8 Hollywood Blockbusters That Are Guilty Of BS Science

2. Pretty Much Everything Is Made Up - The Core

To The Core's eternal credit it explains the Earth's magnetic field and the interior nature of the Earth pretty well - these are hardly subjects well known to your average movie goer, and since we have only begun learning anything substantive about the Earth's interior relatively recently, it should be applauded for that. It's not a very good film, obviously, but at least you can learn something from it - like how not to ruin the potential offered by a brilliant cast, for instance. But Wait... All things considered, the film gets a whole lot badly wrong, to the point that it seems what the writers didn't know, they simply made up. When the ship sending the scientists to the Earth's core breaks down in some sort of diamond-filled cavern half-way towards the centre of the Earth you'd be right to raise an eyebrow. Even if there was a cave randomly inserted into the mantle (and there couldn't be), amethyst cannot survive the temperatures of 9000c that would be bubbling away there. Therefore, while the scene might look pretty, it's totally impossible. Also, the idea that a nuclear bomb could somehow restart the Earth's core, or that modern day technology could create a ship capable of travelling beyond the Earth's core is pure nonsense. The furthest we have drilled into the Earth so far is a mere 12km So that's just another 6000km to go, then.