Tuesday, November 24, 2015

[mjqyawgs] Liquid planet

What would a planet with a much deeper ocean be like?  Perhaps entirely composed of water all the way to the core.  Simulate the ocean currents and waves.  For waves, we also need to specify an atmosphere.

Under high pressure, water might become exotic phases not seen on earth.  Are there other materials which a liquid planet could be composed of that are physically or chemically more interesting than water?

Perhaps add a core emitting heat via radioactive decay (in addition to solar radiation heating the surface.)

It would be also interesting to have landmasses to cause interactions between land, air, and sea.  However the shape of the solid portion of the planet with such a deep sea would be preposterous, maybe spiny or a lattice.  Or maybe the landmasses float.

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