[taxcontrol]

I understand what was said - but I dont understand what this means. Can anyone expand on the ramifications?

[Yo-Yo]

Aha! The Earth's magnetic field is weakening, and at the same time the Polar Ice Caps are melting. Coincidence?

[investigateworld]

ping

[Poohbah]

Physicists in Japan have discovered that the melting point of water increases slightly in a strong magnetic field. Hideaki Inaba and colleagues at Chiba University found that it increases by 5.6 millikelvin for ordinary water in a field of 6 Tesla, and by 21.8 millikelvin for heavy water (J. Appl. Phys. 96 6127).

Could this be a byproduct of the magnetic field interacting with the thermometer? 0.0056 Kelvin and 0.0218 Kelvin are pretty small increments.

[Mister Baredog]

Since water is diamagnetic

Everybody knows that, right?

[SunkenCiv]

The New Mystery of Water
By Michael Schirber
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 01 December, 2004
7:00 a.m. ET
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/041201_water_bonds.html

Water's unique properties:

• The solid form floats on the liquid form. This property also explains why water pipes will burst when they freeze – something opposite of nearly every other simple substance. Mercury thermometers, for instance, do not explode when the temperature drops below the freezing point of mercury.

• The temperatures at which water boils and freezes are both higher than other molecules of similar size.

• Water has a large heat capacity; it can take in a lot of heat without its temperature increasing very much. This makes it an especially good coolant for a car radiator, and it's the main reason temperatures are moderate for coastal communities – as the ocean is slow to cool down or warm up.

• The high surface tension of water – its tendency to fight being pulled apart – explains why it forms droplets and why it climbs up the sides of a straw. It may also play a part in how the water strider walks on water.

[SunkenCiv]

Pingin' you to a Dec 2004 topic.

[SunkenCiv]

Earth's Magnetic Field Weakens 10 Percent (and some other stuff)
Yahoo News | 12/12/03 | Andrew Bridges - AP
Posted on 12/12/2003 6:26:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1039487/posts

Earth's magnetic poles on verge of flipping
World Net Daily | December 12, 2003
Posted on 12/13/2003 8:38:30 PM PST by gitmo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1039977/posts

Pole reversal: Feared "flip" of Earth's magnetic field takes 7,000 years [DOOM!]
Agence France-Presse | April 7, 2004 | AFP
Posted on 04/07/2004 9:13:52 PM PDT by AntiGuv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113501/posts

NYT: COLLAPSE OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD ACCELERATES (Via Drudge)
Drudge Report | 7/12/04 | Drudge
Posted on 07/12/2004 4:05:31 PM PDT by mkj6080
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170023/posts

Collapse of Magnetic Field Accelerates
New York Times... | 7/12/04
Posted on 07/12/2004 7:44:32 PM PDT by Cheetah1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170131/posts