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Posted on 08/06/2013 4:25:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The flip-flopping of the Sun’s magnetic field takes place at the peak of each solar activity cycle when the Sun’s internal magnetic dynamo reorients itself. When the field reversal happens, the magnetic field weakens, then dies down to zero before emerging again with a reversed polarity.
While this is not a catastrophic event, the reversal will have effects, said solar physicist Todd Hoeksema, the director of Stanford University’s Wilcox Solar Observatory, who monitors the Sun’s polar magnetic fields. “This change will have ripple effects throughout the Solar System,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
That must be my son 60 years from now. Kid loves to swipe my iPad and hide under the bed playing games (he’s 3 now).
what will happen?
the same thing that happens every 11 years. nothing
I would settle for the earth opening up an swallowing DC along with all the maggots infesting the place.
Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....
...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...
....to increase it's magnetic field....
and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.
The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.
Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp
You should use the stick on letters. That's what I have. Even if it happens suddenly, you're good.
I suppose when Methuselah naps like Rumpelstiltskin I’m bound to miss a few things.
“The poles will no longer be working full shifts.”
But the Czechs and Hungarians will pick up the overtime.
good idea
I truly and genuinely HATE those commercials. I leap for the remote whenever they come on.
Nice!
I can say with utmost confidence that I’m certainly attracted to those poles.
Does this mean my toilet will now flush counter clockwise?
No, upwards.
I have asked the government for $10 billion to head off this tragedy.
I think I already have one of those.
lol. So have we all, at one time or another.
The next Carrington event will actually IMPROVE our power grid, rather than destroying it!
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