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Researchers Compute Their Way to the Centre of the Earth
Us humans live on Planet Earth. The planet is made up of 4 different layers. Those layers include: the curst, the mantle, outer core, and inner core. Not that many people have attempted to even go through the center of the earth; it's a very long pathway. The closest a human has ever gotten to the center of the earth was in the 1980s when a Russian-project in the far north Kola Peninsula reached 12 km into the earth's crust. We haven't gotten that far to the center of the earth.
In a article titled, "Researchers Compute Their Way to the Centre of the Earth" it talks about how researchers have been able to compute their way very slowly day by day into the center of the earth. The following article stated, "Multi-disciplinary research team uses theory and experiment on its journey to understand material and geologic processes in high pressure and temperature conditions.In order to more fully comprehend the complexities of Earth’s interior, humanity has to dig deep—literally. To date, scientists have been able to bore a little over 12 kilometers deep, or about half the average depth of the Earth’s crust. Why would researchers need to peer into deeper depths? Both to better understand how the earth formed and how the interior might have an effect on our life on the surface of the Earth today, such as by the magnitude and reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field. However, experiments investigating materials at conditions deep in the Earth are challenging, meaning that to continue gaining insights into these phenomena, experimentalists must turn to modeling and simulation to support and complement their efforts. To that end, researchers at the University of Cologne’s Institute for Geology and Mineralogy have turned to computing resources at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) to help better comprehend how materials behave in the extreme conditions below the surface of the Earth."
My view on this particular article is that, it's interesting on learning how much technology has improved and progressed over the years. From making something so complex such as, trying to go to the center of the earth, into something simple by, researchers computing their way there. Overall this research is very well-thought out in my opinion, and has a a lot of potential. And maybe if the research does succeed, in what it's supposed to do, it would have done something so incredible in history: reach to the center of the earth.
Link to full article:
http://www.gausscentre.eu/SharedDocs/Meldungen/GAUSSCENTRE/EN/2017/news_23_Prescher_Jahn_feature.html
Us humans live on Planet Earth. The planet is made up of 4 different layers. Those layers include: the curst, the mantle, outer core, and inner core. Not that many people have attempted to even go through the center of the earth; it's a very long pathway. The closest a human has ever gotten to the center of the earth was in the 1980s when a Russian-project in the far north Kola Peninsula reached 12 km into the earth's crust. We haven't gotten that far to the center of the earth.
In a article titled, "Researchers Compute Their Way to the Centre of the Earth" it talks about how researchers have been able to compute their way very slowly day by day into the center of the earth. The following article stated, "Multi-disciplinary research team uses theory and experiment on its journey to understand material and geologic processes in high pressure and temperature conditions.In order to more fully comprehend the complexities of Earth’s interior, humanity has to dig deep—literally. To date, scientists have been able to bore a little over 12 kilometers deep, or about half the average depth of the Earth’s crust. Why would researchers need to peer into deeper depths? Both to better understand how the earth formed and how the interior might have an effect on our life on the surface of the Earth today, such as by the magnitude and reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field. However, experiments investigating materials at conditions deep in the Earth are challenging, meaning that to continue gaining insights into these phenomena, experimentalists must turn to modeling and simulation to support and complement their efforts. To that end, researchers at the University of Cologne’s Institute for Geology and Mineralogy have turned to computing resources at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) to help better comprehend how materials behave in the extreme conditions below the surface of the Earth."
My view on this particular article is that, it's interesting on learning how much technology has improved and progressed over the years. From making something so complex such as, trying to go to the center of the earth, into something simple by, researchers computing their way there. Overall this research is very well-thought out in my opinion, and has a a lot of potential. And maybe if the research does succeed, in what it's supposed to do, it would have done something so incredible in history: reach to the center of the earth.
Link to full article:
http://www.gausscentre.eu/SharedDocs/Meldungen/GAUSSCENTRE/EN/2017/news_23_Prescher_Jahn_feature.html
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