What Makes Earth’s Magnetic Field Change Direction?



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You might have heard that Earth is due for a complete flip of its magnetic field. And while our planet does have a history of this behavior, predictions of when it might happen are too complex to estimate a date for.

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45 thoughts on “What Makes Earth’s Magnetic Field Change Direction?”

  1. If a continent sized semi-molten slab of subducted crust reached the outer core, I wonder if it could cause a pressure wave large enough to make the inner core do a somersault.. or two. I picture the solid inner core kind of like a breakdancer spinning on their back, or perhaps more like one of those gyroscopic wrist exercisers, except in super slow-mo. Meh.. I suppose it’d take a lot more than a slab of the earth’s crust to change the core’s angular momentum, but I find it rather terrifyingly cool to imagine. -Phill, Las Vegas

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  2. Suspicious0bservers has a great video on this. And yes, we do know why. You just didn't do your homework. It's also not harmless. Magnetic pole reversals always coincide with mass extinctions. Period. You can sugarcoat it all you want but there's hundreds of peer reviewed scientific studies that say otherwise. Again… SUSPICIOUS0BSERVERS

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  3. Theoretical guess work is no basis for understanding why magnetic reversals occur. Measurements of the migration of the magnetic north combined with a grand solar minimum can weaken the earths heliosphere allowing an increase in cosmic rays which may play a part in a reversal. You really need to expand your horizons in informing people based on actual measurements rather than relying on obsolete theories.

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  4. Being a man of science you should follow suspicious observers Ben Davis shows it's coming and we do not know that everything will be ok but the rate at which it's moving is faster at least in the north and doesn't look to be slowing

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  5. I saw something on Nova about this when I was 8 and I theorized that it would switch in patches and take the weather with it that is my theory as to why we have the crazy weather we are due for a flip-flop and it is good doing it in a slow manner and the magnetic North being above Russia just proves me even further.

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  6. Didn't they just release a study indicating that a field reversal may have been a driver for a mass extinction? !

    Cartographers might also argue with the assertion not to expect a flip when magnetic north has never been recorded traversing so quickly.

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  7. Um, not having solar radiation protection during the times of magnetic pole reversals would cause a lot of long term hazards to humans during those periods. Particularly during solar maximums.🤷🏼‍♂️

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  8. Sir, this sounds like government propaganda. The Sun drives everything on earth, including the magnetic field. The current field started weakening after the Carrington Event in 1859, the magnetic field started flipping then and has been getting faster ever since. You will see this flip in your lifetime and it won't be all easy-peasy. There will be extinctions and massive die offs to come.

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  9. THE MAGNETIC FORCE OF THE PLANET ARE FOUND IN EQUATOR REASON WHY PLANET HAVE A RING AND THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLE ARE THE ENTER OR DOOR OF GRAVITY CAME FROM THE SUN CALLED AURORA THE MAGNETIC DUST,, THIS GRAVITY IS A FOOD OF BLACL HOLE ON THE INSIDE OF THE PLANET BECAUSE THE BLACK HOLE ARE REDUCING A SIZE OR REMOVING THE SKIN USING TO ADD A GRAVITY TO THE SOIL AND LIFE AND THE OTHER GRAVITY RELEASING ARE USING FOR THE FORCE TO CONTROL OR TO HOLD THE FORCE OFTHE GRAVITY OF SUN,,, IF THE GRAVITY RELEASING IS BIG THAT IS A TORNADO AND TYPHOON,, THE EXAMPLE OF GRAVITY RELEASING IN THE SCALP OF THE BLACK HOLE ARE THE COLD SPINNING RAINBOW

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  10. Wrong theres studies that show that every 12,980 ywars the earths magmetic poles shift completly , accordimg to that informtion we have around less than 10 years befoee that happen the most evident obvios proof of that is the comparation of climate change from the last 3 years its obvious dont believe me but research yourself

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  11. It is flipping because we are moving into the northern area of our universe that has a north and south so now our galaxy must adjust to the different conditions welcome to the age of aquarius

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  12. We're in a 3 sun system, the kachinas, every few hundred years one sun returns, thus the cataclysms which are documented throughout history, which occur around 360-400 years such as the 2 sun's seen over Germany which bombarded the earth with debris, in the middle ages as an example.

    A few thousand years/procession all 3 converge. horus (red star kachina) comes every now and again and fights Ra (blue star kachina) which is returning to reclaim Earth this time. Earth/us started on the blue sun Ra, hens the 3rd eye being an actual UV sensitive organ hooked up to the ocular, in the same shape as Ra's magnetic signature, and the legends of Ra being Isis/Earths dad well.

    Planet X on its own is a psyop. Its a system. More than likely describing the kachinas, darkstar surrounded with ionised plasma aka noctulucent clouds, Cherenkov radiation, it has multiple orbitals and moons. NASAs Trappist 1 system is soft disclosure, as is the supposed ultra cool, pure blue brown dwarf as they call it. It's the dragon of revelation which states the dragon has 7 head's and 10 horns. This "Grand Solar Minimum" is a term used by nasa & Co to tell certain truths as to what is occurring, as in reality the sun is going dark, biblically as black as sackcloth due to the binary star system's presence as stars can not be in close proximity to one another without climatic event's. The moon is also blood red all of the time due to the sun dimming and the darkstar rejuvenation, getting stronger in its energy and light output by rejuvenating from our sun via plasma connections.

    The need for the Blinding white sun simulator tech with multiple colours emitting from it and project bluebeam is for panic control as our skies would. Be darkred often black all of the time.

    We have a lens array in play such as the Rochester cloak using 4 or more lenses to obscure objects, but on an advanced scale, this is why we get so called sun halos and sun dogs, they are lens adjustments, refracting the light when we experience an Eclipse from an object from the binary system.
    Again the reason why they relentlessly spray our skies prior and during these so called natural phenomenon.. They use chemtrails as marker clouds to adjust and refract the light from the interlinked lens array and sun sim. They are not a result of ice crystals as they state or they wouldn't spray prior/during strategically and relentlessly.

    The moon also has a simulator in use also to obscure the fact it is blood red all of the time. You can observe the moon simulator activate and pulsate providing the beings in control of HAARP and the aluminium chemical spraying above, fail to produce a strategically placed chemical HAARP manipulated shelf cloud in place in time.

    The messed up sunrises/sunsets are a tell tale sign of multiple light sources also. We are being bombarded with solar wind and ionised plasma (so called Noctolucent clouds) from the darkstar from behind in our northern night skies. Check out the magnetosphere graphs.

    The moon is also appearing to flip in the night to the earth wobble (drunkard biblically) , oceans receding for miles, earthquakes and much more due to the star systems presence locking onto our poles, Global warming is a hoax. It is a cycle, You can always tell when HAARP is in use as it produces a lined rib effect in the chemicals, a sure sign somethings occurring above that they do not want anyone to see.

    All the planets in the sol system are experiencing major so called global warming effects also including our star. This system will cause the earth's pole reversal cataclysm and crustal displacement aka tribulation, it is a reset, a new world literally and the beings in control know of the event's to come and have their deep underground bunkers awaiting for the day the event takes place. It is an end of an age. A reset. Preparing spiritually is key

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  13. I believe it's our bianery star that swings by every 3600 years that flips us , just ask the Egyptias or atlantians. Wait they all got whipped out the last time. Meybe that's why they are hiding it from the public and digging themselves underground bunkers. Just saying. Look up people

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  14. You worship shiva dontchu?:) just playin thanks for years of science I wish it got me money but it got me knowledge and it showed me I really don’t need money but it would be nice to give a tip someday. This is best I can do.

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