Visit science.nasa.go... for more! Something big is happening on the sun. The sun's global magnetic field is about to flip, a sign that Solar Max has arrived.
How come I haven't heard of this before? I mean this sounds pretty important. Also does this happen to all stars? and does it happen to planets such as our own? Imagine if every 10000 years on earth we had to change where the signs are on our compasses haha
Now, this here's a story all about how my sun got flipped/turned upside down, and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, and listen to physicist Phil Scherrer.
Every time I watch one of these episodes, I learn something strange and fascinating that I never knew about our universe. Without a doubt, this is one of the best channels on UA-cam.
i am curious what would be the scenario for a similar magnetic reversal on planet earth? although far less frequently these cycles seem to take place fairly regularly also
VERY CONFUSED-she sometimes says the field reverses at maximum, and sometimes that it occurs at the minimum (producing pairs of whole cycles in alternate polarity)...
We have a lot of people with less than a 6th grade scientific literacy, and when one understands science the whole world opens up like a lotus flower blooming. I have no idea what the world must seem like to them but I can imagine it must be scary and many escape through drugs. The people who generate fake controversy are mostly religious, they also have a dark age view of the world and live in perpetual doomsday fear.
I think the interesting thing here is that his eyebrows are so bushy yet he stares at the sun as an occupation without getting them burned haha now that's science
that's an excellent question, in my book the old cycle # 24 finished on the 17th may 2013, cycle #25 starts on the 28th july 2014 with a reverse polarity, the sun is now at solar minimum and the planets around the solar system should show signs of cooling, keep your eye on the north west passage, it's earth's canary in the coal mine for climate.
Yes, Phil. You're spot on friend. Wallace Thornhill and Don Scott have more comprehension of how the solar system and the Cosmos work than any two fellas on the planet. They would of course have chuckled, as I'm sure you did, at the newbie errors in logic that riddle this and other NASA science-as-newscast videos. But at least they are able to bring themselves now to use that verbotten "E" word : ELECTRICITY, even if they do have the entire thing backwards. This is clear progress
3 years for some types of solar radiation to get to us. What are the effects? I know solar flares matter, but this report talks about the Sun but not much about the applications of the information.
Sorry... I just realized that I improperly worded my previous reply. Increased solar activity (and resulting auroras) are NOT likely caused by the magnetic field reversal. The reversal simply signals the peak of activity which is during a time of maximum solar activity.
Whats with all the idiots in the comments? Its just some scientists telling the public "hey this is gonna happen, hears our evidence". whats with the controversy? Some one please give me all the views in the comments in a list of there claims.
Scientists predicted that this year sun activity will be increased greatly. Michio Kaku said that people better be ready by improving their power boxes and electricity controlling stations. Quite a few of those boxes will blow up this year. And a lot of people will lose electricity until things are repaired from that EM blast from sun.
100% right! However it will affect some technological devices and comunications but not so soon, it should have happened already but there is no prediction about when is going to happen again. I would guess...maybe more than 200 years from now to the next earth polarity flip.
I agree with their time frame as it is when Earth, Venus and Jupiter align. I wouldn't be in a plane mid 2020. The alignment is a bit off but it could be nasty. It will probably start the next solar cycle.
I accept i should have used their instead of there, but when i said idiots i was referring to the people who said stuff like:" NASA is lying" or "its more serious the government is just covering it up" and so on, I apologize for my incorrect grammar.
Sadly, yes. When the sun flips it will release a v shaped cone of solar wind that will slice earth in half, unless venus blocks it some how. Earth has had a good run.
It surely reminds me of the movie "Knowing". In the end, cages father said: "It is not the end son" and cage said "I know". When this happens it surely won't be the end, I agree.
latest SEPs impacts suggest that the earth magnetic + pole maybe has shifted southwards near to the Equator . This year the Sun did not produce so many flares as 2012 , the difference; In 2013 Sun almost only produced socalled Proton flares or SEPs( the strongest on may 21 with protons accelerated almost to c) those all have a deep Impact to the geomag field. cosmical influences? solar x ray activity becomes lowest during the soltices- ( gravity from Sagittarius "A" and/or Sirius?)
well, plainly then. i haven't researched it, but i highly doubt it. what i suspect is that they are distinguishing between the heliographic and magnetic poles; meaning that 'magnetic north' has moved away from the 'top'. otherwise i am more than baffled - i had missed that statement before.
There is no Solar Max, neither Solar Minimum. The Solar System is described by Newtonian Mechanics and works as a perfect machine, a wonderful precision clock, at perfect thermodynamic equillibrium.There is flow of energy inside the Sun because Sun is the nucleous of a system which is an evolutionary step created from atoms systems. The movement of energy inside Sun has the same equillibrium of atom nuclei flow of energy. Ok, that's a Matrix/DNA theory model, it can be wrong... also.
You don't get it :p what they observed since 1976 fit to solar cycle which been observed based on sunspot activity half of 18 century and even earlier but back then there was Maunder Minimum that disturbed solar cycles processes on sun. If it fits to solar cycles and those solar cycles been repeated for so many times it easy to assume it happens with each solar cycle.Not to mention sunspot/active region polarization also is flipped every cycle but on minimum not maximum,been observed earlier too
I think radiation storms and some solar wind blows are more dangerus then then this. On end of May (if i remeber right) there was huge hyder flare what caused big radiation storm that put down xray meassurement satellite equipment for many hours and damaged GOES13 satelite
interesting. i wonder if it will have any noticable effects here on earth. I guess the more interesting part is always the UNnoticable effects. Could it affect human behavior? i would be suprised if it had absolute zero effect or influence on the way we act.
The fliping of poles wouldn't change the path at all, although theoretically the sun should be ejecting much more material right now which could in threory slightly change the comets path nothing signifigant and the sun has been rather calm lately
no, it means that mercury passes venus for the 28th time at an asimus nearest to 78 degrees while progressing 3 degrees around the sun, which takes 11 yrs + 1 mth precisely!
god is the cosmos man. god is us. god is a giant organism which is us. we are nothing more but cells within a giant being. just like you're not human, you're 100trillion cells which make your human form which makes you assume you're human. planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies are that same pattern. Earth is a living organism comprised of trillions of living things. WE ARE GOD MAYNE!!!!!!!!! nothing exists dude. the physicality is virtual reality. this is the basics. you. are. not. real.
magnetic flip obviously means, that electrons within the suns magnetosphere will change their direction, Same as on the earth, the Northern Pole is currently the + or "gravity" pole attrackting solar electrons (measurable esp. after SEP events, The Southern pole contains more energetic electrons (-) attrackting solar protons. My theory: The Sun`s Center of gravity is NOT located right in its middle. and shifts all 11y to the South/ North, Then electrons will also change their direction
So, after 30 centuries, only 3000 years, we have gained 9 exponents and the and the leading coefficient has little more than doubled. At this rate we will have gained 18 exponents in 60 centuries and the leading coefficient will be approximately 4.2, in other words a little more than 4.2x10^18 tonnes of mass lost from the Earth in six millennia. At that rate there would be nothing left of the Earth in 7,000 years. Of course it won't occur exactly like that, but it will be a similar process.
2.2 billion until what? I think you mean 2.3 until the sun's radius reaches Earth's orbit today. But even if that happens, with the mass Earth has today, it will have forced the Earth out to where Mars is now, maybe even out to the Asteroid Belt. Of course, if we increase the number of spaceships we make and just keep sending bits of Earth (ships) towards the sun, every little nudge will add up and we can put the Earth in exactly the orbit we want it, when we want it there.
Relax, life has existed for nearly 4 billion years on this planet, maybe longer. We got another 3 or 4 months, tops. Plenty of time do all the things we want to and even lots of things we don't want to, but do anyway. Keep going to work, it'll happen before next tax season so no need to worry there, keep trying to score a date with that smart girl on facebook, keep getting out of your bed. In five month you can go back fighting capitalism, or promoting libertarianism, or whatever you want to do.
If you don't know this solar cycle is lackluster so far, last cycle featured 4 flares above X10 (2 of them created days worth news in main stream media... as thye happened in one day), but record of this cycle is X6.9 which happened in 2011 and only top 6 flares so far crossed X2. Number of sunspots is more then a half smaller then last cycle. Some people believe we might approaching another Maunder Minimum which been observed in 17 and 18 cencury
No one is going to die, and honestly it sounds like you need to relax a little bit, and by 'a little bit' I mean a lot. This happens roughly every 11 years, assuming you are over 11 you've been threw this before.
The Sun or the Earth? The Sun will act up, throwing mass out, so overall it will get cooler. It will always get cooler, overall, as it fuses heavier and heavier nuclei. These active moments might make the outer layers hotter as the inner layers restabilize. As for the Earth, chances are very slim we get hit by a CME bad enough to cause serious problems. Worse thing along those lines that has happened during my life was during the spring, 24 years ago. The beauty of the aurora made up for it tho.
Aaaaannndddd 2 years later, we're still waiting! XD Some crazy stuff going on. Solar "max".. looks like we're heading toward another grand minimum.
0:24 HOLY SHIT!!! He's got 2 moustaches!!
How come I haven't heard of this before? I mean this sounds pretty important. Also does this happen to all stars? and does it happen to planets such as our own? Imagine if every 10000 years on earth we had to change where the signs are on our compasses
haha
This is going to happen to the Earth too.
So how did earth respond to this reversal in the past? Weather? Quakes? what?
What a most incredible talk. Thank you NASA for sharing about this phenomena.
Now, this here's a story all about how my sun got flipped/turned upside down, and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, and listen to physicist Phil Scherrer.
I like how they can say anything and we would be like "oh, wow"
Every time I watch one of these episodes, I learn something strange and fascinating that I never knew about our universe. Without a doubt, this is one of the best channels on UA-cam.
i am curious what would be the scenario for a similar magnetic reversal on planet earth? although far less frequently these cycles seem to take place fairly regularly also
VERY CONFUSED-she sometimes says the field reverses at maximum, and sometimes that it occurs at the minimum (producing pairs of whole cycles in alternate polarity)...
*Before December 2013*
Voyager: Yay I'm reaching close the Heliopause!
*After December 2013: Curse you sun... I'm so close...
Todd's eyebrows
thanks for your comments... and what kind of phenomena would you expect around a reversal of earth's magnetic polarity?
We have a lot of people with less than a 6th grade scientific literacy, and when one understands science the whole world opens up like a lotus flower blooming. I have no idea what the world must seem like to them but I can imagine it must be scary and many escape through drugs. The people who generate fake controversy are mostly religious, they also have a dark age view of the world and live in perpetual doomsday fear.
Wait for it....wait for....it....wait......
Not everybody is totally up to speed on this stuff. I speak too fast on my videos and people are always asking me to slow down. :-)
I think the interesting thing here is that his eyebrows are so bushy yet he stares at the sun as an occupation without getting them burned haha now that's science
The universe is driven by electricity (plasma), not by gravity.
All you need is a bit of science, and you can make everybody chill :)
that's not how poles work. it's like trying to poke a hole in one side of a piece of paper.
so, it already flipped... yeah... nothing happened.
Some of your groceries turned out to be of bad produce so yeah...that happened.
yeah just like 10 years ago, I didn't even notice there was some flip on the sun..
that's an excellent question, in my book the old cycle # 24 finished on the 17th may 2013, cycle #25 starts on the 28th july 2014 with a reverse polarity, the sun is now at solar minimum and the planets around the solar system should show signs of cooling, keep your eye on the north west passage, it's earth's canary in the coal mine for climate.
Yes, Phil. You're spot on friend. Wallace Thornhill and Don Scott have more comprehension of how the solar system and the Cosmos work than any two fellas on the planet. They would of course have chuckled, as I'm sure you did, at the newbie errors in logic that riddle this and other NASA science-as-newscast videos. But at least they are able to bring themselves now to use that verbotten "E" word : ELECTRICITY, even if they do have the entire thing backwards. This is clear progress
3 years for some types of solar radiation to get to us. What are the effects? I know solar flares matter, but this report talks about the Sun but not much about the applications of the information.
Let us get ready for another 11 years to see what naughty Sun is going to do with its super power magnetic ball. Dr. Shyam
The 11 year cycle is the spot cycle not the magnetic cycle.
Sorry... I just realized that I improperly worded my previous reply. Increased solar activity (and resulting auroras) are NOT likely caused by the magnetic field reversal. The reversal simply signals the peak of activity which is during a time of maximum solar activity.
if this is the first time you have seen that guy and youre over 15 you should pay more attention to what is really important in this universe.
I thought something bad is going to happen until I saw the graph.
Whats with all the idiots in the comments? Its just some scientists telling the public "hey this is gonna happen, hears our evidence". whats with the controversy? Some one please give me all the views in the comments in a list of there claims.
0:23, the best eyebrows in science today.
I just love how they explained all the effects of this phenomenon on earth :/
That would be something, posting in 2002 on a website created in 2005 :')
lower solar activity make it cooler. The last time activity was this low was the 1970's and they were talking about global cooling.
Fantastic video program!
Scientists predicted that this year sun activity will be increased greatly. Michio Kaku said that people better be ready by improving their power boxes and electricity controlling stations. Quite a few of those boxes will blow up this year. And a lot of people will lose electricity until things are repaired from that EM blast from sun.
:26 EYEBROWS FROM HELL!!!!
I would think it does myself but I'm no scientist. Weird we don't hear much (if any) talk about it
That is something only you can look into yourself. Just keep it in mind.
100% right! However it will affect some technological devices and comunications but not so soon, it should have happened already but there is no prediction about when is going to happen again. I would guess...maybe more than 200 years from now to the next earth polarity flip.
the just observed three polar flips. How do they know that this happens all the time? Did I miss something?
Biggest eyebrows EVER; i think he has more hair on thoes eyebrows than i have on my entire HEAD.
I agree with their time frame as it is when Earth, Venus and Jupiter align. I wouldn't be in a plane mid 2020. The alignment is a bit off but it could be nasty. It will probably start the next solar cycle.
I accept i should have used their instead of there, but when i said idiots i was referring to the people who said stuff like:" NASA is lying" or "its more serious the government is just covering it up" and so on, I apologize for my incorrect grammar.
If the sun flips, does that mean every other planet in our solar system is also gonna flip too because of magnetic polarity ?!?!
Sadly, yes. When the sun flips it will release a v shaped cone of solar wind that will slice earth in half, unless venus blocks it some how. Earth has had a good run.
This makes the magnetic field seem flat.
I wonder how this affects the astronauts at the ISS? If I'm understanding correctly, the tighter/wavier pulses protect them more from cosmic rays?
Did it flip? What affects has it had?
this happens all the time
move on, everyone
somebody should've told him that using a sharpie to fill in his eyebrows was a reeeeeeally bad idea....
I like how the person reading the text is like...
"Ahhhhhhh, why do I have to read this shit? Fine... if I really have too..."
It surely reminds me of the movie "Knowing". In the end, cages father said: "It is not the end son" and cage said "I know". When this happens it surely won't be the end, I agree.
The Sun's weather has a direct result on the Earth's weather.
latest SEPs impacts suggest that the earth magnetic + pole maybe has shifted southwards near to the Equator .
This year the Sun did not produce so many flares as 2012 , the difference; In 2013 Sun almost only produced socalled Proton flares or SEPs( the strongest on may 21 with protons accelerated almost to c) those all have a deep Impact to the geomag field.
cosmical influences? solar x ray activity becomes lowest during the soltices- ( gravity from Sagittarius "A" and/or Sirius?)
well, plainly then. i haven't researched it, but i highly doubt it. what i suspect is that they are distinguishing between the heliographic and magnetic poles; meaning that 'magnetic north' has moved away from the 'top'. otherwise i am more than baffled - i had missed that statement before.
If you're going to call people idiots then perhaps you should learn to how to use there and their properly. Don't ya think?
thanks for your reply.
:0 holy crap, I knew something was going to happen... I just felt it :(
this might happen every 11 years but are megnetic field is not strong enough to pervent this solar max from creating the 2012 effect
"Ripple all the way out to the voyager probes" -> Ripples all the way out to Voyager 2 guess they forgot voyager 1 was about to leave
2.2 billion years max, but yes i agree with your point
the only thing that i think will happen is that we might get storms, like the video said.
Dumb question... how does the suns polar shift affect us directly? thanks!
Poor Todd needs a week whacker for those eye brows...wow!! Sorry dude!
So it wasn't quite clear: Do we receive more cosmic rays around the time of a reversal, or fewer rays?
So the sun will rise from the opposite direction?
nice. seems like a short cycle for such a large scale process. Just saying.
There is no Solar Max, neither Solar Minimum. The Solar System is described by Newtonian Mechanics and works as a perfect machine, a wonderful precision clock, at perfect thermodynamic equillibrium.There is flow of energy inside the Sun because Sun is the nucleous of a system which is an evolutionary step created from atoms systems. The movement of energy inside Sun has the same equillibrium of atom nuclei flow of energy. Ok, that's a Matrix/DNA theory model, it can be wrong... also.
Thx for making such great videos
The Sun must be drunk.
Ill hide in his eyebrows if the sun goes crazy
You don't get it :p what they observed since 1976 fit to solar cycle which been observed based on sunspot activity half of 18 century and even earlier but back then there was Maunder Minimum that disturbed solar cycles processes on sun. If it fits to solar cycles and those solar cycles been repeated for so many times it easy to assume it happens with each solar cycle.Not to mention sunspot/active region polarization also is flipped every cycle but on minimum not maximum,been observed earlier too
Oh look,a video produced by NASA .Cue the nutcases and cranks
I think radiation storms and some solar wind blows are more dangerus then then this. On end of May (if i remeber right) there was huge hyder flare what caused big radiation storm that put down xray meassurement satellite equipment for many hours and damaged GOES13 satelite
interesting. i wonder if it will have any noticable effects here on earth. I guess the more interesting part is always the UNnoticable effects. Could it affect human behavior? i would be suprised if it had absolute zero effect or influence on the way we act.
Is this event related to the recent extreme weather (e.g. cold in US & heat in Australia)?
The fliping of poles wouldn't change the path at all, although theoretically the sun should be ejecting much more material right now which could in threory slightly change the comets path nothing signifigant and the sun has been rather calm lately
Didn't happen yet?
Still waiting...
Well said, I take personal responsibility for this Solar Magnetic shift!
Let's celebrate and take a day off!
He isn't against science, because he doesn't exist.
You imagined this in Morgan Freeman's voice.
Hey friend, just pre ordered my new work sharp, ken onion edition thru cabbalas :)
no, it means that mercury passes venus for the 28th time at an asimus nearest
to 78 degrees while progressing 3 degrees around the sun, which takes 11 yrs
+ 1 mth precisely!
what about earth's magnatic field .... would it flip ?
god is the cosmos man. god is us. god is a giant organism which is us. we are nothing more but cells within a giant being. just like you're not human, you're 100trillion cells which make your human form which makes you assume you're human. planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies are that same pattern. Earth is a living organism comprised of trillions of living things. WE ARE GOD MAYNE!!!!!!!!! nothing exists dude. the physicality is virtual reality. this is the basics. you. are. not. real.
magnetic flip obviously means, that electrons within the suns magnetosphere will change their direction, Same as on the earth, the Northern Pole is currently the + or "gravity" pole attrackting solar electrons (measurable esp. after SEP events, The Southern pole contains more energetic electrons (-) attrackting solar protons. My theory: The Sun`s Center of gravity is NOT located right in its middle. and shifts all 11y to the South/ North, Then electrons will also change their direction
So, after 30 centuries, only 3000 years, we have gained 9 exponents and the and the leading coefficient has little more than doubled. At this rate we will have gained 18 exponents in 60 centuries and the leading coefficient will be approximately 4.2, in other words a little more than 4.2x10^18 tonnes of mass lost from the Earth in six millennia. At that rate there would be nothing left of the Earth in 7,000 years. Of course it won't occur exactly like that, but it will be a similar process.
2.2 billion until what? I think you mean 2.3 until the sun's radius reaches Earth's orbit today. But even if that happens, with the mass Earth has today, it will have forced the Earth out to where Mars is now, maybe even out to the Asteroid Belt. Of course, if we increase the number of spaceships we make and just keep sending bits of Earth (ships) towards the sun, every little nudge will add up and we can put the Earth in exactly the orbit we want it, when we want it there.
Relax, life has existed for nearly 4 billion years on this planet, maybe longer. We got another 3 or 4 months, tops. Plenty of time do all the things we want to and even lots of things we don't want to, but do anyway. Keep going to work, it'll happen before next tax season so no need to worry there, keep trying to score a date with that smart girl on facebook, keep getting out of your bed. In five month you can go back fighting capitalism, or promoting libertarianism, or whatever you want to do.
All the Aliens go into heat...watch your ass......
If you don't know this solar cycle is lackluster so far, last cycle featured 4 flares above X10 (2 of them created days worth news in main stream media... as thye happened in one day), but record of this cycle is X6.9 which happened in 2011 and only top 6 flares so far crossed X2. Number of sunspots is more then a half smaller then last cycle. Some people believe we might approaching another Maunder Minimum which been observed in 17 and 18 cencury
every 11 yrs the sun has a bitch fit and flips the table
No one is going to die, and honestly it sounds like you need to relax a little bit, and by 'a little bit' I mean a lot. This happens roughly every 11 years, assuming you are over 11 you've been threw this before.
Start from your heart :)
The Sun or the Earth?
The Sun will act up, throwing mass out, so overall it will get cooler. It will always get cooler, overall, as it fuses heavier and heavier nuclei. These active moments might make the outer layers hotter as the inner layers restabilize.
As for the Earth, chances are very slim we get hit by a CME bad enough to cause serious problems. Worse thing along those lines that has happened during my life was during the spring, 24 years ago. The beauty of the aurora made up for it tho.
How can they have observed this 23 times if they have started to observe them in 1976?