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[Cold-co]

Modest:
You may have found an error. I know I had trouble with the conversions when I was doing them. However, reducing the value would make the lateral pressures smaller than the hydrostatic pressures. That just cannot be true.

Moontanman:
No Coldco, your model cannot be a description of reality. Even at 9K hydrogen is not
metallic, adding hydrogen and helium to get the pressures necessary would raise the temps
though compression quite quickly. for a body of metallic hydrogen to form the size of the
earths core you would need an atmosphere like that of Uranus at least. The only way
possible to get an earth sized core of metallic hydrogen is by accumulating a Uranus
sized body of hydrogen gas. There is no way at any temps such a core could form in an
earth sized body. Not to mention you still haven't explained the mass and or gravitation
pull of the earth.

In Newtons proof that all mass can be considered to be located at an orbs center, he showed that regardless of distribution of mass in the shells the gravitational attraction on the orbs surfice would be equal to considering all mass to be located at its center. Hence moving mass from the core to the mantle doesn't change the outcome.

I guess I will have to inform Dr. Silvera that his diamond anvil results must be thrown out because Moontanman says you cannot get rid if the heat generated by pressure through convection, conduction or radiation. Once the heat is gone, you cannot have pressure create more unless the pressure changes.