A Space Oddessey 2061 Book 3 Chapter 56: Perturbation Theory PART VII: THE GREAT WALL

A Space Oddessey 2061 Book 3 Chapter 56: Perturbation Theory PART VII: THE GREAT WALL

From: Professor Paul Kreuger, FRS, etc. To: The Editor, NATURE Data Bank (Public access) Subject: MOUNT ZEUS AND JOVIAN DIAMONDS As is now well understood, the Europan formation known as 'Mount Zeus' was originally part of Jupiter. The suggestion that the cores of the gas giants might consist of diamond was first made by Marvin Ross of the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a classic paper 'The ice layer in Uranus and Neptune - diamonds in the sky?' (Nature, Vol 292, No. 5822, pp. 435-6, 30 July 1981). Surprisingly, Ross did not extend his calculations to Jupiter. The sinking of Mount Zeus has produced a veritable chorus of lamentations, all of which are totally ridiculous - for the reasons given below. Without going into details, which will be presented in a later communication, I estimate that the diamond core of Jupiter must have had an original mass of at least 10^28 grams. This is ten billion times that of Mount Zeus. Although much of th…