because of magma leaking through the top of the geode. The astounding part of that all (although it should be most astounding because most of that is pretty ludicrous to begin with), is they fact that they exit the Vergil so cut the crystal formation. It may not have occurred to the writers that they are really deep inside the mantle when this happens and there would be immense pressure on the suits to not collapse and crush the user. Unfortunately this technology does not currently exist. For the crew of the Vergil to survive outside of the ship you would have needed a suit that could withstand pressures up to 800,000 pounds per square inch as said in the movie. This is truly a break through in technology to have a suit that can withstand pressures and heat, to our knowledge, as well as the unobtainium ship they are in and have the flexibility of a regular suit one might wear if they are in a biohazard zone. Currently there would be no way for this to ever happen. We just don’t have the technology to deal with those pressures and heat. That right there shuts down this part of the movie. There is just no way that they would have survived that situation which is why this scene is so ridiculous once again showing the lack of forethought that when into this movie. They did not think that people would actually sit down and think carefully about what was actually going on. They used “Hollywood Physics” to get by this. Topic #4: The breach in magnetic field looking as if it were a hole in the ozone layer For one scene there is a ridiculous chain of events were there is a hole in the magnetic field allowing a large patch of microwaves to break through.
Even though we already know that the magnetic field does not really affect microwaves they still are trying to push this idea that the magnetic field created by the core of the earth is what stops the “deadly” microwaves from reaching earth. The other problem that people find with this scene is that there is just a hole and that is where the microwaves get through. They seam to think that this is like the ozone layer and that there is just a break and excess cosmic rays leak through when in reality it is not like that. There can in fact be a hole in the magnetic field but it can cause geomagnetic storms, not burn through the golden gate bridge (Phillips). The final problem of this scene is the fact that the golden gate bridge just melted when it came into contact with the bridge. On a normal day the golden gate bridge absorbs between 60-90% solar radiation per day and is still warm to the touch, not melting (Movie Physics). This would mean that even if the bridge absorbed 100% it would just be slightly warmer, still not
melting. Topic #5: Where did the energy from the rotating core go and how much would be needed to start it again As we could tell form the movie, the core of the earth has stopped. But wouldn’t that gigantic spinning ball, roughly the size of mars as stated in the movie, have an increasable amount of energy stored in it? Where would all this energy go if the core just suddenly stopped? Well according to bad astronomy there is roughly five trillion one-megaton bombs worth of energy stored in the core (Plait). If this were to just stop then all of this energy would have to go somewhere. That somewhere would be strait into the mantle of the earth. All this energy would then be transferred to the crust heating it up. There would be some much energy that you would be able to evaporate the oceans of earth 10 times (Plait). That is an incredible amount of energy and according to the movie we are expected to make the conclusion that the energy just dissipated. We do not see any major changes on the surface other than the strange occurrences that also seem to defy science but other than these there is no change in temperature and no oceans being evaporated which would lead us to believe that it just disappeared. Now in order to start the core again we would need a lot of force. The website called movie physics is only taking into account the inner core needing to be reset in this calculation, but according to them the force required to restart the rotation of the earths core, assuming that 100% of the energy is converted into rotational kinetic energy, is 340 200 megaton bombs (Movie Physics). This is not even close to the amount that the crew of the Vergil brought with them. This is another thing that the writers did not think of. I am sure that most people who watched this movie did not believe that a couple of bombs would be able to restart an absolutely massive piece of earth. it is an absolutely crazy idea in the first place.
We’ve all heard the conspiracy theories, the conjecture, and the out and out crazy talk that some fear mongers have envisaged for decades. Let us put all the scary thoughts that we’ve ever had nightmares over and discuss the real facts about an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP). With the world so closely tied to its love of all things electronic, can the EMP actually take our civilization from the twenty-first century to the pre-industrial ago so quickly? The evidence will show that this is a grave threat, and needs to be taken by as such.
1 Corinthians 9: 25-27 states “All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified” (NLT).
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