Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34954086-20120922085545/@comment-34954086-20130317115242

Exactly. What happens if you magnetise one half of the chunk one way, the other half facing the other. Same thing that happens when you push two positive ends of magnets together, Seperate outward forcefully. Now apply that omnidirectly or a massive scale with no intervening forces stopping it. Boom. Basically, the Earth is a ball made of firecrackers. You shoot a blowtorch through the centre, they all start going off, the ones around the peak where it goes through to begin with but eventually it all blasts off.

All good though, these things are really fun to do for me and useful for my learning of the material. (in this case, a little refresher on a few things we weren't in Environmental and on a movie I've seen like 4 times. :P)