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Originally posted by Ethericplane
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All of this seems eminently possible, to me. I am curious to know what others think about this possibility. The disintegrating magnetosphere graphs we see every day only lessen the amount of energy the sun would need to flip the mag-poles of our Earth.
The rotation reversal scenario is simple, with just 7 steps.
1) The Sun gets energized (from the million degree cloud)
2) The sun gets agitated to release energy
3) The earth gets blasted with over 100x our magnetosphere's energy
4) The magnetic poles flip, (but not the rotational poles, yet ….)
5) The corkscrew rule, or effect, that presumably runs down the Earth’s axis and turns the Earth (CCW in relation to the sun) would then reverse rotation. This would, of course, start braking the current counter clockwise rotation and gradually slow the earth's spin over the coming weeks or months.
6) The Earth stops, staggers like a drunk for a short time, and at this point the rotation axis may align with the new magnetic axis, its hard to predict.
7) The Earth finally starts rotating by the now reversed corkscrew effect, until the Sun rises in the West.
This may not sound too damaging to our world, but consider this:
1) The initial sun blast (CME or EMP) would probably shortout the entire electrical grid and everything that rests upon it, including cars, planes, communications, water pumps, gas pumps, lights, and refrigeration, etc.
See Part II
It is if you belive whack jobs interpreting ancient prophecies are the driving force of the universe and not the laws of physics
Originally posted by theability
Wow and uhh, yeah right.
There is no way the sun is going to stop the earths rotation after it has been in motion for 4.5 billions years.
Unless in goes super NOVA and destroys the planet.
Originally posted by lpowell0627
reply to post by theability
Except for the fact that it wouldn't be the first time.
There are ancient texts that refer to the sun rising in the west.
Originally posted by Ethericplane
All of this seems eminently possible, to me. I am curious to know what others think about this possibility. The disintegrating magnetosphere graphs we see every day only lessen the amount of energy the sun would need to flip the mag-poles of our Earth.
It is if you believe whack jobs interpreting ancient prophecies are the driving force of the universe and not the laws of physics.
Except for the fact that it wouldn't be the first time.
There are ancient texts that refer to the sun rising in the west.
Originally posted by Brother Stormhammer
Originally posted by lpowell0627
reply to post by theability
Except for the fact that it wouldn't be the first time.
There are ancient texts that refer to the sun rising in the west.
Care to post some documentation for that claim?
The magical Papyrus Harris speaks of a colossal catastrophe of fire and water when "the North becomes the South". Plato wrote about this in "Politicus":
"In certain periods, the universe has its present rotating movement and in other periods it turns in the opposite direction… Of all the changes that take place in the sky, this reversal is the biggest and the most complete."
Should you want to change the poles of a dynamo, you would have to change its direction of rotation! Expanding this principle, the earth also has to change its direction when the North Pole becomes the South Pole! So here we find a scientific proof for polar reversals. It correlates completely with the statement of the Old Egyptians on this subject: after every pole reversal the sun rose from the opposite direction.
The historical exploration of cosmology in previous books is founded on the translation of hieroglyphs, cracking of codes, unveiling of the magnetic reversal of the sun, study of old maps, decoding of astronomical clues, geological research, and the discovery of the most exciting archaeological find in modern times.
Considering these, I came to the following conclusions:
- With clock-like regularity, sudden reversals and pole shifts are natural to the Earth. The result is worldwide destruction, and is supported by paleo-magnetic evidence and early manuscripts.
- The reversal of the poles is attributed to the harmonic cycle of the magnetic fields of the sun.
- Polar reversals can be calculated precisely on the basis of the sunspot cycle theory or the magnetic field theory, which the Maya and the Old Egyptians were privy to. These secrets are contained in the Labyrinth of Hawara, a huge complex consisting of three thousand rooms.
Originally posted by theability
There is no truth to those documents, it is absurd to think that something like that could happen.
Originally posted by stereologist
Furthermore, the only possible pole shift is dated to have been around 800 million years ago. That shift took millions of years to complete.
The source of the magnetic field is the iron-rich liquid outer core of the Earth. This liquid moves in complex ways as a result of the convection of the heat deep within the core and of the rotation of the planet. The motion of the core fluid is continuous and never stops, even during a reversal.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by lpowell0627
Yeah. The "ancients" talked about the Sun being dragged across the sky by horses too.
The Earth's magnetic field is not caused by its rotation. It is caused by the movement of the fluid outer core. Changes in that movement cause changes in the magnetic field. The field is changing all the time without any change in the Earth's rotation.
The reversals of Earth's magnetic field are not "clock-like", nor are they sudden. They have occurred at highly irregular intervals (the last was 750,000 years ago) and take thousands of years to complete.
Except for the fact that it wouldn't be the first time.