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Prove us WRONG .😑 IF YOU CAN. Earn a spot on the SHOW · Prompt Air

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  You stomp your foot on the ground and, you know,
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  it feels completely solid, like unyielding rock.
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  But if you dig into the stack of physics and
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  geology research we have for today's deep dive,
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  that illusion totally shatters. Yeah, it turns
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  out the Earth isn't static at all. It's actually
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  running on the exact same fluid operating system
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  as quantum metals and, well... black holes. Which
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  is just wild. And welcome to the deep dive, by
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  the way. So we're basically looking at a universe
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  that recycles its best ideas. Yeah, exactly.
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  Whether you're dealing with literal dirt, ocean
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  currents, sound waves, or even the fabric of
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  space -time. I mean, energy is managed using
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  the exact same playbook. Okay, so let's unpack
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  this, starting with the dirt. I was reading the
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  notes on the Milwaukee Formation, which is this
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  like 385 million year old rock layer in the crust.
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  And the research says it actually absorbs mechanical
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  shock and stray electricity. Right. But how does
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  solid rock actively, you know, eat kinetic energy?
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  Well, it really just comes down to friction.
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  So this formation is made of multiple stacked
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  rock layers, and each one has a different density.
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  When a shockwave hits, those layers, they don't
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  vibrate at the same speed. They end up grinding
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  and sliding against each other. Oh, I see. And
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  all that internal friction basically takes the
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  kinetic energy of the shockwave and dissipates
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  it as heat. So it's essentially acting like a
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  geological crumple zone. The crust takes the
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  hit and just sort of sweats it out. That is a
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  great way to put it. And, you know, it happens
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  on the surface, too. If you look at the Kettle
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  Moraine in Wisconsin, it's covered in these glacial
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  scars. Oh, right. The drumlins and kettles. Exactly.
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  These dense mounds of till, loose gravel, and
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  trapped water left by massive ice sheets. 10
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  ,000 years ago. When seismic waves hit that really
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  uneven, hummocky landscape, the energy just scatters
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  in a million directions. It faces so much resistance
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  from the mixed terrain that it literally dies
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  out. It just transforms into thermal energy.
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  But that dampening mechanism relies heavily on
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  the fact that the Earth is, you know, wet and
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  porous, which makes me wonder how massive bodies
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  of water factor into this whole planetary energy
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  transfer. Well, they're the engine. I mean, take
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  a deep, seemingly calm body of water like Lake
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  Michigan. On the surface, you just see normal
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  wind -driven waves. Right, regular lake stuff.
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  Yeah, but deep underwater, along the thermocline.
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  That boundary between the warm surface and the
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  freezing depths. There are massive invisible
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  waves crashing back and forth. Oh, the internal
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  sieches. Yes. And this hidden rhythm acts as
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  a massive planetary heartbeat. It drives enormous
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  amounts of kinetic energy and turbulent mixing
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  straight down into the solid lake bed. Okay,
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  wait. I really need you to explain this next
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  part from the sources because it honestly sounds
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  completely made up. Let me guess, the micro -seism.
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  Yes. There's this 26 -second micro -seism, basically
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  an acoustic pulse, ringing continuously through
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  the solid Earth. And it's supposedly generated
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  by ocean waves hitting the Bight of Bonney in
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  Africa. I know, it sounds crazy. Like, how can
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  a wave in Africa shake the bedrock under my feet
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  right now? It makes a lot more sense when you
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  stop thinking of the Earth as, like, dry stone.
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  It's actually a highly fluid -saturated porous
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  medium. A physicist named Biat mapped this out.
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  By Ott's theory, right. Right. He showed that
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  wet rock actually carries two separate shock
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  waves. You get a fast wave moving through the
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  solid rock and then a slower wave moving through
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  the water trapped inside it. Ah, so the rock
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  and the water aren't actually moving together?
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  Not at all. And because they're out of sync,
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  when these massive Atlantic waves hit the continental
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  shelf in Africa, they pump acoustic energy directly
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  into this global fluid -soaked matrix. That's
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  incredible. Yeah, the ocean is... quite literally
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  playing the planet's internal water network like
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  a drum. So if this fluid acoustic relationship
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  is dictating the ringing of the solid Earth,
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  does that mean this is like a fundamental rule
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  of physics? Does it apply if we zoom all the
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  way down to the quantum level? It absolutely
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  does. Just look at this bizarre transition metal
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  called niobium germanide. In a normal copper
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  wire, electricity loses energy because electrons
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  crash into the metal's vibrating atoms. The sound
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  waves or phonons, right? Exactly. And that friction
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  creates lost heat. But in niobium germanide,
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  the crystal structure forces the electrons and
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  the sound waves to bind together into a coupled
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  electron -phonon liquid. So instead of fighting
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  through choppy waves of friction, it's almost
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  like a synchronized swimmer catching a kermit.
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  They just share the momentum and glide. Yeah,
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  the electricity essentially turns into a liquid
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  metal. governed by fluid dynamics. And it's wild
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  because if we scale all the way up from quantum
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  wires to the cosmos, I mean, fluid dynamics explains
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  gravity too. Wait, really? How does that work?
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  Through a field called analog gravity. Physicists
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  have proven that the mathematics of accelerating
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  fluids are perfectly identical to the mathematics
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  of curved spacetime. Wait, so fluid math is literally
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  spacetime math? To the letter. I mean, if you
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  accelerate a fluid in a lab until it moves faster
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  than the speed of sound within it, you create
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  what's called an acoustic dumbhole. A dumbhole?
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  Like a black hole, but for sound. Right. Sound
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  waves get trapped behind that barrier, unable
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  to swim upstream against the current. Physicists
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  actually use these fluid tanks to study unreachable
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  black holes. Oh, because the acoustic trap is
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  an exact mathematical stand -in for an event
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  horizon. That is mind blowing. It really is.
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  It completely changes how we view the world.
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  The Earth isn't static at all. You know, it's
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  a breathing, resonating system running on universal
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  code. So for you listening right now, the math
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  governing the rippling water in your bathtub
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  operates on the exact same laws dictating the
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  space time around a collapsing store. Energy
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  just shapeshifts from gravitational bone to oceanic
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  breath to quantum liquid. That's exactly it.
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  And that leaves me with one final kind of crazy
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  thought for you to ponder. If moving fluids perfectly
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  mimic the event horizons of black holes in deep
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  space, well, could the circulating fluids inside
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  our own bodies contain microscopic acoustic horizons?
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  We just haven't learned how to measure yet. Definitely
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  something to think about the next time you check
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  your pulse.