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Originally Posted by Fram
Strawman! Oceans of the earth have nothing to do with this!
Seriously, the oceans are the hottest at the side they are warmed, i.e the top (I'm making abstraction of underwater volcanoes of course). The silicon layer would be heated from the bottom to the top and cooled from the top to the bottom, and thus should be hot at the bottom and cooler at the top, not the other way around.
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I disagree. The hot silicon will rise to the neon layer and be cooled and then sink to the bottom again to pick up more heat from the calcium layer and continue the cycle. The heated silicon is always going to rise up against the neon to release it's heat into the neon. The cooler silicon will likely sink as soon as the heat is removed.
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Warm air climbs, but if you put your heating in the floor and your cooling in the roof, the roof will be cooler than the floor.
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Cool air will sink regardless of whether it comes from the floor or the ceiling. Hot air will rise regardless of wether it comes from the floor or the ceiling.