Bronte, You might find it interesting to google this issue. I'm thinking you don't understand the difference between the "magnetic poles switching" and the "ball, that the earth is, suddenly switching the direction of its spinning." It is apples and oranges. If the earth-ball switches, the crust of the earth will instantly melt from the friction. The magnetic poles, on the other hand, have and do switch ALL THE TIME -- pilots, ship captains, etc. have to always consult "the latest" measurements to determine true geological north from "magnetic north of today."
If the earth were to be shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, your fingers would not be sensitive enough to feel Mt. Everest as a "bump" on it's surface, and the oceans would be a very thin film of moisture to "your touch." Everest and ocean are merely 5/8000ths of the diameter of the earth. The crust of the earth is solid only a few miles deep, and then, the whole ball is molten. If such a ball were in your hands, the outer shell/crust would break from your slightest squeeze. We're on a very very thin layer of rock riding on hell fires. These fires would be opened to the air/space if the crust were to suddenly shift from spinning at a 1000 MPH in one direction to another -- imagine mountains smashing into mountains at 1000 MPH -- everything melts in the grinder. Everything means the entire crust -- nothing would survive -- not even bacteria. The atmosphere, oceans, and crust would all be gone -- 2500 degrees and poof. If anyone is going to survive long enough to "see the light," then the 2012 switch that is anticipated, IMO, has to be something astral rather than some catastrophe on the material level. "The sun rising twice" or as it is said in the bible "the sun stopping in the sky," can only be possible if the earth is subjected to an incredible smack from, say, a mars sized hunk of rock. The biggest strikes in earth's history have almost never caused a significant shift in the earth's spin -- too small an event. The biggest hit earth ever took was probably the time our moon was formed by such a collision between the earth a mars sized rock. There's many possible reasons the kilogram could be losing mass, and they're only beginning to try to understand that. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow! That IS news! I'm no scientist but it sounds pretty freaky indeed! I don't find it unsettling though. If it's true that the planet is moving into a new age, and all of us with it, this could be part of the transformation of matter. I wonder why it's happening? > > I've read other places that the earth is slowing losing its magnetism (nothing mainstream here, but private "unapproved" scientists have been saying so). Maybe that's related to the kilogram thing somehow. Some people think the earth is losing its magnetism because it's slowing its rotation, getting ready to stop and reverse its direction on December 21, 2012. This would not cause objects to fly off the planet, they state, because gravity holds us here, not the earth's rotation. There's some evidence in ancient texts of several cultures that suggest the earth reversing rotational direction happened in the past. For instance, one scripture (I forget from where) speaks of "the day the sun rose twice" and another describes a period when the sun rose in the west and set in the east. > > authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is downright eerie. I'm not quite sure > why I find it more unsettling than most other > "natural" mysteries that scientists are > constantly stumbling across. > > Shrinking kilogram bewilders physicists > By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer > Wed Sep 12, 5:32 PM ET > > A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder > that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly > under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight [Not > weight, mass!--JS] if ever so slightly. > > Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and > Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo > appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of > dozens of copies. > > "The mystery is that they were all made of the same material, and > many were made at the same time and kept under the same conditions, > and yet the masses among them are slowly drifting apart," he > said. "We don't really have a good hypothesis for it." > > The kilogram's uncertainty could affect even countries that don't use > the metric system it is the ultimate weight standard for the U.S. > customary system, where it equals 2.2 pounds. For scientists, the > inconstant metric constant is a nuisance, threatening calculation of > things like electricity generation. > > Read more at Yahoo News: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_sc/shrinking_kilogram > http://tinyurl.com/yo6p9t > > The comments at Digg.com are fun: > > http://digg.com/general_sciences/Shrinking_Kilogram_Bewilders_Physicis > ts_3 > http://tinyurl.com/3492dv > > My favorite: "Ron Paul would stop this." > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. >
