JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post

What a great running title this is: “The Earth a vast bombshell”!  It appears in a section on earthquakes and volcanoes in a popular series by Dionysius Lardner’s The Museum of Science and Art (vols III & IV). Lardner reaches this conclusion after reasoning that if the increase in temperature of the earth increases as it seems to that at the dept of 40 miles the Earth would have a temperature of 4000⁰, increasing 1 degree fir every fifty feet of depth, “or 100⁰ per mile”.  And so at these temperatures it must be so that most of the interior of the Earth would be “liquid fire” which “must extend to the very centre of the globe…”

The accompanying picture shows a cross section of the Earth, “the thickness of its shell being in the proportion…will be represented by a black line”, everything else being the lake of fire. 

“It is no rhetorical exaggeration, then, to affirm that the globe we live on is a stupendous by very thin bombshell charged with liquid fire!”

• “As cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” –Revelation 20:10
• “Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.”—Revelation 20:10-14

“Love is a burning thing, And it makes a fiery ring, Bound by wild desire, I fell in to a ring of fire.

I fell in to a burning ring of fire, I went down, down, down

And the flames went higher

And it burns, burns, burns

The ring of fire

The ring of fire.”–Johnny Cash, “Ring of Fire”.