Re: [CTRL] Could the Poles Flip?

[magnetic field]

 I have been 
thinking on this subject since 1972.
 Can the poles 
flip  
try in our life time. 
My own theory.. What scientists call a 
ice age is just the ice cap breaking down and re-forming 
elsewhere. 
 What triggers 
this I am not sureI am still thinking about this. When I come up 
with a theory I will post it. 
 Immanuel 
Velikovsky had some interesting theories on this subject as well as other 
people. He said it was possible to have "mini reversals". He was sure these had 
indeed happened in historic time and the man and animal life has been deeply 
affected by them. He considered the fact that many of the life forms destroyed 
in catastrophies were more physically adapted to survive than the creatures that 
replaced them. In other words, there was nothing wrong with the animals, they 
were just SUDDENLY WIPE OUT. Take the mastedons for instance. Scientists found 
undigested plants in their stomachs and between their teeth. Plants that now 
grow nowhere near where the animals died (like currently hundreds of miles 
away). They died and were flash frozen in the blink of an eye (as they did not 
have time to putrify or decay). It is said that sled dogs ate the meat with no 
problems. 
 
Take fossils for instance. There are no new fossild being made. The majority of 
plants and animals died and rot and are gone in days. Fossils formed under great 
heat and stress causing the plants and/or animals to die and be covered up so 
quickly and under such heat that they just got sealed and fossilized. Another 
subject Dr. Velikovsky tackled was the idea of where petroleum came from. Or 
coal either for that matter. Coal and oil where created under great stress and 
heat. What caused the great fift valley in Africa for instance. where 
the earth looks like alarge tennis ball that some giant twisted until the 
surface cracked and tore. Look at a geological (surface feature map). The Andes 
Mountains and the Himalayas have been thrust up higher in historic times. Dr. 
Velikovsky had the personal opinion the the time frame of history is all wrong. 
That many old religious documents including the Old Testament are recordings of 
such events. Look at the east coast of the United States around the Carolinas 
especially, there are a series of "blue holes" out in the ocean and depressions 
all along the U.S. east coast that look like a train of meteorites had rained in 
a path left to right. 
 Has the sun always 
risen in the east and set in the west Not according to many ancient 
documents and legends. In one of the pyramids is a mural of the sky the way it 
would look if if the sun rose in the west and set in the east. It was considered 
very sacred. Ancient temples were always oriented to the sun rising on the 
solstice. That is the main reason temples were abandoned and rebuilt. The old 
testament temple was even rebuilt for this reason. The day has not always been 
24 hours long. The year has not always been 365 days long. Historically this is 
a "recent" occurance. What we read in the Old Testament is a historical record 
of earth changes (the exodus for instance). Why does the Old testament insist on 
stating "in the east at the sun's rising" if this were not something different 
or out of the ordinary
 
Yes...The earth would survive a pole shift. The planet would survive and 
quite possibly the creatures on it. 
 
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  William Shannon 
  
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  Subject: [CTRL] Could the Poles 
  Flip?
  http://www.earthfiles.com/earth339.htmEarth's 
  Magnetic Anomalies - Could the Poles Flip?by Linda Moulton 
  HoweApril 27, 2002 Cambridge, Massachusetts - Deep beneath 
  our feet as we walk around  in fact, 4,000 miles down  is the center 
  of the earth where an iron core is so hot it is liquid and boils around like 
  cooking porridge. That moving, melted iron also produces the magnetic fields 
  that surround the earth and upon which much of earth's surface life, 
  satellites and space technology depend upon for orientation, and for 
  protection. If magnetic fields did not trap highly energetic particles racing 
  from the sun, all kinds of damage could be done to living organisms and space 
  technologies. For nearly a million years, magnetic field lines have been 
  coming out of the south pole and entering the north pole of the earth. That is 
  called the magnetic dipole.Now a science team from Paris, France led 
  by Gauthier Hulot at the Institute of Earth Sciences in Paris - working with 
  other scientists such as Harvard University's magnetic field expert, Dr. 
  Jeremy Bloxham - have compared satellite measurements of the earth's magnetic 
  field strengths 25 years ago and today. Their discovery was published in the 
  April 2002 

[CTRL] Could the Poles Flip?

[William Shannon]

http://www.earthfiles.com/earth339.htm



Earth's Magnetic Anomalies - 
Could the Poles Flip?

by Linda Moulton Howe

April 27, 2002 Cambridge, Massachusetts - Deep beneath our feet as we walk around ­ in fact, 4,000 miles down ­ is the center of the earth where an iron core is so hot it is liquid and boils around like cooking porridge. That moving, melted iron also produces the magnetic fields that surround the earth and upon which much of earth's surface life, satellites and space technology depend upon for orientation, and for protection. If magnetic fields did not trap highly energetic particles racing from the sun, all kinds of damage could be done to living organisms and space technologies. For nearly a million years, magnetic field lines have been coming out of the south pole and entering the north pole of the earth. That is called the magnetic dipole.

Now a science team from Paris, France led by Gauthier Hulot at the Institute of Earth Sciences in Paris - working with other scientists such as Harvard University's magnetic field expert, Dr. Jeremy Bloxham - have compared satellite measurements of the earth's magnetic field strengths 25 years ago and today. Their discovery was published in the April 2002 science journal Nature and it boils down to this: there are strange and not very well understood variations now in the earth's magnetic field. In fact, down in South Africa there is a large region that already has a magnetic field pointing in the opposite direction from the rest of the earth's field and is getting stronger all the time, according to new satellite data.

Further, the north and south pole magnetic fields have weakened in strength by about 10% of what they were. If the South African region continues to get stronger and the poles keep weakening, scientists think that within the next millennia, the pole magnetic fields could disappear altogether, or flip so the magnetic field lines would leave the north pole and enter the south pole. Meanwhile, could magnetic field anomalies and changes in strengths and geographical locations persist during a transition period to an unknown outcome?

Based on ancient rock studies, geophysicists can say that such a situation happens three or four times every million years. There can even be a period when there are many magnetic poles all over the planet, not just at the poles. But no one knows for certain what the implications are for earth life and technology because it hasn't happened since 780,000 years ago.

Recently, I talked with Dr. Bloxham's graduate assistant, Mathieu Dumberry from Canada, who specializes in the dynamics of the earth's iron core. I asked him if the last time a pole reversal occurred was nearly a million years ago, wouldn't that mean current surface life, including humans and geophysicists, have no idea what actually happens if the poles reverse? 


Interviews  Mathieu Dumberry, Graduate Assistant to Prof. Jeremy Bloxham, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: "That's correct. The consequences for human life, in terms of what the actual exact sort of strength decrease in the overall magnetic field is and in terms of what the consequences are for the solar particles that are trapped in the magnetic field of the earth is, we don't really have a good idea on that.

The magnetosphere plays such a strange and mysterious, but important role between the ionosphere, outer space and here on the earth. There are aurora borealis and all kinds of magnetic field effects. If the North and South poles suddenly changed and the magnetic fields were coming out of the North Pole and entering the South Pole, wouldn't you think there might be some dramatic effects on earth life?

I think the most dramatic effects might occur during the reversal ­ that is when the strength of the dipole field is going to be the weakest. Because if the dipole is oriented one way or another in terms ­ I'm thinking in terms of the solar particles that are trapped in the magnetic field ­ therefore, don't reach the surface of the earth. These sort of high energy particles could be damaging to life on the earth. If these particles are trapped by the fields, they don't reach the surface.

However, if the strength of the dipole field decreases, then the ability of the magnetic field to stop these highly energetic particles is weakened. And so this might have an affect on life.

But, as I said earlier, 780,000 years ago when it happened, of course, we did not have human society as we have now today, but the creatures that lived then in terms of humans and other animals have survived.

Some have. But there have been periods of unexplained extinctions in the history of the earth. If I understand what you are saying, strong solar particles could be able to reach the surface of the earth uninterrupted by strong magnetic fields as they are deflected today. Such energetic particles reaching the surface of the earth unimpeded