The truly fascinating part of this is how FeO is a conductor at these temperatures and pressures, but ceases to be so when the temperature or pressure drops. So for you computational physics students out there, consider the effects of a current in a moving current where the conductivity is determined by temperature and pressure. That is a simulation that has to take into account the thermodynamics of heat transfer out of the core, the temperature changing effects of constricting magnetic fields, and the effects of shock waves in a fluid in motion.
Basically we don't have the science to describe the behavior of a planetary core made up of this type of material! Is that cool or what.
Basically we don't have the science to describe the behavior of a planetary core made up of this type of material! Is that cool or what.