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Earth's Inner Core May Have Started Rotating in the Opposite Direction
Newsweek ^ | 23 Jan 2023 | Aristos Georgiou

Posted on 01/24/2023 1:31:37 AM PST by blueplum

The rotation of the Earth's inner core may be reversing, scientists have found in a study that sheds new light on geological processes occurring deep within our planet.

The results of the research, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, indicate that changes in the rotation of the inner core could take place on a scale of decades. The study's authors told Newsweek the findings have implications for our understanding of how the core influences the other layers of the Earth....

...these changes are likely part of an oscillation that takes place over roughly seven decades, with a previous turning point occurring in the early 1970s....

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: astrophysics; earthscience; geophysics; planetaryscience
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Random thought: seven decades is roughly the lifespan of the average human.
1 posted on 01/24/2023 1:31:37 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Have they blamed gas stoves yet?


2 posted on 01/24/2023 1:37:12 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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“...with a previous turning point occurring in the early 1970s....”

Wasn’t that about the time of the Global Cooling fears?


3 posted on 01/24/2023 1:42:13 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: blueplum

ummm early seventies would be five decades. I should know.


4 posted on 01/24/2023 1:49:25 AM PST by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: blueplum

Yea, Yea and oil comes from dinosaur bones . Everything we were taught while growing up by the sciences is all turning out to be bullsh!t.


5 posted on 01/24/2023 2:02:49 AM PST by spincaster
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To: blueplum
Right about the time the Covid shots were developed.

Coincidence?

6 posted on 01/24/2023 2:05:52 AM PST by GaryCrow
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To: blueplum

They’ve really gone off their rocker haven’t they?


7 posted on 01/24/2023 2:07:44 AM PST by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: blueplum

Here is an idea: fossil fuel doesn’t come from fossils at all. The “experts” have no idea what is happening at the earths core.


8 posted on 01/24/2023 2:08:38 AM PST by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: blueplum
from reading the article, it seems like the scientists are saying they believe the core has been rotating eastward slightly faster than the rest of the 3rd rock and now it may be rotating slightly slower, still eastward) than the rest or lagging, which is not really as radical as rotating in the opposite direction or “reversing”. It's apparently only a relative deceleration.
9 posted on 01/24/2023 2:10:53 AM PST by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: blueplum

“West of the Rockies.....caller you’re on the air....”


10 posted on 01/24/2023 2:11:13 AM PST by MachIV
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To: Theophilus

They said the rotation of the core came to a stop more recently. Sounds like recent measurements indicate a counter rotation now.


11 posted on 01/24/2023 2:34:58 AM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: spincaster

I remember that 6th grade science class (1970) where we were told oil and coal came from dead dinosaurs.


12 posted on 01/24/2023 2:35:38 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: blueplum

Had a bad hair day last week. Now I know why.


13 posted on 01/24/2023 2:37:21 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Theophilus

That is what I got from the details also. The eastward rotation has had a slight change on velocity, not a complete reversal in rotational direction.

It would be hard to imagine a force that could reverse a core’s rotational direction that would not have a noticeable effect on the surface of da Erf.


14 posted on 01/24/2023 2:38:22 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: Theophilus

That makes more sense.


15 posted on 01/24/2023 2:38:42 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: blueplum

I hate when that happens.


16 posted on 01/24/2023 2:44:06 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: exnavy

“The ‘experts’ have no idea what is happening at the earths core.”

And God must be getting a good belly laugh when these experts start spouting off. He’s just messing with them.


17 posted on 01/24/2023 2:46:43 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: 21twelve
Wasn’t that about the time of the Global Cooling fears?

I remember those days too. I was worried about global cooling back then. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

18 posted on 01/24/2023 2:58:06 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: MayflowerMadam
“The ‘experts’ have no idea what is happening at the earths core.”

I wonder if it has the same affect, as the contra rotating props on a TU-95 Bear?

19 posted on 01/24/2023 3:21:06 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: blueplum

I have a theory that the earths melted core could only be rotating at a different speed as the result of an asteroid strike that set the outer crust in motion.

Then the outer crust springs back and forth like a swinging spring door, with a periodicity of 26,000 years. The time that they have determined that the poles seem to shift.

This would explain the ‘regular’ interval of pole shifting.

And also explain numerous civilizations coming and going, because it is the difference in speed which gives us the magnetic north and south poles. When it ‘stops’ before reversing to the opposite direction it allows the solar winds to blast away at our atmosphere.


20 posted on 01/24/2023 3:22:22 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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