The Earth’s core is slowing down
The Earth’s core is slowing down
The study of more than 100 earthquakes confirms that the sphere, roughly the size of the Moon, is reversing relative to the planet’s surface
In other news, the moon is getting farther away from the Earth, and the sun is expanding.
Don't worry - there's a documentary about when this happened last time. We can fix it again.
I very much enjoyed that movie.
it's so bad that it is awesome
Yeah, it's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.
TL;DR it's no cause for concern for now. Core is changing speed and direction in cycles.
I wonder what kinds of affects this do have?
It would find it bizar if there are no natural phenomena connected to it.
The geomagnetic field is weakening which is common during these kinds of episodes and eventually the polarity of the magnetic field will flip so that north becomes south and vice versa. During the transition though we are likely to go from our bipolar magnetic field to a quadrupolar magnetic field where the north and south poles can fluctuate between two different points each instead of the normal single point. You can see evidence of this occurring in geological history through Ignatius rock, as it cools from volcanic eruptions.
Everything happening in the universe is "natural phenomena." If we can't explain it, we don't have enough information.
Meanwhile, the mantle is tailgating the hell out of the core wishing it would move over to the right lane
about fuckin time.
Slow core gang rises again!
Wouldn't it be more concerning if it was speeding up?
Why would it be more concerning?