The Core (2003)

Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

The Core keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, survival, coordination, politics.