Marvin Herndon, an independent geophysicist based in San Diego, previously put forward the controversial hypothesis that uranium, the heaviest naturally occurring element, has sunk to the Earth's core and formed a "georeactor" several kilometres across. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Marvin Herndon, an independent geophysicist based in San Diego, previously put forward the controversial hypothesis that uranium, the heaviest naturally occurring element, has sunk to the Earth's core and formed a "georeactor" several kilometres across (see ❋ Maggie McKee (2010)
Marvin Herndon proposed the georeactor theory in about 1993 Feasibility of a nuclear fission reactor at the center of the Earth as the energy source for the geomagnetic field. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The researchers suggest the hypothesis explains the identical isotopic composition of light and heavy elements, and further propose it could be tested, since the explosion would leave evidence such as xenon-136 and helium-3, which would have been produced in abundance in the georeactor. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Meijer and Westrenem fail to realise that such a georeactor would melt itself down to the centre," said Herndon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Moon formed after the explosion of a runaway nuclear georeactor in the Earth's mantle, according to a new theory of lunar formation ❋ Unknown (2010)
If the georeactor hypothesis is right, Gott questions why Venus did not form a moon in the same process, since Venus boasts a similar mass and composition to the Earth. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They also say that there ought to be telltale evidence that such an explosion took place, particularly in the lunar abundance of helium-3 and xenon -136, which would both have been produced in great quantities in a natural georeactor. ❋ Unknown (2010)
After it became supercritical the Earth basically became a natural nuclear georeactor that exploded and ejected into orbit the lunar-sized blob that became the Moon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Gott adds that if indeed the georeactor hypothesis was right, then Venus, which is similar in mass and composition to Earth, should have formed its own moon in a similar process-but it didn't. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Geophysicist Marvin Herndon, who has previously espoused the controversial idea that uranium once sunk to the earth's core and formed a georeactor there, isn't buying into the new theory. ❋ Unknown (2010)
