Boxing the compass

David Jones

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6712, 631-631

Abstract: The Earth's magnetic field reverses periodically, and such a reversal might (speculates Daedalus) be triggered by the impact of a meteor. So he proposes an imaginative and highly dangerous experiment -- an attempt to reverse the magnetic field with underground nuclear explosions in place of a meteoric impact. Such reversals have in the past been correlated with climate cooling.

Date: 1998
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