Michael Foster's mention of the normal Brownian motion caused by
thermal agitation being suppressed - also raises a larger issue.
Much larger: global warming.
John Roach wrote the following for 'National Geographic News' in
2004.
"Earth's magnetic field is fading. Today it is about 10 percent
weaker than it was when German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss
started keeping tabs on it in 1845" ... If the trend continues,
the field may collapse altogether and then reverse. Compasses
would point south instead of north.... Not surprisingly, Hollywood
has already seized on this new twist in the natural-disaster
genre. Last year Tinseltown released "The Core" a film in which
the collapse of Earth's magnetic field leads to massive electrical
storms, blasts of solar radiation, and birds incapable of
navigation."
Well - I musta missed that fine film, but the idea that the
collapse of Earth's magnetic field will have unseen repercussions
(some severe) is valid ...
...and one wonders: IF (big if) the present field alignment,
especially at the poles has incorporated some large amount of
energy stored in the form of anti-entropic field alignment of all
that ice, gigatons - then what happens when the structure becomes
unaligned, due to collapse of the field?
It would likely not have been the approximately one degree of
pent-up heat, seen by Dr. Stiffler, as his magnet was much
stronger than the earth field - but it still could be
substantial - and it is just possible that some of the global
warming already seen in the polar regions is due to the
diminishing magnetic field.
Jones
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