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Originally posted by stereologist
When it becomes clear that there is no natural explanation for a prediction then invoke a miracle.
People been doing that to shore up failures such as this prediction for as long as there have been people.
What's it going to be after this prediction fails? Is it going to be a failure or is the old mantra of gold works in mysterious ways going to be tossed out?
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by OldCorp
The if won't happen, but suppose that it did well then I certainly would not regress to primitive ways and blame it on the supernatural.
This is GOD we're talking about.....
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by Amaterasu
I saw a show a while back - on History Channel or Discovery or...I can't remember - where a geologist was pointing out how the magnetic poles had shifted because of some magnetically sensitive stuff that on one layer pointed north, and then pointed south in some soil sample.
The same thing is seen on the ocean floor where new ocean bottom produced at the spreading ridges shows the current magnetic orientation and older floor shows older orientations.
This study, which is recent, shows a model predicting that the dynamics of the core can lead to reversals. It also suggests that reversals could be as short as a thousand years.
Notice that many pseudosciences make claims about sudden magnetic reversals as in a year or less or even a few days. This model suggests that reversals are not that fast.
Thanks for posting the links.
Originally posted by Julie Washington
Originally posted by Kalki11
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
Originally posted by OldCorp
Just out of curiosity my friend, if the entire world were plunged into total darkness - no sun, no Moon, no stars - for three days, and the best scientists in the world had no explanation for it... what would you call it? At the very least, you would have to call it supernatural if not Divine in nature.
Most welcome for the links, and I never suggested that magnetic polar reversals would be over the course of one day... (I suggested that perhaps the magnetic field of the galaxy would affect the orientation of the core. You covered why that might not be the issue I originally suggested.) In fact, We have been seeing for a while now a weakening of the Earth's magnetic field, as is suggested happens when the shift is immanent. It is likely in the process now of shifting.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by Amaterasu
Most welcome for the links, and I never suggested that magnetic polar reversals would be over the course of one day... (I suggested that perhaps the magnetic field of the galaxy would affect the orientation of the core. You covered why that might not be the issue I originally suggested.) In fact, We have been seeing for a while now a weakening of the Earth's magnetic field, as is suggested happens when the shift is immanent. It is likely in the process now of shifting.
Right. In fact, the strength of the Earth's magnetic field has been decreasing ever since it was first measured by Gauss. It is likely we are about to see a reversal take place, but as you saw in the write up about the modeling the events leading to a reversal are not well known. Thanks makes it hard to say when a reversal will happen. There are also times when the field is unstable, but does not reverse.