{"id":76961,"date":"2018-03-16T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/something-unusual-is-happening-with-our-planets-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2018-03-16T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:22:46","slug":"something-unusual-is-happening-with-our-planets-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/something-unusual-is-happening-with-our-planets-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"Something unusual is happening with our planet\u2019s magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/something-unusual-is-happening-with-our-planets-magnetic-field2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What this means<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we look at our best numerical simulations of a magnetic field reversal, this is the type of pattern we see right before a reversal,\u201d says Dr. Tarduno. \u201cWe don\u2019t know if the current [anomaly] will lead to a full reversal.\u201d If the anomaly continues to grow, the patch in the outer core under Africa could be the trigger to a full pole reversal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p> If we look at our best numerical simulations of a magnetic field reversal, this is the type of pattern we see right before a reversal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/quirks\/march-17-2018-remembering-stephen-hawking-disturbance-in-earth-s-magnetic-field-and-more-1.4575653\/something-unusual-is-happening-with-our-planet-s-magnetic-field-1.4579903\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/quirks\/march-17&#45;2018-remembering...-1.4579903<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What this means \u201cIf we look at our best numerical simulations of a magnetic field reversal, this is the type of pattern we see right before a reversal,\u201d says Dr. Tarduno. \u201cWe don\u2019t know if the current [anomaly] will lead to a full reversal.\u201d If the anomaly continues to grow, the patch in the outer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}