The Spirit himself bears witness with our own
spirits that we are children of God; and if we are children, then we are also
heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with the Messiah - provided we are
suffering with him in order also to be glorified with him. I don't think the
sufferings we are going through now are even worth comparing with the glory
that will be revealed to us in the future. The creation waits eagerly for the sons
of God to be revealed; for the creation was made subject to frustration - not
willingly, but because of the one who subjected it. But it was given a reliable
hope that it too would be set free from its bondage to decay and would enjoy
the freedom accompanying the glory that God's children will have. We know that
until now, the whole creation has been groaning as with the pains of
childbirth; Romans 8:16-22 (CJB)
Based upon horrific issues worldwide, we know that
bad news is on the doorstep. Now we have this report. August 5, 2013: Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun's vast magnetic field is about to flip.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/05aug_fieldflip/
"It looks like we're no more than 3 to 4 months away from a complete field reversal," says solar physicist Todd Hoeksema of Stanford University. "This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system."
A new ScienceCast video anticipates the reversal of the sun's global magnetic field. Play it
The sun's magnetic field changes
polarity approximately every 11 years. It happens at the peak of each
solar cycle as the sun's inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself. The
coming reversal will mark the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. Half of 'Solar Max'
will be behind us, with half yet to come.
Hoeksema is the director of
Stanford's Wilcox Solar Observatory, one of the few observatories in the world
that monitor the sun's polar magnetic fields. The poles are a herald of
change. Just as Earth scientists watch our planet's polar regions for signs of
climate change, solar physicists do the same thing for the sun. Magnetograms at
Wilcox have been tracking the sun's polar magnetism since 1976, and they have
recorded three grand reversals—with a fourth in the offing.
Astronomers at the Wilcox Solar
Observatory (WSO) monitor the sun's global magnetic field on a daily basis. WSO home page
Solar physicist Phil Scherrer, also
at Stanford, describes what happens: "The sun's polar magnetic fields
weaken, go to zero, and then emerge again with the opposite polarity. This is a
regular part of the solar cycle."
A reversal of the sun's magnetic
field is, literally, a big event. The domain of the sun's magnetic influence
(also known as the "heliosphere") extends billions of kilometers
beyond Pluto. Changes to the field's polarity ripple all the way out to the
Voyager probes, on the doorstep of interstellar space.
When solar physicists talk about
solar field reversals, their conversation often centers on the "current
sheet." The current sheet is a sprawling surface jutting outward
from the sun's equator where the sun's slowly-rotating magnetic field induces
an electrical current. The current itself is small, only one
ten-billionth of an amp per square meter (0.0000000001 amps/m2), but
there’s a lot of it: the amperage flows through a region 10,000 km thick and
billions of kilometers wide. Electrically speaking, the entire
heliosphere is organized around this enormous sheet.
During field reversals, the current
sheet becomes very wavy. Scherrer likens the undulations to the seams on a
baseball. As Earth orbits the sun, we dip in and out of the current
sheet. Transitions from one side to another can stir up stormy space weather
around our planet. An artist's concept of the heliospheric current sheet, which becomes more wavy when the sun's magnetic field flips. More
Cosmic rays are also affected. These
are high-energy particles accelerated to nearly light speed by supernova
explosions and other violent events in the galaxy. Cosmic rays are a
danger to astronauts and space probes, and some researchers say they might
affect the cloudiness and climate of Earth. The current sheet acts as a barrier
to cosmic rays, deflecting them as they attempt to penetrate the inner solar
system. A wavy, crinkly sheet acts as a better shield against these energetic
particles from deep space.
As the field reversal approaches,
data from Wilcox show that the sun's two hemispheres are out of synch.
"The sun's north pole has
already changed sign, while the south pole is racing to catch up," says
Scherrer. "Soon, however, both poles will be reversed, and the second half
of Solar Max will be underway."
When that happens, Hoeksema and
Scherrer will share the news with their colleagues and the public.
Credits:
Author:Dr. Tony
Phillips| Production editor: Dr. Tony
Phillips | Credit: Science@NASACould Comet ISON cause the polarity of the sun to flip?
http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2013/08/comet-ison-to-trigger-sun-pole-shift-is-this-more-proof-of-an-electric-universe-why-is-youtube-censoring-this-video-2464114.html
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