Chapter 343: The Possible End of the World (3)
The "gravitational waves" of the Milky Way are the most direct evidence of the collision between Andromeda and the Milky Way. If the gravitational waves of Andromeda are detected again, the two galaxies will almost be 100% sure of colliding.
Professor Wang Zhi, there is a long way to go!!
Perhaps, galactic storms are not far away.
The third apocalyptic possibility, catastrophic solar activity, gives a probability of three percent.
When the sun burns out, it expands into a massive red giant star that is large enough to swallow the Earth. This scene is like Sirius A devouring the planet Tianlang, making the devoured planet disappear in both physical and biological senses. Believe that this day will happen, but not now, but in N billion years. The catastrophic activity of the sun that we should be worried about these days is solar flares.
A solar flare is an extremely intense type of solar activity. The energy released by each solar flare is not comparable to the collective explosion of nuclear warheads on the whole planet. Solar flares can cause a range of problems, such as damaging satellites, injuring unprotected astronauts, and causing power outages on Earth.
Some careful brick house animal research shows that the sun "menopause" has arrived, and the temper is getting more and more irritable. In recent years, solar flares have become more frequent and more powerful. The most vivid metaphor is that a flare in the sun's color sphere exploded, and the aftermath of the earth's atmosphere immediately appeared and echoed for a long time. A solar flare event earlier this year interrupted communications in many countries in the southern hemisphere for half a day, and many cities suffered power outages.
The "wrath" of the sun is far from being able to plunge the earth into a catastrophe, and that such a catastrophe has not occurred in the past, nor will it be in the future.
If the sun were to erupt with an unprecedented superflare, there was no guarantee that the planet would be catastrophic. This is by no means alarmist, earthquakes on Earth can be big and small, and so are solar flares.
Perhaps, the brick beast underestimated the power of solar flares. Alternatively, a super solar flare needs a fuse, and this fuse cannot be ruled out as gravitational waves formed by the "trembling" of the Milky Way.
Professor Wang Zhi raised the probability that the sun would flare and lead to the end of the world to 10 percent.
The fourth possibility of the end of the world, the earth's magnetic poles are overturned, and the probability given by the brick family is very high, ten percent. Professor Wang Zhi strongly agrees with this. Don't forget that Professor Wang Zhi is a geophysical brick master and a proud disciple of Nobel laureates in related fields.
Does the geomagnetism flip? The conclusion that the brick family is called the beast is very uniform, and it will definitely be.
Scientists in France have found that the earth has undergone about 300 geomagnetic flips in the past 200 million years, with an average of about once every 100,000-200,000 years. Preliminary studies have found that the last geomagnetic flip occurred about 700,000 years ago, a long time after the average frequency.
A scientist from a certain country studied the magnetic minerals of the Norwegian aquatic rocks, and the results "found" that the North Pole had shifted by more than 50 degrees in 20 million years.
The credibility of scientists' research, especially very mysterious research, must be reduced, and all kinds of reasons are understood. Scientists say that the Arctic is 50 degrees cheaper in 20 million years, but it may not be deflected by 100 degrees in 2 million years. This conclusion of the scientist is for reference only.
There is a huge difference between the timeline for a potential pole flip and those who believe in apocalyptic prophecies, with the former believing that it will not happen within a million years, and those who believe in the predictions of the end of the world, which believe that such a catastrophe will occur in the near future and will trigger a series of catastrophes.
Professor Wang Zhi belongs to the latter group and believes that the geomagnetic field will flip in recent years.
Professor Wang Zhi is a person who likes to use numbers jรน to speak, and he has his own theoretical basis. While other geophysicists focused on geological formations in order to understand the geomagnetic overturn, Professor Wang Zhi took a different approach to study the aurora.
Auroras are brilliant and beautiful at night due to the sun's charged particles entering the earth's magnetic field, and appear at night at high altitude in the areas near the north and south poles of the earth. The presence of the aurora at the geomagnetic south pole is called the south aurora, and the occurrence of the aurora at the geomagnetic north pole is called the aurora.
Hey, is there any correlation between the location of the aurora and the north and south poles of the geomagnetic field? If we study the location of the aurora, can we know the direction and speed of the deflection of the geomagnetic stage?
The answer is yes.
The north and south poles of the geomagnetic field are the strongest places in the geomagnetic field, when the stream of charged energetic particles from the active region of the sun flies here, due to the action of the geomagnetic field, these energetic particles are turned to the polar region, and the molecules or atoms in the upper atmosphere will be excited or ionized, and the aurora will be generated.
Professor Wang Zhi studied all the numbers since the aurora was recorded, and found a terrible conclusion: the aurora is moving inland, and the speed of the shift is getting faster and faster, showing an accelerating trend. A hundred years ago, only the Inuit people living in the Arctic could see the aurora, and a few decades later, the Russian savannah and the Canadian plains could also see the aurora, and now, almost all of them can be seen in our capital.
Believe that the geomagnetic field is deflecting and accelerating. It cannot be ruled out that the gravitational waves of the Milky Way will also produce acceleration on the geomagnetic deflection.
So what is the result of geomagnetic deflection?
Scientists now believe that during the flip of the Earth's magnetic poles, there is a period of disorder, during which the Earth's magnetic field weakens by about 10 percent, or more. Without the protection of the magnetic field, the earth will not be able to resist the radiation of powerful cosmic rays, and life on the earth will disappear at an unprecedented rate, leading to food crises, wars, and so on. Similarly, geomagnetic deflection can lead to the large-scale and frequent occurrence of volcanoes and earthquakes.
Therefore, the geomagnetic reversal leads to the end of the world, which is by no means alarmist.
The fifth possibility of the end of the world, the probability of a supervolcanic eruption occurring, is ten percent.
When it comes to supervolcanoes, the first thing that comes to mind for readers with rich scientific knowledge must be the supervolcano located in Yellowstone Park. Beneath Yellowstone National Park, there is a supervolcano known as the "most destructive" on the planet, and if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts one day, it will cover the entire central part of the country under the ash, and New York and Washington will also be affected.
In fact, Yellowstone National Park supervolcanoes are not alone, and there are others that are more powerful than him, such as the Toba supervolcano in Sumatra, Indonesia. The Canggu supervolcano in a river valley in eastern California, the Taupo supervolcano in New Zealand, the Ella supervolcano in Kagoshima in the eastern yo, and so on, are also not to be underestimated. Beneath the ocean, there are also some more powerful supervolcanoes, and not a few, not many have been discovered.