What proponents of 2012 are saying is that the Sun’s own turmoil will be so strong that Earth’s core will be dragged clockwise rather than counter-clockwise (when looking down from the North Pole). The SINGLE element of December 21, 2012 rests upon the idea that magnetic debris from the Sun, fully charged and very stimulating to see, will be in such high quantities that it will over-power Earth’s own fully charged and very stimulating magnetic workings.

It’s all basic physics and really fundamental stuff actually. Unfortunately, it’s incredibly tough to type and I’m not sure I can animate the doom’s day senario. Earth is one strong, big magnet. The Sun will do something magnificent and dangerous one day.

It’s certain that the Sun will do something. It’s certain that the Earth is a big magnet. It’s certain that junk from the Sun gets caught up in the Earth’s magnetic field. What isn’t certain is just how much junk will get caught up if the Sun flips its poles. 2012 ‘advocates’ are suggesting that there is no doubt that too much junk will get caught up and find its way around Earth like a belt.

Magnets work with opposing forces until the opposing force simply overtakes a weaker force. That’s just true. 2012 folks stick to the conviction that enough magnetic material will surround the earth finding, naturally, the halfway point between north and south. That material will align to oppose Earth’s magnetic poles. They suggest that there’s some reverse-spinning involved, but, honestly, I don’t understand that. So whether by spinning in the opposite direction or being so strong a force against the Earth’s own magnetic force, 2012 believers say that Earth’s magnetic poles will flip.

HOW COULD EARTH’S POLES FLIP?

Quickly narrated 41sec MOV illustrating worst-case senario.

Quickly narrated 41sec M4V (iPhone) of the same.

I’m happy to say that I’ve just spent most of the day putting several animations together to help illustrate some of this – it could become Bryan Applegate’s Marvelous Travelling Show Of Science. Earth simplifies to three parts: The part at the top where we live; a second sticky, melted metal and rock part forming a gooey cushion for the third part, the part that generates our magnetic fields: The Core.

For the most part, we’re insulated from The Core by the outer core, the gooey, molten stuff. The Core spins and so generates a north-south field. It spins the molten outer core and we, either stuck to the top, or floating on the top, also spin but at just a touch of a slower rate. It’s been established that the difference in spinning is 1.1 degrees. The crust or mantel won’t flip directly because it isn’t the magnetic part. The Core will or could (I haven’t decided yet) because it is the magnetic part.

The Core is spinning almost ‘freely’ within the molten goo. If enough charged particles overwhelm the magnetic field of earth, The Core will tilt and redirect itself accordingly. This movement will transfer at an unknown speed with an unknown force through the gooey outer core all the way to the mantel where we live. The effects would resemble the End Of Time and life as we know it. The catastrophe would be, in the words of an ancient race, “complete.”

So the point is this: Santa’s North Pole won’t flip or tilt. The Earth’s magnetic generator will. Every inch of ground would follow. If that happened, through various complicated causes, a map of the world 12,000 years from now could look entirely alien since continents wouldn’t be where we expect them to be.

It seems that the first results of 21DEC12 is IBS and an inability to get a full night’s sleep. Stay vigilant.

HOW WOULD THE SUN RISE IN THE WEST?

It’s easier than you think. The crust spinning is just a function of The Core spinning. Thanks to its imense momentum, it will keep spinning for millions of years regardless of most anything else. What can change is the end that it calls, “top.” Right now, the ‘top’ of The Core is spinning counter-clockwise. If huge effects from the Sun sponsor The Core to flip over to align itself with charged particles, the spinning would continue but the “top” would be spinning clockwise.

After too much thought, you come to the conclusion that whoever survived really wouldn’t care where the Sun was coming from. But that’s the answer: The spinning Core just turns over but spins just the same. Another truth is that your compass, showing you where magnetic North is, actually points SOUTH because your little North needle is attracted to Earth’s South. It’s not North you’re walking toward, it’s the direction your magnet’s north end, or positive end is pointing to in which you’re walking. So don’t bug me with e-mails about the “+” being on the south pole.

BUT SERIOUSLY, CAN WE SEE THIS COMING?

Continued in a third, less horrific post…

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