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To: blueplum

Title: “Earth’s Inner Core May Have Started Rotating in the Opposite Direction”

First sentence: “The rotation of the Earth’s inner core may be reversing...”

There’s a big difference between just rotating in the opposite direction, and slowing down.

In fact, I would posit that slowing down of the relative rotation of the core is to be predicted, over a great lengths of geologic time, due to friction of fluids.

Suggesting that it’s just going to spontaneously reverse itself, while obviously meant to be a gripping headline, is sensationalism.

If I am not mistaken, it is the iron composition of the earths core and it’s relative rotation that causes our magnetic field. It would actually be doing us a favor if it just “reversed” rather than gradually slowed down.


41 posted on 01/24/2023 5:00:57 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: z3n

Inertia continues


42 posted on 01/24/2023 5:03:59 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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