At 06:44 AM 10/31/98 -0500, Dennis C. Lee wrote:
>Could gyros be put on the polar icecap to make it levitate? The management
>by crisis approach might be to wait until the icecap starts the catastrophic
>slip process, then start the antigravity devices to lift the whole icecap at
>once. The antigravity devices would be properly load rated for the icecap
>weight and evenly distributed so that tractor fields would cover the entire
>icecap surface area to ensure that nothing breaks off and drops. It would
>then ascend to a safe self sustaining altitude.
Here is a bit more info on how a polar shift might happen.
Since the gyroscopic effect of total mass of the earth is too great for the
entire mass to shift, a polar shift would only effect the crust of the
earth. It is helpful to think of the crust as being held in place by a
magnetized magnetic fluid. This magnetic fluid is like the magnetic fluid
in speakers which is held in the gap between the magnet structure and the
coil by the magnetic field of the magnet structure. (In the speaker the
magnetic fluid is used to transfer heat from the coil to the more massive
magnetic structure.)
The uppermost layer of the mantle would be this magnetic fluid. It is made
more rigid by the earth's magnetic field. If the earth's magnetic field
were to reverse, as sometimes happens, the magnetic field would not be
holding this magnetic fluid in place to the same extent. If, when a
magnetic reversal happened, the crust of the earth was also out of balance,
there would be the possibility of the crust slipping on the mantle of the
earth.
It would help to imagine a sphere, like a baseball, with a gyroscope
inside. Imagine that the core of this baseball is coated with a viscous
oil which changes its viscosity depending on the strength of the magnetic
field surrounding it. If the viscosity of the oil was high, because of a
strong magnetic field, and you grabbed the outside of the baseball and
tried to twist it counter to the spin of the gyroscope inside, it would
resist your twist quite effectively. But if you did the same thing and the
magnetic field was weak, the oil would act as a lubricant and allow the
skin of the baseball to follow the twist imparted by your hand while the
gyroscopic core of the baseball remained aligned to the spin of the gyroscope.
With the earth, the crust is also keyed to the core by bumps and swales in
the mantle. These bumps and swales are not as detailed as the relief you
see on a map but, rather, would conform to the ups and downs of ocean
basins vs continental masses. If the crust slipped in relation to the
mantle, various areas of the crust would move up and others down in
relation to their position related to the bumps and swales of the magma
coated core.
This might bring about the exposure of new land masses and the subsidence
of large land areas into the sea.
According to a book titled "The Jupiter Effect" by astrophysicist John
Gribbin and physicist Stephen Plagemann, the earth's magnetic field
reversals might be triggered by a magnetic field reversal of the sun which,
in turn, might be triggered by in the region of the galaxy through which
the sun is passing. Further triggering factors would be planetary
alignments which can put stronger tidal forces into the mix.
The interaction of all of these forces would determine the rapidity and
extent of any polar shift. The rapidity and extent of a polar shift would,
in turn, relate to the effect on human civilization.
Most of the prophets who have prophesized polar shifts indicate that these
events are related to the state of human consciousness. In other words,
changing human consciousness can change the extent of these types of
disasters. The type of co-operation implied in your polar icecap
levitation proposal would be an indicator of a major change of human
consciousness. I believe that such a change in human consciousness would
be a greater mitigating factor in the possibility or extent of a polar
shift than would the levitation activity be itself.
--With kindest regards, Barry Carter <bcarter@igc.apc.org>Blue Mountain Native Forest AllianceWEB Page: http://www.triax.com/bmnfa/index.htmVoice: 541-523-3357Fax: 541-523-9438 Stupidity got us into this mess --why can't it get us out?