Nuclear reactor at the Earths center?
[This follows a phone call from Marvin Herndon on 25 July 2007. He is the author of a theory, arguing for a fission reactor near the center of the Earth. He later sent a link to his new paper “Nuclear Georeactor Generation of Earth’s Geomagnetic Field,” submitted to Current Science and posted in PDF format at http://www.arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0707/0707.2850.pdf The fission regon which he proposes is very compact, with radius around 7 kilometers. He sidestepped the question how it is that most evidence suggests that almost all the heating of the Earth’s interior originates in the Earth’s crust.] Reply Dear Marvin I looked very briefly at your paper. Some comments (1) Loadstone is not ordinary magnetite. See http://www.phy6.org/earthmag/lodeston.htm (2) Gauss did not prove that the Earth’s magnetic field originated at or very near the center. All he showed is that it predominantly originated inside the Earth, not outside it In fact, the Gauss analysis suggests it would be very diffic
