This film frequently makes top 10 lists of "most scientifically unrealistic movies ever", and has even lead to scientific publications deriding its inaccurate portrayal of physics. Multiple scientists have taken issue with a number of plot elements: Earth's atmosphere wouldn't disappear within a year after the core stops rotating; a small EMP device cannot stop the core's rotation, no more than a fan can dissolve a thunderstorm; birds can also migrate without the Earth's magnetic field; sending messages from the Earth's core to the surface would be impossible since the signal would have to penetrate 4000 miles of rock; the magnetic field would disappear everywhere at equal rate, so there wouldn't be "holes" without magnetism at certain places; Earth's magnetic field dissipating wouldn't cause solar microwave radiation strong enough to melt the Golden Gate Bridge (the rest of the atmosphere still provides protection); even if it could, it would melt cars long before it would melt the bridge; cavities and intact amethyst crystals thousand miles below the surface would be impossible, as the intense pressure there would crush both, and diamonds cannot be there since there is no carbon in the Earth's mantle; people can't walk around a few minutes in a 9000 °F environment, they would instantly burn to a crisp; no ship can convert heat into energy to propel itself away from a nuclear blast; there is no space between two tectonic plates to escape through near Hawaii, as the island is situated in the middle of a plate, not on the edge.
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05-03-2025 alle ore 08:44