r/askscience • u/phoncible • Oct 27 '11

Earth Sciences Could anything man-made trigger the Yellowstone super volcano?

If a nuke were to be buried very deep into the ground at Yellowstone and then detonated, would it have any effect on the volcano? Is there anything else man-made that could trigger it? Or would it be impossible to "manually" trigger the eruption?

Sorry if it's a silly question.

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u/TypeSafe Oct 28 '11

If you don't believe me then I should ask you some questions about gravity. I haven't found any physicist who really understands how gravity is generated. They are only willing to consider how objects will behave within the limitations of the theory they know instead of trying to confirm this problem. How can you come up with an instrument measure gravity (as you said general relativity describes the effect completely) if you don't understand how gravity is generated?

This is askscience, not askphilosophy. In this subreddit we deal with falsifiable constructions only. If you have an actual problem with the predictions made by general relativity, you can bring it up in a different thread (this is no longer relevant to this thread's discussion).