The earth's magnetic field has weakened and reversed many times in the
past. Approximately every 250.000 years on average. This is how Sea
Floor Spreading was discovered because of the locked-in orientation of
the earth's magnetic field in solidifying magma near the Spreading
Center of the oceanic plates.
What is so different about this new research that has everyone
knickers in a knot.?
Scientists have been saying for quite a while now that a reversal is
coming soon( In geologic time that is). It has been about 780,000
years since the last reversal, so we are a bit overdue. BTW the
magnetic field has never completely disappeared during these previous
reversals.

What this has to do with either the North or South Geographic Pole
pointing towards the sun instead of the way it is now is beyond me.

Harold A. Climer
Dept Of Physics Geology & Astronomy
U.T. Chattanooga
Room 406A Engineering,Math & Computer Sicence Building
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga TN 37403
Harold-Climer at (no spam) utc.edu

In article <3bqc74luu7jda9bflp3idgrskp8o3j9... at (no spam) 4ax.com>,
Harold A. Climer <Harold-Cli... at (no spam) utc.edu> wrote:

The earth's magnetic field has weakened and reversed many times in the
past. Approximately every 250.000 years on average. This is how Sea
Floor Spreading was discovered because of the locked-in orientation of
the earth's magnetic field in solidifying magma near the Spreading
Center of the oceanic plates.
What is so different about this new research that has everyone
knickers in a knot.?
Scientists have been saying for quite a while now that a reversal is
coming soon( In geologic time that is). It has been about 780,000
years since the last reversal, so we are a bit overdue. BTW the
magnetic field has never completely disappeared during these previous
reversals.

There have recently been a program on Nova and an article in Scientific
American covering this topic. It seems that the magnetic field doesn't
disappear; rather it develops more and more "anomalies" until the field
resembles swiss cheese with lots of local N and S poles. Eventually the
multiple poles coalesce, leaving just the one S and N ... but reversed
from the previous configuration.

There was a guy who wrote a computer simulation of this process and left
it running for months ... after a vacation he returned to find that his
magnetic field had switched directions. He looked back at the data and
found the details of the process.

Someone else has been looking through British Admiralty charts of
magnetic anomalies. He says they're getting worse ... and, of course,
the magnetic poles are moving quickly.

What this has to do with either the North or South Geographic Pole
pointing towards the sun instead of the way it is now is beyond me.

And the rest of us!

On Jul 11, 2:18 am, Timberwoof <timberwoof.s... at (no spam) inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com
wrote:
In article <3bqc74luu7jda9bflp3idgrskp8o3j9... at (no spam) 4ax.com>,
Harold A. Climer <Harold-Cli... at (no spam) utc.edu> wrote:

The earth's magnetic field has weakened and reversed many times in the
past. Approximately every 250.000 years on average. This is how Sea
Floor Spreading was discovered because of the locked-in orientation of
the earth's magnetic field in solidifying magma near the Spreading
Center of the oceanic plates.
What is so different about this new research that has everyone
knickers in a knot.?
Scientists have been saying for quite a while now that a reversal is
coming soon( In geologic time that is). It has been about 780,000
years since the last reversal, so we are a bit overdue. BTW the
magnetic field has never completely disappeared during these previous
reversals.

There have recently been a program on Nova and an article in Scientific
American covering this topic. It seems that the magnetic field doesn't
disappear; rather it develops more and more "anomalies" until the field
resembles swiss cheese with lots of local N and S poles. Eventually the
multiple poles coalesce, leaving just the one S and N ... but reversed
from the previous configuration.

There was a guy who wrote a computer simulation of this process and left
it running for months ... after a vacation he returned to find that his
magnetic field had switched directions. He looked back at the data and
found the details of the process.

Someone else has been looking through British Admiralty charts of
magnetic anomalies. He says they're getting worse ... and, of course,
the magnetic poles are moving quickly.

What this has to do with either the North or South Geographic Pole
pointing towards the sun instead of the way it is now is beyond me.

And the rest of us!

The earth appears to be a fluid.

This may be a conception of the
ballistic forced on earth science in lieu of the true explanation or
at least a better one.

I can't see any mechanism that would cause
plates to fly one over the other,

more; provide energy input to the
mechanism that has to be disposed of as earthquakes.

It would appear that the moon in captured rotation, though it spins
twenty seven times further than the earth,

only one twenty-seventh as
often, has no appreciable magnetism.

And this is due to the material composition?

Worse, we know that all material loses its magnetism at cherry red
heat, that is at about 500 degrees Centigrade.

And that the proof of
the changes in this so called magnetic shift is supplied by the action
of volcanic effluvia.

Is it really so?

How long do you think a month is?

On Jul 12, 2:26 am, Timberwoof <timberwoof.s... at (no spam) inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com
wrote:

How long do you think a month is?

30 degrees.

You?

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Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 12, 2:26 am, Timberwoof <timberwoof.s... at (no spam) inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com
wrote:

How long do you think a month is?

30 degrees.

You?

Seems I stumped you so badly with that question that you didn't want to
deal with any of the rest of what I wrote.

On Jul 12, 8:48 am, Timberwoof <timberwoof.s... at (no spam) inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com
wrote:
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Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 12, 2:26 am, Timberwoof <timberwoof.s... at (no spam) inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com
wrote:

How long do you think a month is?

30 degrees.

You?

Seems I stumped you so badly with that question that you didn't want to
deal with any of the rest of what I wrote.

Hardly. I didn't wish to embarrass you.

You provide enough of that for
the amusement of all interested in that as it is.

Do you happen to know how long a month is now that you have the
answer?

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Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 12, 8:48 am, Timberwoof <timberwoof.s... at (no spam) inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com
wrote:
In article
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Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 12, 2:26 am, Timberwoof <timberwoof.s... at (no spam) inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com
wrote:

How long do you think a month is?

30 degrees.

You?

Seems I stumped you so badly with that question that you didn't want to
deal with any of the rest of what I wrote.

Hardly. I didn't wish to embarrass you.

Do your worst!

Do you happen to know how long a month is now that you have the
answer?

Sidereal, synodic, anomalistic, tropical, or draconic?

I'm not sure which of those could be answered as "30 degrees".

if 365.256 days = 360 degrees, then "30 degrees" could be taken to mean
30.4 days, which isn't any of those. One of them is somewhat close, if
you meant days.

Scientists have been saying for quite a while now that a reversal is
coming soon( In geologic time that is). It has been about 780,000
years since the last reversal, so we are a bit overdue. BTW the
magnetic field has never completely disappeared during these previous
reversals.

943fd4d2-949c-4798-80d8-c68b88944... at (no spam) r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:

The earth appears to be a fluid.

Well, no, not if you interpret seismic waves the way they behave in the
laboratory. Pressure waves travel through solids and liquid; shear waves
travel through solids and not liquids. There is a fairly well defined
region inside the earth which does not pass shear waves. It is believed,
with good reason, to be liquid while the rest is solid.

This may be a conception of the observed ballistics forced on earth science in
lieu of a more likely explanation.

Like what?