"The earth reels like a
drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its
rebellion that it falls--never to rise again."
Pole Shifts
Posted August 12, 2012
There are two types of pole shift,
and these types are quite different, so this site has two halves. As an
introduction, here is a scientific overview of each:
Geomagnetic Reversal aka Magnetic Pole Shift
The Earth’s rotation and orbit are
unaffected. The Earth’s crust stays where it is. The change is in the Earth’s
Magnetic Field.
The magnetic field deflects
particle storms and cosmic rays from the sun, as well as highly energetic
subatomic particles from deep space. Without magnetic protection, these
particles will strike Earth’s atmosphere, eroding our already thin ozone layer.
Every few hundred thousand years
the Earth’s magnetic field dwindles almost to nothing, then gradually reappears
with the north and south poles flipped. Like a giant magnet, our planet has a
North and a South, and we can locate the magnetic poles with a simple compass.
The most accepted model for our magnetic field is a dynamo action resulting
from the movement of molten iron in our planet’s core.
Such reversals happen at intervals,
ranging from tens of thousands to many millions of years, with an average
interval of approximately 250,000 years. It is believed that this last occurred
some 780,000 years ago, referred to as the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal. There
have been a total of 184 polarity intervals (that we know of) in the last 83
million years. The timing for each
appears to be random.
At present, the overall geomagnetic
field is becoming weaker. The rapid deterioration began at least 150 years ago
and has recently been accelerating – with a total decrease of 10-15% over these
150 years.
Our Sun has a magnetic field, and
this field reverses every solar maximum, which are approximately 11 years
apart, and the next one is due in late 2012 / early 2013. While the Sun’s
reversal happens at the peak of magnetic strength, here on Earth it seems
to happen when the field reaches a low
point. The last official full reversal (that we know of), was 780,000 years ago
– the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal. A recent “excursion” is considered by some to
also qualify – the Laschamp Event was just 44,000 years ago.
Crustal Displacement aka Physical Pole Shift [this may be the Biblical version of what's coming]
This concept is not accepted by
orthodox science, although it has had some distinguished fans, including Albert
Einstein. While there is evidence for displacements in relatively recent
geological times, the sticking point is a lack of internal mechanism.
With a displacement, the Earth’s
outer crust moves rapidly (as opposed to the extremely slow movement due to
plate tectonics) and slips relative to the core. The result is that land masses
end up being located at a different latitude/longitude than before the shift. A
famous piece of evidence for such a shift is the graveyard of mammoths in
Siberia. The mammoths were snap frozen. One specimen was chewing on a plant
when he died – a plant that does not live in Arctic zones. The supposition is
that the mammoths were living in a more temperate region, and a sudden pole
shift transported them to the Arctic.
According to
Charles Hapgood, the
shifts were roughly 30-40 degrees in nature, and the last one occurred
approximately 12,000 years ago.
A crustal displacement is featured
in the recent blockbuster movie 2012.
And…
There is actually a third type of
pole shift, where planet Earth’s rotation reverses. This would mean that the
directions of sunset and sunrise would reverse, East would become West and West
would become East, as described in the Bible and other ancient texts. This is
not discussed much in the modern era, primarily because a reversal of rotation
is not possible without an outside agent that would either destroy the planet,
or remove us from our pleasant orbit around the Sun.
