The Earth's Mantle is Nothing Like You Thought

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  • Опубликовано: 15 дек 2024

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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow  5 лет назад +155

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    • @ccrusannoble
      @ccrusannoble 5 лет назад

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    • @sweetbunny6198
      @sweetbunny6198 5 лет назад +1

      You should rename this channel to WokeShow

    • @BlackWolf42-
      @BlackWolf42- 5 лет назад +1

      Did that Oxygen bound up in the mantle's Iron Peroxide come from the source of the earth's original surface Oxygen 2.7 billion years ago (from Cyanobacteria)?

    • @BlackyBrownDestruction9337
      @BlackyBrownDestruction9337 5 лет назад

      Food pyramid is a lie. Keto pyramid is the truth.

    • @zebedeesummers4413
      @zebedeesummers4413 5 лет назад +7

      I'm not sure where to put this but the overstated and sometimes even just incorrect titles need to stop. The chart isn't a lie, it's a simplification...which is an important distinction.

  • @wayneparker4855
    @wayneparker4855 5 лет назад +4374

    So the Earth's core has 2 "arms" sticking out of it on opposite sides, has anyone considered that the possibility that it's a giant Geodude?

    • @Battleship009
      @Battleship009 5 лет назад +172

      Or maybe it's Unicron.

    • @Titanic-wo6bq
      @Titanic-wo6bq 5 лет назад +245

      Nah, the liquid is red, so it must be koolaid.

    • @marccolten9801
      @marccolten9801 5 лет назад +81

      The Earth is a giant egg.

    • @FMHikari
      @FMHikari 5 лет назад +144

      The earth is a geodude egg, confirmed.

    • @HamEggNCheeseBiscuit
      @HamEggNCheeseBiscuit 5 лет назад +57

      Gigantamax Geodude or Cluster confirmed.

  • @ShatnerLover
    @ShatnerLover 3 года назад +596

    I find it so interesting how we seem to know about the mantle and what the core is made of, and the fact that there is a core and a mantle when we have never actually seen either. It’s crazy how this stuff works

    • @aazhie
      @aazhie Год назад +47

      It's like the worldwide version or knowing you have a brain, yet you will never be able to look at it without something going terribly wrong xD

    • @j.kearney484
      @j.kearney484 Год назад +24

      We have a picture of a black hole but not of our planet's mantle, weird and cool

    • @killac36
      @killac36 Год назад +5

      @@j.kearney484 because its easier to make a pic of blackhole than making one of our planets mantle

    • @Blobbyo25
      @Blobbyo25 Год назад +10

      And we haven't even physically travelled through the crust of the earth yet. Nothing made my humans has every entered the mantle.

    • @killac36
      @killac36 Год назад +4

      @@Blobbyo25 its impossible tho, the intense pressure and heat and who knows what else, will probl kill you before you even reach 25%

  • @beetoo20
    @beetoo20 5 лет назад +490

    The Earth is a giant lava lamp! Nice

    • @ValeriePallaoro
      @ValeriePallaoro 5 лет назад +17

      that's probably not a bad analogy .. nice.

    • @GrizzG13
      @GrizzG13 3 года назад +5

      All joking aside, yes. Absolutely.

    • @cordongrouch9323
      @cordongrouch9323 3 года назад +5

      Yeah, but the layered thing was not too inaccurate. It just needed a few tweaks, is all.

    • @cordongrouch9323
      @cordongrouch9323 3 года назад +8

      Magma lamp.

    • @aidanquinn1549
      @aidanquinn1549 3 года назад +4

      Or a lava lamp is a tiny representation of Earth

  • @billcook4768
    @billcook4768 5 лет назад +115

    Just want to thank you for being upfront about how little we know about the core of the earth. All the "we don't knows" and "we think" and "it could be" are important.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 5 лет назад +2709

    Flat Earthers looked at the title and clicked, hoping for evidence to their claims.

    • @kingv-raptor840
      @kingv-raptor840 5 лет назад +26

      Hello again

    • @KokoroKatsura
      @KokoroKatsura 5 лет назад +35

      a n i m e
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    • @zolee6357
      @zolee6357 5 лет назад +11

      There is plenty of evidence

    • @Reth_Hard
      @Reth_Hard 5 лет назад +13

      To be fair, if scientists are lying about this, who knows if they're not also lying about the shape of the earth?

    • @Reth_Hard
      @Reth_Hard 5 лет назад +4

      @Starhawk Flying Bright
      Did you read the title? They're lying!

  • @Lumpiluk
    @Lumpiluk 5 лет назад +701

    It's fantastic that you list your sources at all, but it would really help if, for example, you could number them and reference the respective number on screen during the video. The way it is I have to click on every link or guess from the URL to find what I'm looking for.

    • @Dr_Bille
      @Dr_Bille 5 лет назад +57

      Yea, if I was a lazy with my citations as them, I wouldn't have made it through first year of university lmao

    • @JosiahMcCarthy
      @JosiahMcCarthy 5 лет назад +39

      Are we talking *annotated bibliographies* here? Flash back to all the assignments I did not complete in high school because my bibliography was trash.

    • @mikenewtonninja9379
      @mikenewtonninja9379 5 лет назад +3

      '''kin hell, how easy should watching a video be bro!!

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee 5 лет назад +12

      THIS. This is the standard way many other channels use was much less annoying if you want to look into the citations.

    • @kateapple1
      @kateapple1 3 года назад +2

      Hahahahaha ahah you think ANY channels gonna do that? Good luck

  • @octavianova1300
    @octavianova1300 5 лет назад +26

    One of the leading hypotheses about the LLSVPs is actually that they are "slab graveyards" - aka, basically a bunch of old oceanic crust that has subducted over the eons and sunk to the bottom of the mantle, collecting in large piles that now register as low shear velocity provinces on seismographs

  • @andymanaus1077
    @andymanaus1077 5 лет назад +797

    Ok, so the mantle has haemorrhoids.

    • @C00kii0
      @C00kii0 5 лет назад +6

      😂😂😂😂

    • @theshuman100
      @theshuman100 5 лет назад +9

      @Jeff Jones ??!!! do you sqeeuze out hemmoroizd

    • @helpmefortheloveofshrek6623
      @helpmefortheloveofshrek6623 5 лет назад +3

      theshuman100 sure, just like you can squeeze out cancer!

    • @clayhorton9366
      @clayhorton9366 5 лет назад +15

      @@theshuman100 if you squeeze hard enough, you're in for a good week of pain.

    • @JosiahMcCarthy
      @JosiahMcCarthy 5 лет назад +7

      Actually, Megan...

  • @marcopohl4875
    @marcopohl4875 5 лет назад +117

    I mean yeah, as a natural structure (which usually have imperfections) I didn't expect the earth to be perfect so that wasn't a surprise. The part about the blobs was pretty interesting though.

  • @georgegiesbrecht8224
    @georgegiesbrecht8224 5 лет назад +56

    This episode made me feel like a tiny being. Good God this planet is huge

    • @sarasmr4278
      @sarasmr4278 5 лет назад +20

      Now think about how tiny the earth is in the solar system.
      Now think about it being 4 light years to the next star.
      Now think about all the empty space in the galaxy.
      Now go have your existential crisis properly. ;)

    • @mattio79
      @mattio79 5 лет назад +1

      @@sarasmr4278 Then look at the Planck volume, then look at the observable universe. We humans are in the dead center of the scale.

    • @kennethirgendwas4616
      @kennethirgendwas4616 5 лет назад

      For a good feel of scale of our galaxy check out the star map from the game elite dangerous.

    • @blacksmith67
      @blacksmith67 5 лет назад +6

      @@mattio79 You are absolutely right that we are in the dead centre of the scale, but so is Jupiter, and so is a grain of sand.

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 5 лет назад

      space is big...really...really big

  • @markgirard826
    @markgirard826 5 лет назад +130

    Sorry to be pedantic, but the "epicenter" is the point on the surface of the earth that lies above the center of the earthquake. The "focus" is the name for the point where the vibrations emanate from.
    Keep up the great videos!

    • @brayoungful
      @brayoungful 5 лет назад +21

      "hypocenter" is more common than "focus"

    • @bigdonut2631
      @bigdonut2631 5 лет назад +2

      Wow I forgot bout that thank you for reminding me

    • @namewasstolenstresslevel2111
      @namewasstolenstresslevel2111 5 лет назад +2

      its neither called focus or hypocenter, its called middle.

    • @bigdonut2631
      @bigdonut2631 5 лет назад +1

      @@namewasstolenstresslevel2111 are u perhaps a maddo scientistu

    • @HAWXLEADER
      @HAWXLEADER 5 лет назад +7

      No the Epicenter is when you enter a place epically!

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion 5 лет назад +141

    Me: I like to lie on the ground.
    SciShow: The ground is a lie.

    • @HomeofLawboy
      @HomeofLawboy 5 лет назад +13

      So you lie in a lie.

    • @Master_Therion
      @Master_Therion 5 лет назад +6

      @@viracocha I lie on the ground... and that's the truth! ;)
      "To lie" means to recline. "To lay" requires an object. i.e. I lay my head on a pillow when I lie down to sleep.

    • @NaturesAnomalies
      @NaturesAnomalies 5 лет назад

      60% of dirt is alive or dead fungi

  • @QueenoftheSkunks
    @QueenoftheSkunks 5 лет назад +369

    Flat earthers read the title and got hard. But were blue balled by the smart man and the earth science

    • @QueenoftheSkunks
      @QueenoftheSkunks 5 лет назад

      @@viracocha actually I'm a joke

    • @cheemsburmbger5872
      @cheemsburmbger5872 5 лет назад

      They got a cummy ache

    • @Joe_Potts
      @Joe_Potts 5 лет назад +1

      Whaa whaa whaa whaaaaaaahh

    • @eoinfitzsimons
      @eoinfitzsimons 5 лет назад +1

      @@viracocha actually isn't

    • @oli199615
      @oli199615 5 лет назад +21

      I'm ( unfortunaly ) living together with one, flat earthers are very real.

  • @davecool42
    @davecool42 5 лет назад +649

    It’s not a lie, it’s just simplified.

    • @Kirealta
      @Kirealta 5 лет назад +14

      And it's not even simplified in most countries.

    • @tektrixter
      @tektrixter 5 лет назад +61

      what it is is a clickbait title

    • @phoenixshade3
      @phoenixshade3 5 лет назад +74

      Wittgenstein's Ladder. A good first approximation to teach a generalized concept, which is improved upon later in one's studies.

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 4 года назад +44

      I do find it funny when people like to use a strawman argument where they take an oversimplified fact and try to disprove it by simply going into alot of detail on the subject. Diagrams like this are kind of like how old map makers used to draw in random clouds, or shapeless blobs over unexplored regions or in areas where they'd heard there was land but it hadnt been charted in detail yet: they weren't meant to mean that there wasn't anything there just that it wasn't explored yet and the map maker wanted to tell people "hey maybe there's something here but im not sure what exactly".

    • @987inuyasha
      @987inuyasha 3 года назад +13

      Oversimplification can lead to misunderstanding and lying.

  • @evanulven8249
    @evanulven8249 5 лет назад +341

    I actually have to call the title more than a little clickbaity. The diagram isn't a lie, it's an abstraction. It shows the layers of the earth in a straightforward manner so that those young students studying the topic have a visual aid. Everything else is details that are supposed to be covered in class, and generally is if the teacher is worth a damn. The diagram of the earth is as much a "lie" as a drawing of an atom, or a topographic map.

    • @andresv.8880
      @andresv.8880 5 лет назад +17

      I thinks it's a joke on their part. That's how I always interpret it

    • @ZeroSleap
      @ZeroSleap 5 лет назад +15

      The drawing of an atom sure is a lie because we now know it's not like that,but topographic maps are real as can be in what they represent.

    • @limiv5272
      @limiv5272 5 лет назад +17

      Too many dumb teachers tell their students that diagrams such as that are a true representation of reality, so I think it's best to only show the accurate diagram

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 5 лет назад +6

      @@andresv.8880 It is in order to attract the science deniers. But it just strenghens their anti science anti school attitude.

    • @andresv.8880
      @andresv.8880 5 лет назад +1

      @@maythesciencebewithyou I don't think that's the reason for their title, but then again I'm not pessimistic. Pessimism has never achieved anything.

  • @nickschaeffler7878
    @nickschaeffler7878 5 лет назад +187

    Yes but when I learned about this I was a child and this would've been confusing to me. Teaching the perfect spheres is just a way to better visualize this.

    • @airin1305
      @airin1305 5 лет назад +33

      They weren’t trying to criticize the fact that it is taught simply to children. Just point out that a lot of people, like myself, might not have been aware that their understanding was incorrect, or at the very least very simple. Sure if someone asked me if the layers were perfect spheres I could say probably not, but it’s not something I’ve thought about since 4th grade. And I think that’s all they meant to point out.

    • @OSUfirebird18
      @OSUfirebird18 5 лет назад +13

      @Patrick B It's kind of like teaching the Bohr model of the atom to late elementary school/early middle schoolers. Yes, we know electrons don't orbit the nucleus like planets, but it helps children conceptualize what atoms are. Then when you get to 10th/11th grade chemistry, you can go nuts with sp3 shells! LOL

    • @rememberme1731
      @rememberme1731 5 лет назад +1

      @@OSUfirebird18 I disagree your basically making them learn the same thing all over again if its too complicated to teach in 5th grade teach it in 6th don't just teach the wrong thing because it's easier to explain now I think the model of the Earth is fine because for all intents and purposes your being taught the right thing just not all of the details while in your example your pretty much taught something that's false and then years later once the wrong way is firmly planted in your head you have to learn a whole new system and explanation. While in the Earth model everything you learned has been correct they just didn't put in some of the fine details because there no point in learning the Earth has bumps around it's core unless you're going to study that specifically

    • @TIBYCOLLINS
      @TIBYCOLLINS 5 лет назад +5

      Oversimplication = lose information. I dont think anyone is expecting elementary school kids to know about random mantle protrusions, but it is interesting to know now that you're older no?

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 5 лет назад +5

      @@rememberme1731 You didn't even learn basic punctuation, so you have no right to speak on any aspect of education.

  • @arcanehero1247
    @arcanehero1247 5 лет назад +31

    *learns a thing in school*
    Scishow: WRONG

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 4 года назад +1

      To be fair I did have alot of science classes that started out with "so most of this is wrong but it's on the test/lesson plan so..."

  • @Master_Conner
    @Master_Conner Год назад +5

    This actually explains a lot of stuff I was taught about the earth but didn't fully understand. You see, I was told that the Mariana Trench was continental plates returning to the mantle, but that the crust goes 24 miles down, not 20,000 ft. So this blob underneath the Pacific Ocean makes perfect sense.

  • @Ascertivus
    @Ascertivus Год назад +7

    3:13 I’ve wondered what caused that seemingly random hotspot in the middle of the ocean ever since I first learned about it. This hypothesis makes a lot of sense!

  • @chickenmonger123
    @chickenmonger123 5 лет назад +13

    That makes sense. I don’t think I ever actually literally thought the layers where perfect spheres. Why would they be? Nothing else is that flat. Though I never thought much about it.

    • @chickenmonger123
      @chickenmonger123 5 лет назад

      Real Donald Trump Well Mr. President, if you think back to the diagrams in school, those where explained as irregular spots of pressure, and heat on the mantle, with the mantle sliding around the top most layer. This video fills in the fact that irregularities between layers are responsible for the formation of those sort of anthill like structures in the mantle.that are outlets for pressure and heat.
      My condolences about the impeachment, it’s kind of flimsy, and sets a bad precedent. Here’s hoping the inquiry comes up dry... Running the United States like the clumsy good old boy politics found in board rooms and private Galas is plain stupid though. You should’ve learned from the Dems in that matter. Discretion is valuable as you now know. But you never had any, why should your coterie?.The head school yard bully, is often not the head by merit, but rather because his underlings let him go first. Alas you thought you where the head because of your skill and cunning.

    • @yakarotsennin3115
      @yakarotsennin3115 5 лет назад

      No one thought the inside of the Earth was perfect spheres. We know the diagram is just a simplistic explanation of the differing layers of the Earth. The only thing that this video brought to light was blogs the size of continents near the bottom of the mantel.

    • @chickenmonger123
      @chickenmonger123 5 лет назад

      Yakarot Sennin Yes. I said that. That was the entire point of my comment.

    • @Loy_Otterton
      @Loy_Otterton Год назад

      Imma be real. I never thought they were perfect spheres, but I also didn't thought they weren't. I just knew there were different layers. I never gave it thought and I'm glad I know now for sure.

  • @Chris_da_fro
    @Chris_da_fro 5 лет назад +7

    I cant even wrap my head around how much sea water simply gets swallowed up by gaps in the tectonic plates all the way down to the mantle and all the life that gets taking with it

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof Год назад +1

      I mean, I'm sure you can't, because nobody knows lol.
      If the Earth does lose water that way, then it would be a new discovery. Our current state of knowledge is that the Earth only loses water in outer space, and receives a slightly smaller amount from comets and meteorites.
      If the Earth did lose constantly vasts amount of water in the mantle, then we would have to revise our models... And it would be pretty concerning too, because there isn't that much water on the surface of Earth.
      Same thing when it comes to life, as far as we know barely anything disappears that way.

  • @orionstar3310
    @orionstar3310 5 лет назад +114

    Last time I was this early muscle hank gave me a massage.

    • @sarasmr4278
      @sarasmr4278 5 лет назад +2

      I want a massage but I am an hour late 😣

    • @jayfawn8478
      @jayfawn8478 5 лет назад +3

      Dead meme

    • @T1Oracle
      @T1Oracle 5 лет назад +1

      Was the end happy or was that early too?

    • @apple54345
      @apple54345 5 лет назад +3

      last time i was this early i was asking why there was hair around my anus.

    • @apple54345
      @apple54345 5 лет назад +2

      @@viracocha well, he does have 55 likes. compared to your... ahem... 0 likes.

  • @erneizhyde2660
    @erneizhyde2660 5 лет назад +49

    That diagram is a model and it's as much a lie as the model of our solar system and other simple models we use in science.
    As in, not really, it's just incomplete and there's much simplification going on.
    Which you can then learn deeper at more advanced schools if it piqued your interest.
    Though I guess "incomplete" is not as click-baity as "a lie".

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 5 лет назад

      👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @broomemike1
      @broomemike1 5 лет назад +7

      Wait, they'd pick a title that would try to get folks to watch it?
      Then I'm starting to think that my book "The story about a detective who eventually solves the murder" needs a better title.

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 5 лет назад

      People are seemingly too dumb to comprehend what a model is and that scientists try to simply things so that idiots might hopefully get a clue what they are trying to say. If everything was explained in Detail, these idiots would start moaning an bitching even more. These click baity titles only strenghen the anti science and anti school attitude of most people.

  • @ilikedota5
    @ilikedota5 5 лет назад +11

    I learned the chemical composition way (crust, mantle, inner and outer cores) in elementary school, and then in middle school I learned the physical properties way (lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesophere, inner and outer cores)

    • @sarasmr4278
      @sarasmr4278 5 лет назад +2

      You forgot about the gooey chocolate center!

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 5 лет назад +3

      and now we know that all but the most inner layers of the earth are gluten free and always have been...weird huh?

  • @necko2529
    @necko2529 5 лет назад +55

    Here come flath earthers with:
    "I knew it, they lied"
    "They lied about everything "
    "The earth is flat"
    Thanks SciShow...

    • @_earlyworm
      @_earlyworm 5 лет назад +1

      Necko Agic no flat earther is gonna watch this show

    • @necko2529
      @necko2529 5 лет назад +1

      That's the problem, they'll take the title and run with it...

    • @jakeg3126
      @jakeg3126 4 года назад

      Come on, they can say that it’s proof because it has to be uneven to fold map to make it appear to be round.
      I’m still trying to figure out how we can get orbits and travel to work with popping over the edges of maps to make this flat earth exist. The round earth theory/fact is almost flawless.

  • @ashleave
    @ashleave 5 лет назад +11

    SciShow: "Maybe could explain why the Earth's magnetic field reverses"
    Me: The Earth's magnetic field reverses!!?!?

    • @franzsno7019
      @franzsno7019 5 лет назад +1

      Avery Ashley I’m pretty sure the next field reverse is overdue, idk. But it can affect electronics like gps

    • @DesertSessions93
      @DesertSessions93 4 года назад

      It's actually been moving more than normal lately, and pretty fast

    • @sossololpipi9633
      @sossololpipi9633 3 года назад

      it do be groovin

  • @StYxXx
    @StYxXx 4 года назад +5

    As far as I remember our school books (southern Germany) actually showed irregularities. I mean of course: there has to be some, so vulcanos can exist. But those weren't two large objects, rather multiple smaller ones (like swirls and "channels", especially near vulcanos). It wasn't known back then. And I wouldn't include them in school books yet, since it's not totally understood and newer findings might show a different picture. So better keep simplified versions for kids.

  • @mwm48
    @mwm48 5 лет назад +279

    Please don’t use clickbait. It’s not a lie, it’s an over simplification for the sake of learning. It’s extremely dangerous to keep saying things like “Everything you were taught in school about XYZ is a lie” or “Here’s what the science books WON’T teach you”. So, SO tired of seeing those sensationalist headlines. It really undermines our education system. This is supposed to be a science and learning channel.

    • @bluechair9172
      @bluechair9172 5 лет назад +20

      The curse of RUclips. You have to use clickbait or many would not have even clicked on the video on the first place, causing a slow but never ending decline of views and the loss of relevancy of this channel. In short, sensatiobaliist headlines of slow (or fast) channel death.

    • @carlosoliveira-rc2xt
      @carlosoliveira-rc2xt 5 лет назад +1

      Everything was a lie or if it makes you sleep better, just plain wrong.

    • @rjpena6273
      @rjpena6273 5 лет назад +4

      There are science chanells that does not do this at the consequence of not attacting lots of attention and ofcourse they did not choose that and hence why you are here and not at good ones.

    • @rjpena6273
      @rjpena6273 5 лет назад

      Channels

    • @thom3915
      @thom3915 5 лет назад +6

      The educational system undermines reality... It exists to train a programmeable inner voice for population control and its been this way since the Brits started the industrial revolution by making the technology public.. its all planned dude..

  • @treyondaren3542
    @treyondaren3542 5 лет назад +110

    What a bad title... the diagram is just a general representation and its stays true to the subject, the planet is like that buts thats just a very simplified view.

    • @mirawenya
      @mirawenya 5 лет назад +4

      Ikr? This is so duh...

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 5 лет назад +4

      Because the science illiterates need to be strenghened in their core belief that all of science is a lie.

    • @hikkomorisg
      @hikkomorisg 5 лет назад +4

      Ya, like saying the diagram of the human anatomy is a lie.

    • @nothingtoseeherefolks6911
      @nothingtoseeherefolks6911 4 года назад +3

      Even Scishow descends into clickbait sometimes. Sad, but true.

    • @LordDaret
      @LordDaret 3 года назад +2

      @@stevenbrock528 “close” does not mean “is”. The diagrams are not lying or close to it, they are just an approximation of how the inner earth is organized. It’s like handing someone a sphere made of clay and being told that it isn’t because it has a tiny dent in it.

  • @omerfurtun4115
    @omerfurtun4115 3 года назад +1

    I just watched a video form a channel focusing on astronomy and it was said that Theia, the celestial body that collided with Earth and created the moon, is what these LLSV's are. Theia was a Mars sized body, part of it formed the moon, other parts sunk into the Earth's mantle because they were very dense. Apparently when we add the mass of the moon and the LLSV's mass, we roughly get a mass that correlates to an object like Theia. There's also no other celestial body that could be the remains of Theia (parts that didn't become the moon) so this hypothesis somewhat checks out.

  • @TheJarJarKinks
    @TheJarJarKinks 5 лет назад +38

    Yeah, but elementary school me didn't need to know all that detail. Just a vague idea that would be refined as needed for my profession or by my interests.

    • @airin1305
      @airin1305 5 лет назад +3

      jablue I don’t think the point of that section was that it shouldn’t be taught simply to elementary school students, but rather that most people haven’t heard anything else, and might still be under that impression years after elementary school. They are, as you said, refining people’s understanding by their interests, as in the people watching this video.

    • @francofranco9815
      @francofranco9815 5 лет назад

      airin1305 he didn't say other people don't need it. He pertains to himself.

    • @louf7178
      @louf7178 5 лет назад

      👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 5 лет назад

      @@airin1305 As if people wanted to know anything about this.

  • @FreeCandyGuy
    @FreeCandyGuy Год назад +7

    Anyone else watching this after watching the short?

  • @johnnybravo1206
    @johnnybravo1206 Год назад +3

    Found this because of a short! Hell yeah!

  • @noratayefeh9705
    @noratayefeh9705 5 лет назад +13

    Well, guess I’m going back to elementary school

  • @johnshepherd4299
    @johnshepherd4299 5 лет назад +7

    The title might be inspiring of greater misconception, an alternative would be "This graph is inaccurate and oversimplified"

    • @marlkarx3725
      @marlkarx3725 3 года назад

      someone wanted it to be inaccurate and oversimplified

  • @SaraBearRawr0312
    @SaraBearRawr0312 5 лет назад +12

    I've always found it amazing that we often know more about a planet millions of kilometers away while being baffled by the crust a few kilometers below the ocean or the layers beneath it.

    • @yakarotsennin3115
      @yakarotsennin3115 5 лет назад +10

      Except when it comes to Geology, we *don’t* know more about any other planet more than we know about Earth. Until we get humans to Mars and run various tests, we have yet to learn as much as we have about Earth’s insides. It’ll be interesting once we get there to learn how similar Mar’s mantle is to Earth’s.

  • @AuntBibby
    @AuntBibby 5 лет назад +22

    peridot voice: THE CLUSTER!!!! WE’re DOomED!!!!!!!

    • @C00kii0
      @C00kii0 5 лет назад +2

      This comment made me cackle in the /UGLIEST/ way

    • @nuclearshorts1243
      @nuclearshorts1243 5 лет назад +1

      *space dorito

  • @bladerj
    @bladerj 3 года назад +1

    so we discovered the earth IS partially hollow.....congrats now send a drone and bring us back pictures of dinossaurs

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty 5 лет назад +10

    Yeah, everyone knows it's really flat and made of cheese. Where do you think all those sink holes come from?? It's swiss.

  • @Taldaran
    @Taldaran 3 года назад +1

    Never ceases to amaze me that so much science is still based on pure informed guesswork.

  • @WitchVulgar
    @WitchVulgar 5 лет назад +7

    Me: *reads title*
    Me: duh, the Earth is both flat AND hollow

  • @ghostnoodle9721
    @ghostnoodle9721 5 лет назад +5

    Ten flat earthers got jabaited

  • @itaybron
    @itaybron 5 лет назад +15

    Earth is thicc

  • @bradleypariah
    @bradleypariah 5 лет назад +1

    1:58 - "It's blobby and uneven..." I feel personally attacked.

  • @aeureus
    @aeureus 5 лет назад +11

    All the scientists who made the diagram:
    *:(*

  • @1sorbus
    @1sorbus Год назад

    i think the earth just needs a really big hug after what humans have put it through… these “arms” are perfect!

  • @Killerean
    @Killerean 5 лет назад +8

    For a while it's clear to me that the vision of earth as a solid object is quite flawed. Pretty much everything about the Earth below 50km is more or less just molten rock and metal. Another quite flawed perception of Earth is the Earth as a spheroid or whatever.
    The difference between the poles and the equator is just about 70km which compared to the diameter of the Earth is negligible. If compared to a soccer ball, the crevices between the sections of a soccer ball scaled up to the size of the earth, would be hundreds of kilometers deep. Oceans would be only present in these crevices while the rest of the surface will be a mountainous desert.

    • @BonaparteBardithion
      @BonaparteBardithion 5 лет назад +6

      I know you were just using it for comparison, but now I'm gonna spend the rest of the day imagining society, transportation and agriculture on the soccer ball planet.

    • @yakarotsennin3115
      @yakarotsennin3115 5 лет назад +2

      BonaparteBardithion
      How do plays tectonics work on a Soccer Ball planet?

    • @BonaparteBardithion
      @BonaparteBardithion 5 лет назад +2

      @@yakarotsennin3115
      Not sure they would. If the surface is that unnaturally even, it would have to be either artificial or the surface would be tectonically dead. There's a number of things we'd have to ignore to make that work.

    • @nekroneko
      @nekroneko 5 лет назад +1

      @@BonaparteBardithion Scaled up, even a snooker ball would have mountains and valleys greater than any planet in our solar system.

    • @BonaparteBardithion
      @BonaparteBardithion 5 лет назад +2

      @@nekroneko
      Overall, it doesn't sound like it would be naturally occurring. Where would people live though? Along the walls of the valley above the sea? What would the weather be like in there? How would temperature and convection zones work?

  • @alisoncircus
    @alisoncircus 3 года назад +1

    1 year ago: You don't need to worry about a magnetic field reversal
    Now: The north magnetic pole is drifting rapidly towards Siberia...

  • @VoltCruelerz
    @VoltCruelerz 5 лет назад +148

    "The size of a gallon of paint."
    ... as opposed to the size of literally any other gallon?

    • @maxsalmon4980
      @maxsalmon4980 5 лет назад +11

      Different liquids can have different densities...but I suppose the difference wouldn't be easy to see in all but the most extreme cases. :)

    • @josephblanchard6248
      @josephblanchard6248 5 лет назад +13

      Well a gallon of milk is larger than a can of paint. Just like a ton of feathers will be bigger than a ton of bricks.

    • @jerry3790
      @jerry3790 5 лет назад +68

      Max Salmon Gallon is a measure of volume so that’s irrelevant

    • @lif3andthings763
      @lif3andthings763 5 лет назад +10

      It looks like what a gallon of paint would like it is just a comparison thats why they chose paint.

    • @danielgrantham9537
      @danielgrantham9537 5 лет назад +14

      @@josephblanchard6248 No its not... go put a paint can next to a milk jug. They're roughly the same size. plus a gallon is a measure of volume not mass.

  • @mischarowe
    @mischarowe Год назад +1

    The blobs make me think of mutations. Extra growths.

  • @xavier4563
    @xavier4563 5 лет назад +7

    I can finnaly bully my geography teacher, Thanks scishow :D

  • @Anadorablekiwi
    @Anadorablekiwi 4 года назад +2

    I don’t know if you guys have covered it already, but you should do a video about how the mantle is actually green, not red/orange/yellow like all of the diagrams show

    • @kittymowmow12
      @kittymowmow12 Год назад

      I think that the red color is used to denote the temperature of the mantle (1000 degrees celsius!), not the composition. We know that the composition is high in silicates, which is an ingredient in olivine (a green/black mineral) and pyroxene that form Peridotite, the green rock you're thinking of.

  • @matt_milack
    @matt_milack 5 лет назад +24

    Flat Earthers be like- Of course it's a lie, below the ground is hell.

    • @Titanic-wo6bq
      @Titanic-wo6bq 5 лет назад +2

      But than what's beneath hell?

    • @crapcase3985
      @crapcase3985 5 лет назад +6

      @@Titanic-wo6bq Logan Paul's boxing career

    • @connork9745
      @connork9745 5 лет назад

      @@crapcase3985 No thats just the Eighth layer of Hell moving on

    • @lookwaticando909
      @lookwaticando909 4 года назад

      @@Titanic-wo6bq lucifer

  • @orionx79
    @orionx79 3 года назад +1

    They also think the blobs might be left over material from theta crashing into us. Theta is the planet that may have crashed into us creating the moon and us.

  • @Titanic-wo6bq
    @Titanic-wo6bq 5 лет назад +6

    2:04 This looks like someone dropped mentos into a bottle of diet coke with a huge opening at the top
    #mantleismadeofdietcokeconfirmed

  • @VoIcanoman
    @VoIcanoman 5 лет назад

    It is refreshing to watch a video that doesn't make the mistake of claiming that the mantle is a vast ocean of molten rock feeding all of the Earth's volcanoes. That's still something kids learn in school (which I discovered to my consternation, in a previous life as a university geology prof), but the idea really needs to die. It's not over-complicating matters to tell kids the truth (rather than giving them a fantasy that we've known to be false for many decades). Magma forms due to one of two main processes, in the upper mantle. Either a slab of subducting oceanic crust brings hydrated minerals (and perhaps water under extremely high temperatures and pressures) into the mantle, where it leaves the crust and lowers the melting point of the minerals in the mantle above the subducting slab, enabling it to PARTIALLY melt. Being liquid, it has a lower density than the surrounding solid rock, and therefore has a tendency to be more buoyant, forcing its way through the mantle, the tectonic plate, and possibly all the way to the surface of the Earth, forming a volcano. OR, convection currents in the solid mantle (or these mantle plumes) bring hot, solid rock from deep in the mantle to shallower locations. The reduction in pressure, without a reduction in temperature of a similar scale, allows the solid material to partially melt, and continue to rise as magma through the mantle, and lithospheric plates, to possibly form a volcano. You don't have to invoke phase diagrams or related concepts (like what a solidus is) to explain this. Just teach that matter can change phases due to changes in composition, temperature and pressure, and that the rock in the Earth's mantle behaves a bit like wax, or Play-Doh, subject to moving around while remaining solid.
    As for these plumes of low-velocity material (commonly called mantle plumes), they're weird. They're also not all the same. Some of them do appear to contain thermal anomalies (seemingly vindicating the nomenclature assigned to them: "hotspot"), but others appear no hotter than the surrounding mantle material. Furthermore, because of the heat being produced within the Earth (due primarily to the radioactive decay of isotopes that were trapped in the Earth during its formation), some have theorized that the mantle plumes that are indeed "hot" could be caused by the presence of a thick mass of continental lithosphere trapping some of that heat and allowing it to accumulate, lowering the density of the mantle material beneath, and allowing it to rise (the analogy I like to use is if you take a book and leave it on top of an electric heating blanket, while exposing the rest of the blanket to the air...the area of blanket beneath the book will be much hotter than the rest of it after a few minutes). The East African mantle plume especially lends itself to this theory as Africa is this massive and, of the major plates, is the 4th-slowest moving, meaning it has been over one area of the plastic mantle for tens of millions of years. Features like the Siberian Traps, one of the world's biggest flood basalt plains (which is also thought to trace its source to a mantle plume) further confirm this idea, given that the Eurasian plate is moving at less than 1 cm per year, by far the slowest of the plates. North America is also slow-moving, and the Columbia River flood basalt plain, as well as the Yellowstone caldera are thought to be explained by their own mantle plume.
    But it's not all smooth-sailing. South America is also made of thick continental lithosphere, and moving very slowly, but it is bereft of hotspots. Plus, the plume under the Pacific ocean that has given rise to the Hawai'ian-Emperor island/seamount chain does actually appear to be much hotter than the surrounding mantle material...but it is underlain by a fast-moving, THIN oceanic plate. Why would this plate trap more heat than the thick continental crust beneath the Andes mountains, for example, giving rise to this phenomenon? So something else is going on here, and I don't think iron peroxide will be the last word on the subject (not by a long shot), though it may form part of the explanation, for SOME plumes, maybe. These things are perhaps the biggest mystery in the modern Earth Sciences; we can see them, we can see the impact they've had, we can trace that impact back through time for hundreds of millions of years. But that has gotten us no closer to determining their origin. Science is fun!

  • @mikanmandarin
    @mikanmandarin 5 лет назад +27

    I literally googled about this last week and now this...... get out my search history smh 😩😩

    • @mikanmandarin
      @mikanmandarin 5 лет назад +4

      Jeff Jones I for one welcome our FBI overlords

    • @AlejandroRodolfoMendez
      @AlejandroRodolfoMendez 5 лет назад

      Use duckduckgo for sensible searchs, and wolfram alpha for science data.

    • @Reelix
      @Reelix 5 лет назад

      @@AlejandroRodolfoMendez DuckDuckGo searches using RUclips, and still tracks people. There's no difference.

    • @AlejandroRodolfoMendez
      @AlejandroRodolfoMendez 5 лет назад

      @@Reelix it is not for tracking (there are add ons for browsers for that) but for a clean browser history.

    • @KsJayhawker94
      @KsJayhawker94 5 лет назад +1

      And whatever you Googled this week will be in next week's episode!

  • @lotgc
    @lotgc 3 года назад +1

    Now, is it possible there could be super massive caves down there too? If some sea water can get all the way down there, could there be some caves down there?

  • @MattJasa
    @MattJasa 5 лет назад +3

    If I took anything away from DnD is that running into blobs is never a good sign.

  • @ProudMurican_PVT-GR137
    @ProudMurican_PVT-GR137 Год назад

    “It’s blobby and uneven” like we thought it is. Like the world we see is all smooth like a perfect bubble

  • @ashyosings5089
    @ashyosings5089 5 лет назад +53

    Everyone's hating on flat earth's that arnt even here

    • @ashyosings5089
      @ashyosings5089 5 лет назад

      @Fast Internet I have an open mind because I refuse to be indoctrinated.
      E.g. gaslighting but on a huge scale

    • @ashyosings5089
      @ashyosings5089 5 лет назад

      @Fast Internet They give us text books then tell us they were wrong 10 years later

    • @ashyosings5089
      @ashyosings5089 5 лет назад

      @Fast Internet I was taught how to you google in year 5 by my it teacher and he said we might as well all drop out infomation is in the phones

    • @ashyosings5089
      @ashyosings5089 5 лет назад

      @Fast Internet I was 10

    • @makern5304
      @makern5304 5 лет назад

      @Fast Internet ;-;

  • @JohnnyGreenslit
    @JohnnyGreenslit 3 года назад

    I love the theme song to SciShow. I haven’t watched this channel since I was 14 or 15 and watching this today I sang along the moment the music started

  • @thepleo62
    @thepleo62 5 лет назад +16

    Ok but how did they put trump in a peach

  • @rockinbobokkin7831
    @rockinbobokkin7831 5 лет назад

    SciShow!!!!!!
    You guys are great!
    I hope every kid in the world gets your stuff.

  • @chishionotenshi
    @chishionotenshi 5 лет назад +24

    I mean, the Earth isn't a perfect sphere in the first place. You should know that by high school. And it's not a MAP, it's a diagram- a helpful illustration to demonstrate a concept. The concept isn't that everything in the Earth is perfectly spherical, but that the Earth has internal layers, which the diagram demonstrates accurately. This is like saying a Pie Chart should be a short cylinder instead of a flat circle, because pies are short cylinders.
    I know you guys can come up with better ways to give us cool information, instead of contriving this false premise. Yada, yada, clickbait, numbers- still can do better as a SCIENCE channel.

    • @Fif0l
      @Fif0l 5 лет назад +2

      Well, you'd need a really high resolution to even begin to picture that Earth isn't a perfect sphere. It's more spherical than the most round objects we can actually produce.

    • @jackstrawful
      @jackstrawful 5 лет назад +6

      chishionotenshi Thanks for saying this, I was thinking the same thing. It’s not a lie, it’s just simplified - well, duh, of course it is, it’s just meant to introduce the concept of different layers to laypeople and children. Electrons don’t orbit around a nucleus in the same way as planets around a star, but that doesnt mean that atomic diagrams are lies either. Disappointed that SciShow would use such clickbaity language which just feeds into a dangerous narrative of science being untrustworthy.

    • @Daedric16
      @Daedric16 5 лет назад +2

      I never remember any teachers, professors, or books saying the layers were perfectly smooth and even. I never remember believing that either. There was no lie. I simply believed it was a diagram representing approximate internal layers, and that's what it was. Next, this channel will create a video telling us that renderings of the Milky Way galaxy are all a lie because they're not 100% accurate.

  • @wheelitzr2
    @wheelitzr2 5 лет назад +1

    "and with every new image" then proceeds to only show a study image from the 1970's.

  • @fep_ptcp883
    @fep_ptcp883 5 лет назад +8

    The cake is a lie 🎂

  • @nazaxprime
    @nazaxprime Год назад +1

    For those interested...
    "
    The new study showed that Earth's inner core is in a “superionic state,” made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, which, when combined and subjected to pressure and temperature, create a substance that is between a solid and a liquid.
    "

  • @EclipseGamer02
    @EclipseGamer02 Год назад

    Idea, if it hasn't been done yet, make a movie or a video game where you're or the main character is one of the workers going to see what it truly is... someone probably already done that right? It sounds too good to pass on

  • @carissstewart3211
    @carissstewart3211 5 лет назад +9

    What? You mean reality is much more complex than we imagine it?

    • @ilovesparky13
      @ilovesparky13 5 лет назад +2

      Cariss Stewart Yeah, it’s crazy how they simplify it for elementary school kids. 🙄🙄

  • @myria2834
    @myria2834 Год назад +1

    I always assumed the perfect sphere representation was for ease of understanding for children. We don't need any more precise detail for the purpose it serves, and leaves new details for self directed learning.

  • @pauljackson3491
    @pauljackson3491 5 лет назад +4

    When you said epicenter you showed the point inside the Earth.
    That wouldn't be the epicenter; the epicenter is the part on the surface.
    I don't know what the circle you showed, maybe the center or subcenter?

    • @squallloire
      @squallloire 5 лет назад +1

      Epicentre can just mean centre - it's only in seismology that it specifically refers to a point on the surface.
      Edit: Apologies, hadn't made it to that point and they were actually talking about seismology at that point so your comment is entirely valid afaik

  • @andrewolesen8773
    @andrewolesen8773 5 лет назад

    What you refer to at 1:09 and what is drawn in the animation is a hypocentre. Epicentres are at the surface above the hypocentre.

  • @scribesforsubscribers8027
    @scribesforsubscribers8027 5 лет назад +4

    Typical science video in 2019:
    Remember everything you learned in school...?
    Yea, that was all a lie!!!
    Reactions in 2019 going into 2020 = am I really surprised?

  • @World_Theory
    @World_Theory 3 года назад +1

    If there are any changes in the Earth's magnetic field, I want to know about them. Because the magnetic field is extremely important for protecting us from outside sources of radiation.

  • @tediouz85
    @tediouz85 5 лет назад +6

    I don't remember SciShow using click-baity titles like this so much until recently...

  • @diamondjub2318
    @diamondjub2318 5 лет назад

    THIS WILL NOT STOP ME FROM EATING THE EARTH LIKE A JAWBREAKER

  • @Lscott-fk2sn
    @Lscott-fk2sn Год назад +3

    Came here from shorts.

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 3 года назад

    I'll never be able to get a good night's sleep again knowing that the opening diagram of the earth's interior was inaccurate....

  • @marcussparticus8380
    @marcussparticus8380 5 лет назад +22

    The Diagram is not a Lie it's a simplified explanation for the General Public. To say that it is a lie is to insinuate that the creator of the Diagram is a lier, not an accurate statement from a channel that is supposed to be based on Scientific Truths. Please be more accurate in the future if you want to be taken seriously.
    ( This Diagram is Inaccurate )
    would have been a better and more accurate description.

    • @windrunner9158
      @windrunner9158 5 лет назад +4

      omg give them a break, they need the clickbaity titles for views in order to stay competitive in this youtube world. A boring( albeit more accurate title) might not get the clicks, and lead to a loss of viewers. I can see how having a title that is... incomplete might negatively impact the public's understanding of geology, but it is counteracted with the effect of increasing the # of people who learn(more clicks=more educated individuals on the topic). These people need the views to pay for their studios or present to bigger companies to renew their contracts. I believe that sciShow -- given their dedication to promoting the public awareness and understanding of science-- sees this approach as leading to a net positive for the world. In conclusion, "This Diagram of the Earth is Inaccurate" is not going to sell in the world of instant gratification and Kim Kardashian .

    • @Darkmattermonkey77
      @Darkmattermonkey77 5 лет назад +5

      I get what you mean. In school, what we learn didn’t have to be gnats ass exact, just in the ballpark for teaching basic principles to developing minds. To say it’s a lie is a little harsh on the public education system. Better to say, “the layers of the earth aren’t exactly what you were taught”. Still gets interest but without the click-bate.

    • @ValeriePallaoro
      @ValeriePallaoro 5 лет назад +1

      Sooo .. this stops you from taking this channel seriously? I mean .. Seriously?

    • @med8615
      @med8615 5 лет назад

      its for the algorithms sake. dont take it too seriously

    • @allthesenri-hin4766
      @allthesenri-hin4766 5 лет назад

      I think the average person can extrapolate a bit on the word 'lie.'

  • @MilleniumActress
    @MilleniumActress 3 года назад +1

    I'm starting to believe I mostly just learned theories at school.

    • @eduardosc3434
      @eduardosc3434 3 года назад +1

      Thats what most of schooling is honestly. Theories and HUGE oversimplifications. And the public school system is also VERY biased with what they teach.

  • @g3heathen209
    @g3heathen209 5 лет назад +5

    Not so much a lie as outdated.

    • @DRiungi
      @DRiungi 5 лет назад

      clickbait, he doesn't even say lie.

  • @merrigalebeddoes1921
    @merrigalebeddoes1921 5 лет назад +1

    Looks like we may be living on the outside of a giant lava lamp.

  • @eddypalogrande
    @eddypalogrande 5 лет назад +3

    This one was kinda feeling like Click Bait..

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 5 лет назад +1

    The diagram sits on a throne of lies

  • @bradbrown8759
    @bradbrown8759 5 лет назад +3

    These things are not lies. Just inaccuracies. Unlike religions, science learns.

    • @bradbrown8759
      @bradbrown8759 5 лет назад +1

      Science is a tool. WE determine truth or facts through observation and repeatable experiments. When something is found wrong it & we change our understanding to incorporate new knowledge. This is how it happily moves awareness forward. And it is the nature of man to seek knowledge and understanding.

  • @spudsbuchlaw
    @spudsbuchlaw Год назад

    At this point, I'm convinced those are "Arms" and Earth is gonna awaken into a Planet Mech that Satan's gonna pilot to battle the Sun (Which is also a Mech, who's arms are its Corona, and CME is it's special move)

  • @MrSthotwhelz
    @MrSthotwhelz 5 лет назад +8

    "lie" is click-baity

    • @notachannle
      @notachannle 5 лет назад +1

      Good. Bait people into learning.

    • @matlowe3020
      @matlowe3020 5 лет назад

      This isthe kind of click baiting i can get behind

  • @randomchannel609
    @randomchannel609 Год назад +2

    the earth is a geodude

  • @Paldasan
    @Paldasan 5 лет назад +5

    It's not a lie, it's a simplified representation. Please stop acting like a cable news channel.

  • @sarahm.6965
    @sarahm.6965 Год назад

    I want to watch a whole documentary on this. I am intrigued!!

  • @Stennifer
    @Stennifer 5 лет назад

    That model looks like something went straight through the core.

  • @cremebrulee4759
    @cremebrulee4759 Год назад +1

    Another illusion shattered.

  • @rogeriopenna9014
    @rogeriopenna9014 5 лет назад +1

    News for you all: not mantle blobs.
    It's actually the Underdark!

  • @rox4884
    @rox4884 3 года назад

    The more I learn about geology, the more it fits into the theory that a planet hit the Earth, bounced off and is now the Moon.

  • @otapic
    @otapic Год назад

    Bro these scientists just need to pull up the X-Ray texture pack. Ain't that hard to see through the ground

  • @92brunod
    @92brunod 5 лет назад

    0:53 the size of a gallon of paint, as opposed to a gallon of water which is much smaller. Because as we all know units of volume vary in size depending on what it is it contains...

  • @Mukeshmiktecrep
    @Mukeshmiktecrep 5 лет назад

    Every diagram is a lie until you see youself

  • @hochibamabinladenhusainefe8191
    @hochibamabinladenhusainefe8191 5 лет назад

    Why is the new episode private