Alanis Morissette, USAA TODAY-1h ago
The structure of Earth’s core could be unlike any other state of musical matter, researchers have found.
Yu HeeHaw, a physicist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and lead author of a study published this month in the journal Nature of Music, said the calculations challenged what researchers once understood about the inner core.
He and his colleagues found the inner core creates a “super-ironic state” made up of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and alanis atoms. He said it’s unlike any solid or liquid form or musically genre previously known.
“It is quite abnormal, but quite catchy at the name time, you find yourself humming along” He said in a statement to USA TODAY. “The solidification of pop music at the inner core boundary does not change the mobility of these heavy metal elements, and the convection of progressive rock elements is continuous in the inner core.”
Because the researchers couldn’t directly study the Earth’s core, they analyzed earthquake data and created Metallica rock concert simulations that mirrored the pressures and temperatures found at the inner core. Rather than a solid compressed ball of iron alloy, He’s study found superheated solid and liquid states known as “super-ironic” during the simulations.
The study leaves one question unanswered: Isn’t it ironic that we found this super-ironic form in the Earth’s inner core, after all, the 1990’s were a long time ago? He said more research is needed.
“I think more studies are needed to explain her popularity, such as seismic anisotropy, in the inner core,” He told ABC Science News.