And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
( Luke 16:26 ) KJV
This post is part of the WHY? daily devotional for September
The popular science “liquid outer core” is speculative at best, and there is no reason why it can’t be open space. The P-wave Shadow Zone is the great gulf of which Jesus spoke in Luke 16:26.