The Earth's magnetic poles are in continuous motion, circling around the geographic poles, traveling along the meridians, and sometimes the North magnetic pole suddenly changes places with the South. All these manifestations of life on the earth have an impact on the water, atmosphere and fauna of the planet Earth
In the ancient legends of peoples living on all continents, in the records of scientists, terrible catastrophes are mentioned that visited or once visited the Earth many millennia ago. According to the Lappish cosmogonic legend, the displacement of the core happened like this; "When the evil-wicked one grew stronger," the center of the Earth "shook with terror, so that the upper layers of the earth broke through, and many people fell into caves to die there."
Yumbel (heavenly god) said: “I will turn this world. I will make the rivers flow backwards; I will force the sea to gather into a huge wall, like a tower / which I will bring down on your evil children, and thus destroy them and all their life.”One of the next displacements of the Earth's axis occurred relatively recently - during the Flood. When Noah saw that the earth shook and its destruction was near, and cried out in a mournful voice; “Tell me what is done to the earth, that it suffers and shakes so much” (Book of Enoch). Almost all peoples of the world have legends about the Flood, and their descriptions almost completely coincide.
All these horrific descriptions of disasters in the light of recent events in Southeast Asia and America seem very real. An earthquake caused by a slight "movement" of the earth's crust at the point of contact of two plates "floating" in molten magma, a tsunami that destroyed hundreds of thousands of people. Some geophysicists believe that in the foreseeable future, underground processes will threaten the inhabitants of our planet, and dangerous for life there can be two scenarios on the planet.
Back in 1829, scientists noted that the inner core of the Earth was displaced relative to the planet's axis of rotation by 252 km towards the Pacific Ocean. By 1965, this displacement had increased to 451 km. If the movement of the core towards the dark surface continues, then after a certain time the planet will simply tumble in space, like a whirligig with a displaced center of gravity. Such a "somersault" will lead to a sharp shift of the geographic poles and, accordingly, climatic zones, which will be reflected in the West by floods, glaciation and strange behavior of galaxies, stars and the Sun.
The geographic poles are also constantly shifting along the surface of the Earth. But these displacements are slow and natural. The axis of our planet, rotating like a top, describes a cone around the pole of the ecliptic with a period of about 26 thousand years, in accordance with the migration of the geographic poles, gradual climatic changes also occur. They are mainly caused by the displacement of ocean currents that transfer heat to the continents. Another thing is the unexpected, sharp "somersaults" of the poles. But the rotating Earth is a gyroscope with a very impressive intrinsic angular momentum, in other words, it is an inertial object. resisting attempts to change the characteristics of his movement. A sudden change in the inclination of the Earth's axis and even more so its "somersault" cannot be caused by internal slow movements of magma or gravitational interaction with any passing cosmic body.
Such an overturning moment can arise only with a tangential impact of an asteroid no less than 1000 kilometers in diameter, approaching the Earth at a speed of 100 km / sec. A more real threat to the life of mankind and the entire living world of the Earth is a change in geomagnetic poles. The magnetic field of our planet, which is observed today, is very similar to that which would create a giant bar magnet placed in the center of the Earth, oriented along the north-south line. More precisely, it should be installed so that its magnetic North Pole is directed to the Geographic South Pole and its Magnetic South Pole to the Geographic North Pole.
However, this situation is not permanent. Research over the past four hundred years has shown that magnetic poles revolve around their geographic counterparts, shifting by about twelve degrees every century. This value corresponds to the velocities of currents in the upper core of ten to thirty kilometers per year. In addition to gradual shifts of the magnetic poles approximately every five hundred thousand years, the earth's magnetic poles change places. The study of the paleomagnetic characteristics of rocks of different ages allowed scientists to conclude that the time of such reversals of magnetic poles took at least five thousand years. A complete surprise for scientists studying life on Earth was the results of an analysis of the magnetic properties of a lava flow about a kilometer thick, which poured out 16.2 million years ago and was recently found in the east of the Oregon desert.
Her research, led by Rob Coey of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Michel Privota of the University of Montpelier, made a splash in geophysics. The obtained results of the magnetic properties of the volcanic rock objectively showed that the lower layer solidified at one position of the pole, the core of the flow - when the pole moved, and, finally, the upper layer - at the opposite pole. And all this happened in thirteen days. The Oregon find suggests that Earth's magnetic poles may not be swapping over the course of a few thousand years, but as little as two weeks. The last time this happened was about seven hundred and eighty thousand years ago. But how can this threaten all of us? Now the magnetosphere envelops the Earth at an altitude of sixty thousand kilometers and serves as a kind of shield in the path of the solar wind. If a change of poles occurs, the magnetic field during the inversion will decrease by 80-90%. Such a drastic change will surely affect various technical devices, the animal world and, of course, humans.
True, the inhabitants of the Earth should be somewhat reassured by the fact that during the change of the Sun's poles, which occurred in March 2001, the disappearance of the magnetic field was not recorded.
Therefore, the complete disappearance of the protective layer of the Earth, most likely, will not happen. Magnetic pole reversal cannot be a global catastrophe. The very existence of life on Earth, which has repeatedly experienced an inversion, confirms this, although the absence of a magnetic field is an unfavorable factor for the animal world. This was clearly demonstrated by the experiments of American scientists, who built two experimental chambers back in the sixties. One of them was surrounded by a powerful metal shield that reduced the strength of the earth's magnetic field hundreds of times. In another chamber, earthly conditions were preserved. Mice and seeds of clover and wheat were placed in them. Several months later, it turned out that the mice in the shielded chamber lost their hair faster and died earlier than the control ones. Their skin was thicker than that of the other group. And she, swelling, forced out the root hair follicles, which was the cause of early baldness. The plants in the non-magnetic chamber also showed changes.
It will be difficult for those representatives of the animal kingdom, for example, migratory birds, who have a kind of built-in compass and use magnetic poles for orientation. But, judging by the sediments, mass extinction of species during the inversion of the magnetic poles did not occur before. Apparently, it will not happen in the future either. Indeed, even despite the tremendous speed of movement of the poles, the birds cannot keep up with them. Moreover, many animals, such as bees, are guided by the Sun, and marine migratory animals use more of the magnetic field of rocks on the ocean floor than the global one. Navigation systems, communication systems created by people, will undergo serious tests that can disable them. Numerous compasses will have a very bad time - they will simply have to be thrown away. But with a change of poles, there may be "positive" effects - huge aurora borealis will be observed all over the Earth - albeit for only two weeks.
Mikhail TARANOV "UFO"