How does scientists know earth has a solid core surrounded by mantle when we have never dug so deep? How do that happens when IMO 12 km is the deepest we have dug?

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How does scientists know earth has a solid core surrounded by mantle when we have never dug so deep? How do that happens when IMO 12 km is the deepest we have dug?

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They did calculations on the speed of sound in various material phases of the most probable matter at given locations, and study the waves from earthquakes and how they propagate through the different media, and noticed waves bounce off of a phase contrast boundary layer.

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