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  • MYSTERIOUS SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALY IS “DEEPENING,” RECENT GOVERNMENT REPORT SAYS

    03/28/2023 8:54:46 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 29 replies
    /thedebrief.org/ ^ | MICAH HANKS
    The South Atlantic Anomaly is a location in the southern Atlantic where the innermost portions of the natural zone of energetic charged particles encircling Earth, known as the Van Allen radiation belt, makes its closest approach to the planet. The resulting outflow of energized particles produces a higher yield of ionizing radiation detectable by satellites orbiting Earth. Our planet’s geomagnetic field undergoes constant changes that result from the activity occurring in the Earth’s core, which current models aren’t capable of easily predicting. Because of this, the World Magnetic Model can only offer a good estimate of the Earth’s geomagnetic activity...
  • Scientists find Earth's center is outspinning the surface

    09/11/2005 1:45:14 PM PDT · by Coleus · 28 replies · 667+ views
    The giant iron ball at the center of the Earth appears to be spinning a bit faster than the rest of the planet. The solid 1,500-mile-wide inner core, which is surrounded by fluid, rotates about one-quarter to one-half degree more than the rest of the world every year, scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report in today's issue of the journal Science. The spin of the Earth's core is an important part of the engine that creates the planet's magnetic field, and researcher Xiaodong Song said he believes magnetic interaction is responsible...
  • ‘Significant Global Event From The Past’: Scientists Get Shocking Evidence From Earth’s Inner Core

    02/22/2023 12:40:46 PM PST · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | February 22, 2023 10:38 AM ET | KAY SMYTHE
    A study published Tuesday suggests that Earth has an additional inner core that may tell the tale of a “significant global event from the past.” The highly specialized study published in Nature found that there is a giant metal ball sitting within the Earth’s inner core, known as the innermost inner core (IMIC). The ball is roughly 800 miles, and has been part of geological theory for quite some time, but the results from the study almost conclusively prove its existence (since we can’t get down there and check with our own eyes). The study was conducted by a team...
  • Uh, Earth’s Inner Core Just Stopped Spinning

    02/15/2023 5:21:53 AM PST · by EBH · 60 replies
    A new study published in Nature Geoscience by geophysicists Yi Yang and Xiadong Song of Peking University in Beijing explored the nature of movement of Earth’s inner core, largely made up of iron and molten liquids. They found the inner core’s movement recently reduced enough they consider it “paused,” all part of what “seems to be associated with a gradual turning back of the inner core as a part of an approximately seven-decade oscillation.” The last turning point was in the early 1970s. The new study further tracked seismic waves through the core to see how they played out on...
  • A Monster Black Hole Just Just Flipped Its Entire Magnetic Field

    02/10/2023 11:49:54 AM PST · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    https://news.binodon24live.com ^ | February 10, 2023 | Staff
    Black holes are powerful cosmic reactors. They supply the energy for quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This is due to the interplay between matter and its enormous gravitational and magnetic forces. A black hole technically lacks a magnetic field, but the dense plasma surrounding it as an accretion disc does possess a magnetic field. As plasma spirals around a black hole, the charged particles inside it create an electrical current and magnetic field. The direction of plasma flow does not spontaneously vary, hence the magnetic field is likely rather stable. Imagine the researchers’ amazement when they discovered evidence...
  • Earth’s inner core paused, then reversed its spin. This is fine

    01/23/2023 6:05:57 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 64 replies
    Seattle Times ^ | January 23, 2023 | Robert George Andrews
    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...
  • A Crack Opened In Earth’s Magnetic Field Yesterday And Stayed Open For 14 Hours

    07/08/2022 11:51:21 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 46 replies
    ifl ^ | Katy Evans
    The crack in the magnet field was created by a rare phenomenon called a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) from the Sun. CIRs are large-scale plasma structures generated in the low and mid-latitude regions of the heliosphere – the region surrounding the Sun that includes the solar magnetic field and the solar winds – when fast and slow-moving streams of solar wind interact. Like coronal mass ejections (CMEs), CIRs get flung out from the Sun towards Earth and can contain shockwaves and compressed magnetic fields that cause stormy space weather, which usually presents itself to us as pretty aurorae. This one...
  • Is Earth's core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet's interior

    06/05/2021 7:39:36 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 37 replies
    Phys.org ^ | June 3. 2021
    The faster growth under Indonesia's Banda Sea hasn't left the core lopsided. Gravity evenly distributes the new growth—iron crystals that form as the molten iron cools—to maintain a spherical inner core that grows in radius by an average of 1 millimeter per year. But the enhanced growth on one side suggests that something in Earth's outer core or mantle under Indonesia is removing heat from the inner core at a faster rate than on the opposite side, under Brazil. Quicker cooling on one side would accelerate iron crystallization and inner core growth on that side. This has implications for Earth's...
  • Search for MH370 Revealed Ocean Crust Waves

    06/12/2020 11:32:16 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    Science News by American Geophysical Union ^ | 8 June 2020 | Kimberly M. S. Cartier
    The scans for MH370 revealed that the ocean crust rises and falls in waves that start at the Southeast Indian Ridge and continue outward. The ridge spreads about 35 millimeters in opposite directions every year, and the wave crests, where crust grew faster, are more than 100 kilometers long and repeat every 10-14 kilometers. The researchers estimated when each wave formed by comparing the bathymetry maps to independent measurements and models of the crust's magnetic field. ...Crustal rocks record the polarity of Earth's magnetic field as they form, allowing scientists to trace the age of different sections of ocean crust....
  • Is The Earth Preparing To Flip?

    03/27/2003 9:40:41 PM PST · by Davea · 57 replies · 647+ views
    BBC | 03/27/03
    Last Updated: Thursday, 27 March, 2003, 12:02 GMT Is the Earth preparing to flip? By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Finding the shifting magnetic pole It is not just the plot for a far-fetched science-fiction disaster movie. Something unexplained really is happening to the Earth's magnetic field. In recent years, the field has been behaving in ways not previously seen in the admittedly short time it has been monitored. Some researchers think it may presage a geomagnetic reversal when the north and south magnetic poles flip. Such speculation takes place as the science-fiction movie The Core goes...
  • Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test

    12/05/2004 11:17:28 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 80 replies · 2,526+ views
    SF Chronicle ^ | Monday, November 29, 2004 | Keay Davidson
    Researchers are preparing to test the highly controversial theory of a San Diego scientist, J. Marvin Herndon, who thinks a huge, natural nuclear reactor or "georeactor" -- a vast deposit of uranium several miles wide -- exists at Earth's core, thousands of miles beneath our feet... [I]t might help to explain otherwise puzzling phenomena of planetary science, such as fluctuations in the intensity of Earth's magnetic field... If Herndon's theoretical nuclear reactor really exists, then it should be gushing out antineutrinos that would fly through the roughly 4,000 miles of solid rock and emerge at the Earth's surface.
  • Home and away: Bat uses magnetic compass for long flights

    12/07/2006 6:40:21 AM PST · by FLOutdoorsman · 5 replies · 280+ views
    PhysOrg.com ^ | 06 Dec 2006 | AFP
    Scientists believe a species of bat has an inbuilt magnetic compass to find its way home over long distances, in addition to its famous echolocation, which guides it around its neighbourhood. Princeton University batologists used radio telemetry aboard a small aircraft to track big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) that were released 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of their home. They first tested a "control" group of bats, which headed due south towards the roost without a problem. Two other groups of bats were then exposed to a false magnetic field for 90 minutes, comprising 45 minutes before and 45 minutes...
  • Geomagnetic fields reveal the truth behind Biblical narratives

    10/24/2022 1:21:50 PM PDT · by devane617 · 63 replies
    phys ^ | 10/24/2022
    A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by reconstructing the direction and/or intensity of the earth's magnetic field recorded in burnt remnants. The new data verify the Biblical accounts of the Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian, and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Findings indicate, for example, that the army of Hazael, King of Aram-Damascus, was responsible for the destruction of several cities—Tel Rehov, Tel Zayit, and Horvat Tevet, in addition to Gath of the Philistines,...
  • Carolina bays gouged into the ground at a magnetic reversal

    07/29/2009 8:28:13 PM PDT · by Fred Nerks · 65 replies · 2,485+ views
    Magnetic Reversals ^ | 28 Jul 09 | Robert W Felix
    Is it just a coincidence that more than two million huge holes were gouged into the ground - all at the same time - about 12,000 years ago at a magnetic reversal? Usually not more than 20 feet deep - which means that they were probably not formed by meteoric impacts - the holes range in size from one acre to several thousand acres, and measure up seven miles across. Scientists estimate that there could be more than two million Carolina bays (sometimes under different names) spread across the United States from Florida to New Jersey to Texas. I sure...
  • Magnetic Reversals & Climate

    10/14/2010 2:32:40 PM PDT · by Errant · 14 replies
    It's Rainmaking Time! ^ | October 13, 2010 | Kim Greenhouse
    Audio file interview of Robert Felix who is the author of Not By Fire, But By Ice and founder of Ice Age Now, one of the biggest climate sites on the web. He discusses the findings that underscored Magnetic Reversals & Evolutionary Leaps, a study in the relationship between climate, pole shifts, and the evolution of species.
  • Magnetic Pole Reversal Happens All The (Geologic) Time

    11/30/2011 2:37:26 PM PST · by decimon · 25 replies
    NASA ^ | November 30, 2011
    Scientists understand that Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic compass in your hand, the needle would point to 'south.' This is because a magnetic compass is calibrated based on Earth's poles. The N-S markings of a compass would be 180 degrees wrong if the polarity of today's magnetic field were reversed. Many doomsday theorists have tried to take this natural geological occurrence and suggest it could lead to Earth's destruction. But would there be...
  • Strong Earthquakes in California Came After Magnetic Field Changes, Study Shows

    10/10/2022 2:22:02 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 35 replies
    Researchers who have been studying medium-sized to large strong earthquakes in California have found that the local magnetic field changes 2-3 days before an earthquake. The researchers accessed magnetic field data from a collection of magnetometers at 125 sensor stations along significant faults in California in cooperation with the Google Accelerated Science team. They gathered information between 2005 and 2019, a period in which 19 earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.5 or higher struck the faults. Their multi-station analysis took into account other types of processes, such as rush hour traffic, that might have an impact on the magnetometers but...
  • Physicists manipulate magnetism with light

    02/01/2022 7:05:35 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 15 replies
    phys.org ^ | FEBRUARY 1, 2022 | Elizabeth A. Thomson, Materials Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The current work involves the creation of unusual excitons in the material nickel phosphorus trisulfide (NiPS3). These excitons are "dressed" or affected by the environment that surrounds them. In this case that environment is the magnetism. The physicists found that a pulse of light causes each of the little electron "needles" in NiPS3 to start rotating around in a circle. The rotating spins are synchronized and form a wave throughout the material, known as a spin wave. Spin waves can be used in spin electronics, or spintronics... Spintronics essentially uses electrons' spin to go beyond electronics, which is based on...
  • Recordings of the magnetic field from 9,000 years ago teach us about the magnetic field today

    12/11/2021 10:51:10 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    EurekAlert! ^ | August 16, 2021 | Tel Aviv University
    The researchers explain that instruments for measuring the strength of the Earth's magnetic field were first invented only approximately 200 years ago. In order to examine the history of the field during earlier periods, science is helped by archaeological and geological materials that recorded the properties of the field when they were heated to high temperatures. The magnetic information remains "frozen" (forever or until another heating event) within tiny crystals of ferromagnetic minerals, from which it can be extracted using a series of experiments in the magnetics laboratory. Basalt from volcanic eruptions or ceramics fired in a kiln are frequent...
  • Wild New Paper Claims Earth May Be Surrounded by a Giant Magnetic Tunnel

    10/15/2021 12:17:04 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 15 OCTOBER 2021 | MICHELLE STARR
    Left: what the tunnel would look like; right: what the sky does look like. (Image Credit Below) Mysterious structures in the sky that have puzzled astronomers for decades might finally have an explanation – and it's quite something. The North Polar Spur and the Fan Region, on opposite sides of the sky, may be connected by a vast system of magnetized filaments. These form a structure resembling a tunnel that circles the Solar System, and many nearby stars besides. "If we were to look up in the sky," said astronomer Jennifer West of the University of Toronto in Canada, "we...