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What If Earth's Magnetic Poles Flip?

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What if a ‘pole flip’ were to occur in your lifetime? What might you expect (aside from a lot of ‘OMG!’ and ‘WTF’)?

From Dateline Zero

Pole reversals have happened before. In fact, according to NASA, the “Earth’s magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia.”

So what would happen if your compass suddenly flipped, showing magnetic north being in the south? Would the Moon freeze and the plants all die? Would some phantom planet smash into ours? Would the toilet water swirl the opposite direction every time you flush?

Natalie Wolchover has an article up about this atLife’s Little Mysteries. It seems that the before and after wouldn’t be a big deal; but the in-between phases would be a little difficult for us.

“The most dramatic changes that occur when the poles reverse is a very large decrease of the total field intensity,” said Jean-Pierre Valet, who conducts research on geomagnetic reversals at the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris.

Earth’s magnetic field takes between 1,000 and 10,000 years to reverse, and in the process, it greatly diminishes before it re-aligns. “It’s not a sudden flip, but a slow process, during which the field strength becomes weak, very probably the field becomes more complex and might show more than two poles for a while, and then builds up in strength and [aligns] in the opposite direction,” said Monika Korte, the scientific director of the Niemegk Geomagnetic Observatory at GFZ Potsdam in Germany.

According to John Tarduno, professor of geophysics at the University of Rochester, a strong magnetic field helps protect Earth from blasts of radiation from the sun. “Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occasionally occur on the Sun, and sometimes hurtle directly toward Earth,” Tarduno said. “Some of the particles associated with CMEs can be blocked by Earth’s magnetic field. With a weak field, this shielding is less efficient.”

Note that “pole flip” is is different than “pole shift.” Pole shift is about a rapid shifts in the relative positions of the poles, as well as the axis of rotation of the Earth…

More, at the original post at Dateline Zero



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    • Pix

      As it’s happened many times in the past, it shows that it doesn’t cause an ELE event. Evidenced by the abundant life on Earth. If it was that destructive there wouldn’t be any. :)

    • oladyinashu

      The LORD’s Judgment on the Earth
      1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
      2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
      3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
      4 ¶ The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
      5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
      6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
      7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
      8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
      9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
      10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
      11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
      12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
      13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
      14 ¶ They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
      15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
      16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
      17 ¶ Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
      18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
      19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
      20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
      21 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
      22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
      23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

      Published by The American Bible Society

      CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

      Isaiah 23 Isaiah 25

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