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The most recent study from the EDIFICE project, a geophysical research initiative based in France, claims we're headed for a cataclysm. According to Dr. Nicolas Thouveny, one of the principal investigators for EDIFICE: "The geomagnetic field has been decaying for the last 3,000 years. If it continues to fall down at this rate, in less than one millennium we will be in a critical (period)."
By "critical period," Thouveny means a point where the Earth can no longer protect itself from solar radiation, which can damage not only the multibillion-dollar satellite ecosystem that makes modern digital life possible, but put humans (and astronauts in orbit) at risk. After weakening to critical levels, the magnetic poles will flip, which is actually less dangerous than it is in the movies. "The decrease in geomagnetic field is much more important and dramatic than the reversal," Dr. Thouveny says. "It is very important to understand if the present field will decay to zero in the next century, because we will have to prepare."
One of the most troubling phenomenon associated with the Earth's weakening magnetic field is the South Atlantic Anomaly, an area over the Atlantic Ocean where the field is about three times weaker than it is at the poles. Satellites passing over the Anomaly have already experienced damage from solar radiation, and it may be a preview of what's to come.
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Its my understanding that the earth is a dipole, with the magnetic field being generated during to the rotation of the Earth's iron core, generating magneton flows at right angles to the direction of rotation, these are magneton outflow at North Pole and magneton inflow at South Pole...the orientation of those poles and therefore the Earth's "uprightness" (relative to the solar plane) is governed by the Sun... Whose solar radiation field governs planetary position (both distance and orientation)and certainly determines the direction of those magneton flows... the Sun in turn is oriented by larger systems in our Galaxy via its magneton flow pathways..for the Earth to "flip " its poles, it would need to be directed by the Sun which would be directed by the Milky Way ...
Perhaps the weakening of the Earths magnetic field (and the current solar minimum behavior) are due to the ever closer, very dense, magnetic brown dwarf...aka Nibiru...aka Planet X...drawing magnetons towards it and "weakening" the magnetic output of the Earth and Sun....interesting to note that Nibiru's orbital cycle of some 3600 years matches the above "experts" finding that the Earths field has been weakening for the past 3000 years, is since the last passage...🤔