posted on Mar, 30 2011 @ 02:58 PM
reply to post by FOXMULDER147
And me, of course
People keep looking at the outer portion of the magnetosphere, pointing to irregularities, and shouting "Look, I've found the pole shift!" They
really need to stop doing that. The field lines that extend off the central spheroid should be ignored by people who don't know what they're looking
at. Solar wind is a great distorter of this part of the field, and it often looks a little freaky (which explains all of the threads that exist that
claim the field looks a little freaky), but there is no direct connection between the appearance of the outer field lines and any shifting of the
poles.
What people should be paying attention to (if they're going to pay attention to anything at all) should be that ball-like clump at the center. The
field lines that extend from this are subject to the solar wind and much variation, but the field lines that comprise the inner spheroid represent the
field as it's being generated by the Earth, within the Earth. If you see clumps of blue field lines forming in the south, and/or clumps of red lines
in the north, to the point which these lines start enveloping the poles, then you might have a reason to start a thread claiming that something is
wrong with the magnetic field. And, even then, it should be accompanied by a decrease in field line density at the center.
Trust me, if something is truly "wrong" with the magnetic field, Phage will likely be the first to point it out... assuming this
simulation
actually decides to display it.
People who don't understand what they're looking at should either learn to understand what they're looking at or stop looking at it.