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Re: Earth's Magnetic Field



VERY recent seismographic measurements show that the solid core has a
slightly different angular velocity than does the liquid core. (I
forget whether the solid velocity is presently greater or less than
that of the liquid)

When the earth's B field is reversed, the relative motions will be different.

The sun reverses its field every 11 years and the picture that is
often presented is the HPG with spontaneous, chaotic reversals.
Tangling, twisting of the flux tubes etc. (at least that's the way
Faraday would call his 'elastic' flux lines into play, winding and
unwinding as the two masses 'rock back and forth')


But I still have a problem even with that explanation. David states that the
Earth's fluid outer core is almost certainly in motion. In what frame of
reference is this motion? With respect to the solid inner core? The solid
surface? The CM of the Earth-Moon system? In using the sun's small magnetic
field at the Earth to power the Earth's interior dynamo, David
implies that the fluid core's motion is with respect to the sun.
Well, is this "third
requirement" motion (relative motion of the fluid core in the sun's magnetic
field) due to the Earth's rotational motion, it's revolutionary motion, the
vector sum of both, or some other?

poj

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