Giant Breach in Earth’s Magnetic Field – end times

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In 2007, a giant breach was found in the earth’s magnetic sphere, producing results that surprised scientists. The full effects of this will be seen at the peak (2012) of solar cycle 24, when solar storms are the greatest. Are we ready? Does the Bible predict anything about this?

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A passage in the Book of Revelation describes an event with the sun that afflicts mankind:

Rev 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

Rev 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

The next “bowl” that is poured out produces darkness:

Rev 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

I wonder if these 2 “vial” events are related. Science has just discovered a breach in the protective shield around the earth, which would normally protect against such events. Here is the story:

Associated Press Dec. 16, 2008:

NASA’s five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a
breach in Earth’s magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to “load up” the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic
storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise.

Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics.

“At first I didn’t believe it,” says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. “This finding fundamentally alters our understanding of the solar wind – magnetosphere interaction. “

Normal shield conditions:

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The magnetosphere is a bubble of magnetism that surrounds Earth and protects us from solar wind. Exploring the bubble is a key goal of the THEMIS mission, launched in February 2007. The big discovery came on June 3, 2007, when the five probes serendipitously flew through the breach just as it was opening.

Onboard sensors recorded a torrent of solar wind particles streaming into the magnetosphere, signaling an event of unexpected size and importance.

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“The opening was huge—four times wider than Earth itself,”  says Wenhui Li, a space physicist at the University of New  Hampshire who has been analyzing the data. Li’s colleague Jimmy Raeder, also of New Hampshire, says “1027 particles per second were flowing into the magnetosphere—that’s a 1 followed by 27 zeros. This kind of influx is an order of magnitude greater than what we thought was possible.”

The event began with little warning when a gentle gust of solar wind delivered a bundle of magnetic fields from the Sun to Earth.

Like an octopus wrapping its tentacles around a big clam, solar magnetic fields draped themselves around the magnetosphere and cracked it open.

The cracking was accomplished by means of a process called “magnetic reconnection. ” High above Earth’s poles, solar and terrestrial magnetic fields linked up (reconnected) to form conduits for solar wind. Conduits over the Arctic and Antarctic quickly expanded; within minutes they overlapped over Earth’s equator to create the biggest magnetic breach ever recorded by Earth-orbiting spacecraft.

Above: A computer model of solar wind flowing around Earth’s
magnetic field on June 3, 2007.

Background colors represent solar wind density; red is high density, blue is low. Solid black lines trace the outer boundaries of Earth’s magnetic field.

Note the layer of relatively dense material beneath the tips of the white arrows; that is solar wind entering Earth’s magnetic field through the breach. Credit: Jimmy Raeder/UNH.

The size of the breach took researchers by surprise. “We’ve seen things like this before,” says Raeder, “but never on such a large scale. The entire day-side of the magnetosphere was open to the solar wind.”

The circumstances were even more surprising. Space physicists have long believed that holes in Earth’s magnetosphere open only in response to solar magnetic fields that point south. The great breach of June 2007, however, opened in response to a solar magnetic field that pointed north.

“To the lay person, this may sound like a quibble, but to a space physicist, it is almost seismic,” says Sibeck. “When I tell my colleagues, most react with skepticism, as if I’m trying to convince them that the sun rises in the west.”

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Traditional expectation:

Here is why they can’t believe their ears:  The solar wind presses against Earth’s magnetosphere almost directly above the equator where our planet’s magnetic field points north. Suppose a bundle of solar magnetism comes along, and it points north, too. The two fields should reinforce one another, strengthening Earth’s magnetic defenses and slamming the door shut on the solar wind. In the language of space physics, a north-pointing solar magnetic field is called a “northern IMF” and it is synonymous with shields up!

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What Happened instead:

“So, you can imagine our surprise when a northern IMF came along and shields went down instead,” says Sibeck. “This completely overturns our understanding of things.”

Northern IMF events don’t actually trigger geomagnetic storms, notes Raeder, but they do set the stage for storms by loading the magnetosphere with plasma. A loaded magnetosphere is primed for auroras, power outages, and other disturbances that can result when, say, a CME (coronal mass ejection) hits.

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Solar Cycle 24 – we are in this now:

The years ahead could be especially lively. Raeder explains:  “We’re entering Solar Cycle 24. For reasons not fully understood, CMEs in even-numbered solar cycles (like 24) tend to hit Earth with a leading edge that is magnetized north. Such a CME should open a breach and load the magnetosphere with plasma just before the storm gets underway. It’s the perfect sequence for a really big event.”

Sibeck agrees. “This could result in stronger geomagnetic storms than we have seen in many years.”

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2012:

Observations from Themis show the Earth’s magnetic field occasionally develops two cracks, allowing solar wind — a stream of charged particles spewing from the sun at 1 million mph (1.6 million kph) — to penetrate the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Last summer, Themis calculated a layer of solar particles to be at least 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) thick in the outermost part of the Earth’s magnetosphere, the largest tear of the protective shield found so far.

“It was growing rather fast,” Themis scientist Marit Oieroset of the University of California, Berkeley told an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Scientists initially believed the greatest solar breach occurs when the Earth’s and sun’s magnetic fields are pointed in opposite directions. But data from Themis found the opposite to be true. Twenty times more solar wind passed into the Earth’s protective shield when the magnetic fields were aligned, Oieroset said.

Jimmy Raeder, a physicist with the University of New Hampshire, predicted a more intense solar cycle. That’s because the Earth’s and the sun’s magnetic fields will be in sync at the cycle’s peak, expected in 2012, that will cause an influx of solar particles, Raeder said.

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Read more here :

The Emerging Sunspot Cycle 24 and a Weakening Magnetic Field

http://www.alexansary.com/Editorial/Sun%20spots%20and%20a%20weakened%20magnetic%20field.html

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Thoughts:

Whether one has a spiritual interpretation of this or not, a major solar storm that penetrates, and enters, earth’s atmosphere could not only knock out power, but affect crops, water, food, and human health. In such situations, society tends to get chaotic, and more dangerous. If, and I stress the word, “if,” such an event should occur in the future, will we be prepared, and how will we respond?

Also, for those who do NOT believe in the Bible, such things were predicted to occur in the end times. I hope you will think about these things, and consider reading more about what the Bible has to say about earth changes. It may save your life.

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See also:

The upcoming Solar cycle 24, and its effects Click here for more.

Earthquakes connected to end time events, Click here for more.

Star signs in the end times. Click here for more.

To read about famine in the end times Click here for more

Signs in the Sun and the Moon before the Day of the Lord Click here for more