An unexpected discovery at the Earth’s core stuns scientists

amazing discovery which will generate a lot of conversation in the scientific community. This discovery is related to core Our planet, Earthwhich can be described as a reference to the automotive world. He put the car in reverse.

As extravagant as it may sound, a study published in a prestigious scientific journal Nature indicates that The Earth’s inner core is moving away from the surface. That’s how he takes it A country in a report this Wednesday.

This question is not alien to the scientific community, where this possibility has been discussed for many years. In the case of the above-mentioned scientific paper, its authors claim that they already have “the best evidence yet” that the inner core started to slow down around 2010 and at the moment it is slower than the surface of the blue planet.

“Backwards” or when the Earth moves backwards

In this sense, the researchers do not hide their surprise: “When I first saw seismograms hinting at this change, I was stunned.”. This is stated in a statement by John Vidale, a scientist at the University of Southern California and co-author of the work.

“But when we found two dozen more observations pointing to the same pattern, the result was undeniable. The inner core slowed for the first time in decades. Other scientists have recently argued for similar and different models, but our latest research provides the most convincing solution yet“, he noted.

Vidale refers to a concept already known as retreat, a kind of reversal of the rotation of this core. Or in other words, that he is retreating. This was the premise of the research work Chinese team a few months later, They showed that the inner core rotates more slowly than the outer crust.. If you were inside this cortex (impossible), you would feel the core spinning in the opposite direction.