I received a comment yesterday on one of my article about pole shifting. This was a reaction to the fact that I said recorded previous poles shifts on Earth took about 5,000 years to complete. This comment was that a magnetic pole shift happened on the Sun recently, which is a bigger mass than Earth and it didn’t take 5,000 years to complete. Thus, a pole shift can happen on Earth and real fast.
I’d like to clarify that. The answer I’d like to make official would be: If I can peel a banana, then why can’t I peel a strawberry if they both are fruits?
Unfortunately, while kind of funny, it isn’t really a proper answer. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense and can be an official answer…But let’s elaborate a bit. First of all, the Earth and Sun aren’t like the banana and the strawberry because they both aren’t planets. That’s the first mistake of the affirmation: comparing the Sun and the Earth like being two similar things. The Sun is a star, while the Earth is a planet. This makes a huge difference because the minute you know that, you can’t compare both equally.
The other important thing to consider is that the Sun is known to be on a 11 years cycle. What does this mean? Every 11 years, there’s a magnetic pole reversal happening on the Sun. Longer cycles have been recorded of course, but it’s usually an 11 years cycle. Does the Earth have such cycle? Luckily, no.
I’m not saying a pole shift can’t happen in a single day on Earth. While there’s not much chance of seeing that happening, who knows? The problem is “If it happens on the Sun it can happen on Earth”. This is not true and it is the kind of argument too often used in different domains. The Sun and Earth are two completely different things. Don’t forget that stars are mostly made of gas, while this ain’t the case of planets.
I continue to think that “If I can peel a banana, then why can’t I peel a strawberry if they both are fruits?” is the best answer to that argument. Because even if the Sun would’ve been a planet, there’s no way you can go with that kind of argument, affirmation being true or false.
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Nice work. Keep punching. And keep those pig-ignorant doom-merchants in check. Idiots
Long Live the Earth!!!!
Thanks Craig!
Ive been watching the discovery channel and I saw a show about the end of the world in december 21 2012 and this really freaked me out like i haven’t been able to eat for days so i looked on google and you tube and they talk about like: an ice age, meteorite hitting earth, polar shift, and even aliens and my friends/family have been saying it wont happen but it still doesen’t make me feel better what do u think will happen? thank you
Hi Aaron!
You can have a look at some articles I’ve written covering the subject:
http://www.dailycommonsense.com/2012-explained-why-it-shouldnt-be-feared/
Hope this helps!
Ben.
three cheers for ben long live earth and humanity
i fail to see what fruit has to do with any of this, let alone how anyone can compare peeling a fruit to pole shifts. I prefer to look at this from a different angle, planet star whatever you want to name it the fact of the matter is that they are both massive bodies in a place where time and distance cant even be measured as it doesn’t even exist. for example; measure from the tip of your index finger to your wrist, there is an infinite amount of space between those two points just because you can measure it doesn’t mean that its finite. The same goes for our universe. just because something hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it can’t or never will. Actually its when we start trying to think we are more intelligent than something infinite that we usually end up completely incorrect. Humans are completely random. We stumble into things and proclaim that we are intelligent beings. When in actuality we are walking in a foreign universe carrying only speck of wisdom in the greater scheme of things.
There’s no direct link between a pole shift on Earth and a pole shift on the Sun. It’s possible for such a thing to happen on Earth, but there are absolutely no correlation with a pole shift on the Sun. End of the story, it has nothing to do with the Universe being infinite.
I read similar article also named le shift happened on the Sun, it can happen on Earth too., and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me