To: RightWhale
the earth's magnetic field, weakens it momentarily and substantially. No more so than forcing two bar magnetes South pole to South pole and likewise with the North; momentarily the normal fields are displaced but 'weaken' is not a term I would use ...
21 posted on
11/02/2003 7:50:14 PM PST by
_Jim
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To: _Jim
No more so than forcing two bar magnetes South pole to South pole and likewise with the North; momentarily the normal fields are displaced but 'weaken' is not a term I would use ... I ask as one who knows little of these things. If two magnets are forced together South-to-South and North-to-North they try to get into a North-South alignment. They don't 'like' this orientation. Could not the same thing happen if a strong enough field approached from space? That is, could Earth wobble a little on its axis as the two fields interacted?
22 posted on
11/02/2003 8:30:41 PM PST by
pa_dweller
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