is there gonna be a polarshift anytime soon? if so what would happen to the earth and the natural disasters? thanks
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In 160 BC the Greek astronomer Hipparchus discovered precession, a slow shift in the direction the poles point. A complete cycle takes 25,870 years. Since it is a continuous process, anyone thinks for 20 seconds can realize there is no affect on anything except where the poles point.
\If you mean will the poles flip, the magnetic poles do this, not the rotational poles. The change is extremely slow, taking a couple hundred thousand years, and none is due any time soon. Other than changing how your compass points, it would have little effect except for a brief period when auroras might be more common near the equator.
\If you mean will the poles flip, the magnetic poles do this, not the rotational poles. The change is extremely slow, taking a couple hundred thousand years, and none is due any time soon. Other than changing how your compass points, it would have little effect except for a brief period when auroras might be more common near the equator.
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There are three different types of "pole shifts":
1) Crustal displacement which happens at fractions of an inch every year. (which is only related to the poles by technicality since the poles are on a tectonic plate).
2) Magnetic pole shifts which take hundreds to thousands of years to occur and are not happening right now.
3) Axis pole shift which is also called precession and takes tens of thousands of years to occur. 2012 is not a mile stone in that cycle.
None of them cause disasters. Crustal displacement I guess technically causes earthquakes and volcanoes, but it's been doing that forever ... billions of years, nothing new.
1) Crustal displacement which happens at fractions of an inch every year. (which is only related to the poles by technicality since the poles are on a tectonic plate).
2) Magnetic pole shifts which take hundreds to thousands of years to occur and are not happening right now.
3) Axis pole shift which is also called precession and takes tens of thousands of years to occur. 2012 is not a mile stone in that cycle.
None of them cause disasters. Crustal displacement I guess technically causes earthquakes and volcanoes, but it's been doing that forever ... billions of years, nothing new.
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>> is there gonna be a polarshift anytime soon?
Indeterminate. Most geomagnetic reversals are slow processes taking centuries or millennia. We might be well through one before we even realized it. Unless you mean the pseudoscience kind where the rotational poles flip over, then the answer would be "never".
>> if so what would happen to the earth and the natural disasters?
It will still have natural disasters, just like before.
Indeterminate. Most geomagnetic reversals are slow processes taking centuries or millennia. We might be well through one before we even realized it. Unless you mean the pseudoscience kind where the rotational poles flip over, then the answer would be "never".
>> if so what would happen to the earth and the natural disasters?
It will still have natural disasters, just like before.