Re: [Phys-l] Earth's magnetic field

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

While the magnetic field is flipping - we can expect the van Allen 
Radiation Belts to be non-existent.
Without the magnetic deflection of high energy charged particles from 
the sun - we can expect a jump in the otherwise slow process of 
evolution.


At 10:07 AM -0700 1/14/11, William Robertson wrote:
> It's revealing to look first at the end of the Fox article, where they 
> offhandedly mention the flipping of the Earth's field, and then at the 
> end of the Yahoo article. Yahoo mentions the flipping of the field 
> (which really was a throwaway in the Fox article) and then says that 
> if that were to happen, then bigger changes than changing the labeling 
> of runways might take place! What, new colors also? It's no wonder 
> there are so many wrong ideas propagated by news outlets.
>
> Bill