Earth’s inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning faster than the planet’s surface and might now be rotating slower than it, research suggested on Monday.
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What little is known about the inner core comes from measuring the tiny differences in seismic waves — created by earthquakes or sometimes nuclear explosions — as they pass through the middle of the Earth. But the researchers said they believed there were physical links between all Earth’s layers, from the inner core to the surface.
“This is a very careful study by excellent scientists putting in a lot of data,” said John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California.Vidale published research last year suggesting that the inner core oscillates far more quickly, swinging around every six years or so.That timeframe is around the point when Monday’s research says the inner core was last in sync with Earth’s rotation — which Vidale called “kind of a coincidence”.
“Therefore, the geophysical community will be divided about this finding and the topic will remain controversial.”
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