Posted on 01/23/2023 6:05:57 PM PST by DoodleBob
Imagine Earth’s inner core — the dense center of our planet — as a heavy, metal ballerina. This iron-rich dancer is capable of pirouetting at ever-changing speeds.
That core may be on the cusp of a big shift. Seismologists reported Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience that after brief but peculiar pauses, the inner core changes how it spins — relative to the motion of Earth’s surface — perhaps once every few decades. And, right now, one such reversal may be underway.
This may sound like a setup for a world-wrecking, blockbuster movie. But fret not: Precisely nothing apocalyptic will result from this planetary spin cycle, which may have been happening for eons. The researchers who propose this speculative model instead aim to advance understanding of Earth’s innermost sanctum and its relationship with the rest of the world.
The inner core is like “a planet within a planet, so how it moves is obviously very important,” said Xiaodong Song, a seismologist at Peking University in Beijing and an author of the study.
In 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann discovered that Earth’s liquid outer core envelops a solid metal marble — and it has bamboozled scientists ever since.
“It’s weird that there’s a solid iron ball kind of floating in the middle of the Earth,” said John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California who was not involved with the study.
Scientists think the core crystallized out of a molten metal soup at some point in Earth’s not-too-distant past, after the planet’s internal inferno had sufficiently cooled.
The inner core cannot be directly sampled, but energetic seismic waves emanating from potent earthquakes and Cold War-era nuclear weapon tests have ventured through the inner core, illuminating some of its properties.
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The technical aspects are explained below:
You put your right foot in
You put your right foot out
You put your right foot in
And you shake it all about
You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about!
I’ll do the Hokey Pokey
I’ll do the Hokey Pokey
That’s what it’s all about!
speculative model
China report. I fully trust it. /s
According to the article the inner core stopped spinning as it was and reversed direction in 2009
Hmmm. . .
This reversal raises the real possibility that the Earth will tip over.
Clearly due to Global Warming.
Yep, it is a normal cycle thing we have never been aware of before so we are making a huge guess about everything.
BTW it could be The End of the World, we need 100 million in Grant money to study this.
and OMG more to stop Man made Global Core Shifting caused by removing Oil weight from certain areas which causes rotational stability issues as well as pollution and global warming which causes polar bears to drown
Hydraulic balancer?
Think of the inner core as a SuperBall bouncing off its nearest surface.....
harmonic?
The magnetic North is way out of place right now. Many airports have changed their runway headings.
There is Nothing Trump can’t do!
Yeah - that’s what my tired old brain was really thinking!
Or at least Guam.
He theorized that when the core reversed it would cause (1) the magnetic poles to shift and (2) the outer crust to shift and then stop moving.
Unfortunately, the atmosphere and water in the oceans will not stop moving. They will continue to move at their present 1,000 miles per hour speed.
Every point on Earth will experience 1,000 mph winds. The water will leave the ocean and flow across the continents--also at 1,000 mph--and will be several miles deep.
All of this will happen in a matter of an hour. Civilization will be wiped clean off the face of the Earth. Only a few people might survive, but they will be knocked back to the stone age.
Chan Thomas theorizes this has happened before. That civilization has risen and been wiped out multiple times.
Just need to drill to the core and install ball bearings.
I noticed that the water in my toilet suddenly started draining counterclockwise in 2009. I always thought itvhad something to do with Obama in the White House.
Even passive harmonic dampers can get the job done.
Basic Physics can be very amazing.....
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