107. The molten magnetic core of the Earth is just speculation

“Ring magnets of the kind found in loudspeakers have a central North pole with the opposite “South” pole actually being all points along the outer circumference. This perfectly demonstrates the magnetism of our flat Earth, whereas the alleged source of magnetism in the ball-Earth model is emitted from a hypothetical molten magnetic core in the center of the ball which they claim conveniently causes both poles to constantly move thus evading independent verification at their two “ceremonial poles.” In reality the deepest drilling operation in history, the Russian Kola Ultradeep, managed to get only 8 miles down, so the entire ball-Earth model taught in schools showing a crust, outer-mantle, inner-mantle, outer-core and inner-core layers are all purely speculation as we have never penetrated through beyond the crust.”

 And your point is?  So Dubay is stating that he does not believe in molten core.  Why he thinks that this "proves" anything is beyond me.  If the Earth's core wasn't molten it could still be a rotating sphere.

However, although it is pointless, let us deal with the irrelevant points made.

“Ring magnets of the kind found in loudspeakers have a central North pole with the opposite “South”

While it is possible to create magnets as described by Dubay, the disk magnets in speakers do not have a central north pole and a south pole circumference.  If they did the speaker wouldn’t work.  http://www.explainthatstuff.com/loudspeakers.html

So having noted that Eric Dubay understands very little, let us move on.

"This perfectly demonstrates the magnetism of our flat Earth ..."

Well not really.  On a flat Earth the magnetic South Pole would need to be a ring.  However we know that the magnetic South Pole is at a specific location, albeit one that gradually moves.   

"... both poles to constantly move thus evading independent verification ..."

We have known that the magnetic North Pole moves since 1904 when Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the North Pole discovered it had moved since the first expedition of James Ross in 1831.  Regular measurements are now made to keep track, so their position has been repeatedly verified.

Flat earthers have no explanation for the moving magnetic Poles, which I guess is why Dubay feels the need to throw some doubt in its direction.

"... the entire ball-Earth model taught in schools showing a crust, outer-mantle, inner-mantle, outer-core and inner-core layers are all purely speculation ..."

Obviously it isn’t possible to travel to the centre of the earth to check out its properties, so yes, you can say that our speculations about the core of the earth are hypothetical.  But so what?. That doesn’t disprove the Earth is a sphere and it certainly doesn’t prove the Earth is flat.

However scientists do better than the “making stuff up” approach of flat Earthers.  They investigate, observe, experiment and model, and most importantly they use their models to make predictions that they then check agree with observations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150814-what-is-at-the-centre-of-earth



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