What If the Earth Had No Core?

Deep under the crust and mantle of our Earth lies its core. Earth’s core was formed during the Iron Catastrophe, a major geological event where Earth was heated to temperatures above iron’s melting point. Would a coreless Earth even be sustainable? Could humans live on an Earth with no core? And what kind of environment would we see on this type of Earth?

00:00 Earth with no core
00:52 Where is the core?
02:08 Thanks, Upstart!
03:23 Planet formation
04:31 Magnetic field
05:50 Desert Earth?

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[thealextrifier]

If the earth had no core, we’d be able to go on a journey to the center of the earth just like Brendan Fraser & Josh Hutcherson & Anita Briem 😅

[mamajune]

What If makes videos on random topics so interesting. Appreciate the hard work 👍

[saravanansakthivel]

I really missed the “What if” channel’s space videos. Thank you for this video, I expect more videos about galaxy and universe like this one!

[Geo-Fizix]

I like your line saying "here is what if'

[minhwin]

Love the visual effects, the background sound, the narrator voice, and the storyline. Everything is absolutely perfect. This is a great episode.

[satzrach]

I need a video on this
What if all the greatest scientific minds lived in the same time period like (Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Hawking)

[jalapenoandbanana]

Knowing more about the earth's core is something I'm interested about

[DaYungBoss]

What If: could you imagine a Galaxy without any other stars video coming soon but I love all your videos I been learning so much now I'm into science and watch nothing but Space shows trying to learn more

[shadowmonarch]

What if a present gen teenager or an adult went back to prehistoric age.Could we make any of these present day technology using the help of nature from scratch

[carlossantiago]

Is this the guy of the voice from WhatIf?!?😄 it’s like when I found out who the voice was from Planet Earth or Marshmallow 😎

[sammygrant]

Earth: oh no I’m turning into mercury
All humans: let’s go to mars and make a atmosphere

[steinbeats]

Huge shout out to the guy engineering the audio mix, clean🔥🔥🔥

[manishthakur]

Your video is very educational and help lots in study
Keep it up 😍😌

[ruairi]

The title sounds like a killer rock song

[sugarcanesugarhigh]

This channel teaches me more and better stuff than my own teacher(s) can

[aaronjudgeglazer]

How to survive earth without core: Be the camera man

Edit: thx What If for highlighting my comment

[tannerwimer]

I got a good video idea, and I’m kinda hoping people would wonder the same thing once they saw my question. What if everyone heated the out side during the winter?

[TheSpeedReaper]

If Earth had no core: Hollow Earth, where Kong will find his heritage.

[uncockblockable]

Honestly this video would absolutely amaze me if it didn’t depress me even more. Here we are, on this truly one-of-a-kind planet for which we have yet to see any signs of existence of a similar planet anywhere in the university, when the odds of us being living inhabitants of this planet are smaller than the human mind can even begin to comprehend when you consider the rest of the universe. The only habitable planet known to man and we treat it like absolute garbage.

[TheOrigamiGenius]

Your what if ideas are getting so creative. Keep up the good work!