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Go Further. Now, the magnetic field acts like a stretched rubber band pulling the magnets together. Be careful; two strong magnets can pinch your skin.
When this stored-up energy is released, some of it changes into movement energy. Well, the magnetic field that surrounds all magnets contains stored-up energy. And the way you change it will tell you which way the magnet will move. Everything in the universe follows a rule. The rule is: wherever there is stored-up energy in an object and the object is not tied down or stuck in place , then the object will be pushed in the direction that causes the stored-up energy to decrease.
The stored-up energy will be reduced and replaced by movement energy. So if two magnets are pointing with unlike-poles together north pole to a south pole , then bringing them closer together decreases the energy stored up in the magnetic field. They will be pushed in the direction that decreases the amount of stored-up energy. The big question mark about the eventual switch of the poles is what effect it will have on creatures that are already severely compromised in their ability to go where they need to go.
Electromagnetic disruptions in space can also be incredibly damaging to the technologies we depend on. Tell us about the magnetic storm of and how a British company has devised an algorithm for the insurance industry to calculate the cost of future storms. Our electronic grids are very tightly interconnected, so a failure in one part of it can cascade across the planet. There was a near miss in from an absolute super-storm that the sun let loose. This massive, once-inyears event happened to be released when the sun was facing away from our Earth.
Had it been a week or two earlier, it would have been directly facing our planet and the forensic analysis suggests that we would have been sent back to the Victorian age in terms of our electrical systems had that happened. To do that, he needed a unique formation: a thick piece of undisturbed terra cotta that had then been covered by hot basal lava from a volcano.
When terracotta is heated up, then cools down, some of the electrons in its molecular structure, will become fossil magnets. They will lay down the coordinates of the magnetic field on that exact spot of the Earth at that precise time, so you can see very precisely what was happening. Brunhes lived near Puy de Dome in the Massif Central, in the middle of France, where there are all these extinct volcanoes.
What he discovers in the terra cotta is that when this terracotta got super- heated, and then cooled again, the poles were on different sides of the planet. This was an absolutely anguishing finding for scientists at that time. They had no way of explaining how or why this would happen. They also had no way of confirming that it had happened, so there was great doubt about his finding. As a result, he never published again on the topic and died a few years later of a massive stroke at the age of But this was the first signal that the heart of the molten outer core of our planet is much more tortured than scientists had imagined.
Constant movement within the outer core is what creates our magnetic field. What Lathrop is trying to do is re-create the dynamo that we believe exists inside the core of the Earth. We know that the core is becoming increasingly volatile. If freely suspended, one pole will point toward the north. The two poles are thus named the north magnetic pole and the south magnetic pole or more properly, north-seeking and south-seeking poles, for the attractions in those directions.
Figure 2. One end of a bar magnet is suspended from a thread that points toward north. Figure 4. North and south poles always occur in pairs. Attempts to separate them result in more pairs of poles. If we continue to split the magnet, we will eventually get down to an iron atom with a north pole and a south pole—these, too, cannot be separated. The fact that magnetic poles always occur in pairs of north and south is true from the very large scale—for example, sunspots always occur in pairs that are north and south magnetic poles—all the way down to the very small scale.
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