{"id":87471,"date":"2019-02-06T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/are-earths-magnetic-poles-about-to-flip-and-what-will-happen-when-they-do"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:23:34","slug":"are-earths-magnetic-poles-about-to-flip-and-what-will-happen-when-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/are-earths-magnetic-poles-about-to-flip-and-what-will-happen-when-they-do","title":{"rendered":"Are Earth\u2019s Magnetic Poles About To Flip, And What Will Happen When They Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-earths-magnetic-poles-about-to-flip-and-what-will-happen-when-they-do.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a renewed interest right now in Earth\u2019s magnetic poles \u2013 specifically, whether or not they\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/article\/books-alanna-mitchell-spinning-magnet\/\">about to flip<\/a>, and what may happen. The consequences of this seemingly rapid geomagnetic backflip may sound a little ominous, but don\u2019t worry: we\u2019re not sure when the next reversal will happen, and even when it does, the risks aren\u2019t likely to be as scary as you may think.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the basics.<\/p>\n<p>As Earth\u2019s liquid, iron-rich outer core gradually cools, it sloshes around through colossal convection currents, which are also somewhat warped by Earth\u2019s own rotation. Thanks to a quirk of physics known as the dynamo theory, this generates a powerful magnetic field, with a north and south end.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/environment\/so-are-earths-magnetic-poles-about-to-flip-or-not\/\">https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/environment\/so-are-earths-magneti...ip-or-not\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a renewed interest right now in Earth\u2019s magnetic poles \u2013 specifically, whether or not they\u2019re about to flip, and what may happen. The consequences of this seemingly rapid geomagnetic backflip may sound a little ominous, but don\u2019t worry: we\u2019re not sure when the next reversal will happen, and even when it does, the risks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87471","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}