Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 5, 2024

Hmmm ... 🌎️🤔 maybe, maybe not [see comment(s)]

Earth's core slowed so much it's moving backward: what it could mean
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/earth-s-core-has-slowed-so-much-it-s-moving-backward-scientists-confirm-here-s-what-it-could-mean-1.6952926

* inner core intrigued researchers since 1936 discovery
* core's rotation speed, direction center of decades-long debate
* evidence that core’s spin changed dramatically in recent years
* scientists have remained divided over what exactly is happening, what it means
* changes in rotational speed follow 70-year cycle

#Earth #geology #geodynamics #geophysics

Earth’s core has slowed so much it’s moving backward, scientists confirm. Here’s what it could mean

Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery.

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@persagen From what I know, that was a misinterpretation of the scientific texts: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/25/no-earths-inner-core-is-not-reversing-the-direction-of-its-spin/
No, Earth’s Inner Core Is Not Reversing The Direction Of Its Spin

Science is hard. Writing about science can be hard too, although it’s almost never as hard as doing actual science. And yet we science writers tend to get the science wrong a lot.

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Jul 5, 2024 at 8:56pmWeb