I won’t ridicule you for writing about a physical pole shift, even though I think that’s unlikely.
I see an abrupt magnetic pole shift, with an accompanying physical shake-up, as much more likely.
The magnetic pole has been in motion ever since reliable compasses were developed, and I think the motion has increased in recent decades. Possibly the shift is not all that abrupt?
I was half kidding. Sometimes my three years of earth science courses make me dangerous in a geological discussion!
But, the concept of a true pole shift and the impact it would have had on civilization answers a lot of historical questions. For example, we find archeological evidence of civilizations that were all wiped out around the same time. Yet the history of man can be found way beyond the past 5,000.
The biblical stories and ancient myths point to massive floods and other events that could be tied back to a massive shift.
The magnetic shift DOES occur every 10,000 years or so. It is right there in the sea floor of the atlantic—the magnetic pictures of the rocks look like zebra stripes—one set with the pole north, then another set with the pole south.
I take the magnetic shift as a “given.”
Sometimes a little education is just enough to scare the bejeezus out of you.