It may be frigid on the inside.
To understand the inner nature of Venus, you need to understand the Big Whisper approach to building planets from scratch. In the common view, planets are the aggregates of matter, pulled together by gravity. In the Big Whisper view, however, something more is going on.
With following the Big Whisper approach, Venus has a couple of surprises in store for us.
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We know that all matter in the universe is on the move, but it may not be common knowledge that this is not a singular motion, but based on various motions occurring at the same time. Take planet Earth as it exists today:
- Mass and spin (gravity based)
- Revolution around the sun (gravity based)
- Dancing along in the circular movement of the Milky Way (gravity based)
- Speeding away in a singular direction with the Milky Way
This Fourth Motion is not based on gravity, but on the initial catapulting action of the materialization process. This happens to be the fastest motion we are involved in.
Let’s go back 4.6+ billion years ago when the proto Solar System started to form. The fastest motion is that singular direction away from where it all began many billion years prior.
This collective on the move contains a variety of swirls in it. The entire collective was involved in a circular motion. On top of that motion, there were smaller swirls, right in the spots where the planets would appear.
- The beauty of swirls is that whatever falls into the center is basically stuck in that center. All matter within the swirl is twirling around, but all that touched the center got stuck there because the center does not swirl. The center is a dead-zone, so to speak. It is the spot with the least action going on in the swirl.
Some materials in the swirl were twirling far more than other materials, for instance, because they were lighter. The chance to touch the dead-zone and then getting stuck there is greatest for the really light stuff or for the more strangely shaped parts that got pushed and shoved the most by the twirling action.
Slowly but surely there is a build-up of matter in that center. And from that moment on gravity plays along as well.
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To understand Venus, we can start out with Venus and Earth being built-up the same way. Specific layers of matter got deposited in the dead-zone of the swirl, and then gravity pulls in more and more material.
- The difference between the common view and the Big Whisper approach on how planets accumulated matter is that, instead of gravity pulling all together, a stratified formation of matter occurred with layers of distinct materials.
With every move and shake of the proto-planet, these materials ended up moving either up-and-out if they are lightweight, or down-and-in if they are heavy. We know from planet Earth that the center contains the heaviest metals and we find the lightest materials, gases, on the outside. At first, however, gases were found in the interior.
That is how Venus started out, too, just like planet Earth, moving and shaking and reorganizing itself. Yet that is not where it ended up for Venus.
An important difference between Venus and Earth is the length of a day. On Earth, a day lasts 24 hours. On Venus, a day lasts 2,808 hours. Let’s assume this was the case from the beginning (not necessarily so, but it is easier to tell the story this way).
While Venus is reorganizing itself internally, the heat of the Sun kicks in and starts to bake this planet. Since it does not rotate all that quickly, the Sun bakes Venus to a crisp like a chicken on a rotisserie rod.
That heat caused the original outer layers of Venus to be baked in place. Let’s envision this as the outer ten or fifteen percent of the planet. It got baked and baked and baked.
While heat penetrated the planet further, the heat bumped into layers of silicate, oxygen and water, materials that have insulating qualities. That would then form a temperature barrier. Less heat ended up penetrating the deeper interior of the planet. The interior would end up cooling off, while the exterior layers of the planet had been baked in place, solidifying the insulating barriers.
Because Venus had not been able to successfully complete its cycle of internal reorganization, we get a truly different outcome compared to planet Earth.
Venus ended up with two distinct temperature systems. The outer layers of the planet would absorb the heat of the Sun and end up establishing a rather hot Greenhouse climate. These layers are part of what we know and suspect about Venus’ hot atmosphere and surface.
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The first surprise is then that the interior of Venus will be much cooler than suspected, frigid perhaps even, when a barrier got established that did not conduct heat toward the interior. This planet got baked, literally. But unlike the rotisserie chicken that is made of meat and bones, we have a striated reality in which we bump at some point into poor conductivity. The outside is well-done, blackened, and the inside is rather raw.
Given Venus’ basic facts, an interior temperature barrier is more logical than not having that barrier be present.
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There is another surprise, because the specific materials could have (easily) been such that geodetic features would exist in the interior of Venus. In this setting, it is possible to discuss a hollow to Venus.
This cavity should not be envisioned as one perfect geode, crystals and all, presenting us a humongous large inner space. It would likely be more a mix of interior spaces, all based on the variety of materials that are found in that interior setting. Naturally, certain geodes will be large.
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One final surprise awaits us because this setup would make it possible for Life to be present if this is indeed the story that correctly describes what happened to Venus. It would not be Life on the surface, and also not anywhere until the conduction barrier is reached and crossed. Yet underneath the barrier, all ingredients for Life would likely be present. It would be cold, but it would have Life-sustainable temperatures.
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What we know about Venus:
- One day equals 117 Earth days
- Early divergence from Earth in evolution
- No mantle degassing, meaning an early shutdown of major magnetism, and likely these gasses are found in abundance still in the interior
- Surface craters in pristine condition
- No plate tectonics
- Suspected of having heat buildup and a potential recycling of the crust as result
We know much about the outer realities of Venus, including what may be happening with some of the outer layers right underneath the surface. Yet the inside of Venus may truly be a surprise.
