jerseykid | April 8, 2012 at 3:06 am |
Can’t get the helium out of a balloon to make your voice all squeaky without opening a hole in it.
Well, okay, technically helium seeps through balloons fast enough that someone clever, patient and resourceful enough could get the heli…
Anyway, the point is “inside”, and “outside”. Like you learned from Sesame Street.
Out there, where the Sun is and the void of space is, where all that inbound and outgoing radiation are.
In here, from 17 km up right to the core, where all that messy stuff that is pretty much either determined by the temperature the 600 km shell sets given what is outside it, or isn’t deterministic at all.
Anything from Outside (above 617km, give or take solar tide) that makes it to the oceans that will have an effect or be affected will experience it in 12 years of mixing or less, or else it would have happened anyway due dominant decadal flows, due the oceans having orders of magnitude more heat capacity and mass, and also all that surface area and biota, if you want to get really messy.
Reductionist. Insane. Potayto. Potahto. Am I wrong? Prove it.