Please make sure your audience knows that there is no way to predict these pole reversals, so it is impossible for someone to say that it won't happen. Pole reversals are completely random in nature at the time because no one can solve the Geodynamo problem. As soon as that happens, maybe someone could find a pattern. Until then, leave Pole reversals alone.
We can't predict when one will happen… but we can say that they don't happen in short time frames, and we can also say that there are certain prerequisite conditions (such as the overall field strength) that are not met currently.
In short, I can't point to a calendar and say "pole shift occurs here". I can say "there is no chance of a magnetic pole shift in the near future".
"Do you ever think about things you do think about?" - Henry Drummond to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind
I thought it takes thousands of years for that to happend?
I thought it takes thousands of years for that to happend?
Correct.
There's no way to predict when it will rain. But if I look all around and see a completely cloud-free sky and someone tells me it will rain in one minute, I will tell them they are wrong. In the same way that clouds are a prerequisite for rain, a low magnetic field strength for the Earth is the prerequisite for a magnetic pole reversal. The field strength will not be sufficiently low for at least several centuries.
it says it happens over several hundred YEARS not days
What about it?
Let's just look at the part most people would be interested to look at:
Even if it was a super-fast flip-flop, however, it would not be noticeable to most people.
I would have thought most people would be interested with the headline, and then not read anything that comes below it… isn't that what most people do?
I guess if you look at mainstream news sources only:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/07/5787088-pole-shift-forces-airport-makeover
If you looked at mainstream news sources only, you'd be introducing bias into your research. Science is all about removing that bias, establishing the facts, testing the hypothesis, rather than grabbing a nice soundbite for the audience.
Looks like Truthseeker has returned for a new round of trolling, before crawling back under his rock for a few months.
I guess if you look at mainstream news sources only:
You are aware that the earth's poles move constantly, yes? Often they move significantly, without undergoing anything even resembling a geomagnetic reversal.
The term "pole shift" is used very broadly in that article, and I think even you can recognize that.
Pole shift is already underway, they had to renumber a runway in FL because of it.
Old news, this post is probably the most succinct post about it on these boards.
I'll borrow a term from Neal Stephenson and just call bulshytt.
Linking to the YouTube channel of a conspiracy proponent (presumably you) is not an argument.
Hey, are you the same guy who went bananas over the fake "Hellion 1957" craze a while back, along with VonHelton and the other YT usual suspects? Man, I see you didn't learn anything from that….
Let's see what happens today, since apparently Web.Bot says something will happen! :O
I do concur with the general notion that doomsdays are generally NOT predictable, but your article on magnetic pole shift has left me with the following impressions:
The Geodynamo is a pure fabrication, (reminds me of Rube Goldberg creation.)
You are in error to say the sun plays no role in this. I suspect it is because it dosen't fit your silly machine…the sun has a major impact in earth's magnetic field and ignoring it is like ignoring a 300 pound gorilla sharing the room with you. This quote from you "The Earth's magnetic field is not determined by exterior forces, such as the magnetic field of the Sun, or of any other object." is ludicrous.
And stateing that magnetic polar shifts are (normally) gradual and major ones are pre-ancient is intended to impose a bloated and hackneyed geological time table. There is ample geological evidence to the contrary.
Lastly - the remark that we have not had increased techtonic activity, I'm wondering if we are on the same planet, perhaps a trip to Indonesia, Malaysia or Chile would help your perspective.
The Geodynamo is a pure fabrication,
Baseless Assertion #1.
You are in error to say the sun plays no role in this. I suspect it is because it dosen't fit your silly machine…
Baseless Assertion #2.
the sun has a major impact in earth's magnetic field and ignoring it is like ignoring a 300 pound gorilla sharing the room with you.
Straw-man fallacy.
This quote from you "The Earth's magnetic field is not determined by exterior forces, such as the magnetic field of the Sun, or of any other object." is ludicrous.
Baseless Assertion #3, I suspect stemming from Baseless Assertions #1 and #2.
And stateing that magnetic polar shifts are (normally) gradual and major ones are pre-ancient is intended to impose a bloated and hackneyed geological time table. There is ample geological evidence to the contrary.
Baseless Assertion #4.
Lastly - the remark that we have not had increased techtonic activity, I'm wondering if we are on the same planet, perhaps a trip to Indonesia, Malaysia or Chile would help your perspective.
Perhaps a trip to the USGS website would help yours.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/?showAll=yes
Was there an actual point to your post, or is this another hit-and-run?
The Geodynamo is a pure fabrication
Why?
You are in error to say the sun plays no role in this.
Why?
the sun has a major impact in earth's magnetic field and ignoring it is like ignoring a 300 pound gorilla sharing the room with you.
This is an ignorant claim made by someone without any physics education.
This quote from you "The Earth's magnetic field is not determined by exterior forces, such as the magnetic field of the Sun, or of any other object." is ludicrous.
Why (again)?
Waiting for answers…