ScienceCasts: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip

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Something big is happening on the sun. The sun's global magnetic field is about to flip, a sign that Solar Max has arrived.

[@111BR]

0:24 HOLY SHIT!!! He's got 2 moustaches!!

[@1rgam3r]

Aaaaannndddd 2 years later, we're still waiting! XD Some crazy stuff going on. Solar "max".. looks like we're heading toward another grand minimum.

[@11carlinj]

How come I haven't heard of this before? I mean this sounds pretty important. Also does this happen to all stars? and does it happen to planets such as our own? Imagine if every 10000 years on earth we had to change where the signs are on our compasses haha

[@fkn666]

0:23, the best eyebrows in science today.

[@llK1NGp1Nll]

This is going to happen to the Earth too.

[@frasercain]

Not everybody is totally up to speed on this stuff. I speak too fast on my videos and people are always asking me to slow down. :-)

[@moondreamer1]

So how did earth respond to this reversal in the past? Weather? Quakes? what?

[@deeliciousplum]

What a most incredible talk. Thank you NASA for sharing about this phenomena.

[@jpariury]

Now, this here's a story all about how my sun got flipped/turned upside down, and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, and listen to physicist Phil Scherrer.

[@rkpetry]

VERY CONFUSED-she sometimes says the field reverses at maximum, and sometimes that it occurs at the minimum (producing pairs of whole cycles in alternate polarity)...

[@Daniel-ez7gl]

I like how they can say anything and we would be like "oh, wow"

[@KiaraWindrider]

i am curious what would be the scenario for a similar magnetic reversal on planet earth? although far less frequently these cycles seem to take place fairly regularly also

[@KiaraWindrider]

thanks for your comments... and what kind of phenomena would you expect around a reversal of earth's magnetic polarity?

[@sbuzzno]

Wait for it....wait for....it....wait......

[@vlefteris]

It surely reminds me of the movie "Knowing". In the end, cages father said: "It is not the end son" and cage said "I know". When this happens it surely won't be the end, I agree.

[@ArchaicVision]

Todd's eyebrows

[@onelowerlight]

Every time I watch one of these episodes, I learn something strange and fascinating that I never knew about our universe. Without a doubt, this is one of the best channels on KZbin.

[@danielalapada3922]

*Before December 2013* Voyager: Yay I'm reaching close the Heliopause! *After December 2013: Curse you sun... I'm so close...

[@mightili]

Scientists predicted that this year sun activity will be increased greatly. Michio Kaku said that people better be ready by improving their power boxes and electricity controlling stations. Quite a few of those boxes will blow up this year. And a lot of people will lose electricity until things are repaired from that EM blast from sun.

[@tatjy93]

I just love how they explained all the effects of this phenomenon on earth :/

[@Superfluous.]

I like how the person reading the text is like... "Ahhhhhhh, why do I have to read this shit? Fine... if I really have too..."

[@TTillahFK]

Screw the pole reversal - what we have just seen here are a set of the most amazing eyebrows in history on man!

[@ShadowriverUB]

If you don't know this solar cycle is lackluster so far, last cycle featured 4 flares above X10 (2 of them created days worth news in main stream media... as thye happened in one day), but record of this cycle is X6.9 which happened in 2011 and only top 6 flares so far crossed X2. Number of sunspots is more then a half smaller then last cycle. Some people believe we might approaching another Maunder Minimum which been observed in 17 and 18 cencury

[@Kazzimirski]

No, the trajectory of the comet ISON will not be affected by this. Magnetic fields have only an effect on charged particles and comets are made out of neutral particles. So the comet's trajectory won't be changed. Maybe the size and/or brightness of the comet's tail might be slightly affected by a change in solar wind intensity/velocity, although I don't really know that.

[@junipertreeb]

Did it flip? What affects has it had?

[@justjazzieful]

the narrator has the kind of voice that could tell me the sun is blowing up tomorrow and I would feel calm,peaceful and content...geez

[@SPAZTICCYTOPLASM]

I accept i should have used their instead of there, but when i said idiots i was referring to the people who said stuff like:" NASA is lying" or "its more serious the government is just covering it up" and so on, I apologize for my incorrect grammar.

[@Sanchez9531]

yeah just like 10 years ago, I didn't even notice there was some flip on the sun..

[@noahdebeaulieu7025]

so, it already flipped... yeah... nothing happened.

[@SuperAdnan117]

Some of your groceries turned out to be of bad produce so yeah...that happened.

[@iampaco]

I think the interesting thing here is that his eyebrows are so bushy yet he stares at the sun as an occupation without getting them burned haha now that's science

[@328mic001]

1.044291492 10+26 Volts is Sun electrostatic potential.And out of these constants can be calculated precisely radius of electrons: re = 2.820947793 10-15 m area = 9.999999116 m² D = 5.641895587 10-15 m O = 1.772453773 10-14 m fres. = 1.691397895 Hz Which means that the Coulomb constant look like this: re/8.979355709 * 10 +9 = π 10-10 1e = 0.01044291492 / (8.987551787 * 10-16) = 1.161930885 10-19

[@px200easy]

My understanding is Yes they will flip. North will become South and South will be North. It happens on a regular basis. I am not positive but I think it is something like every 3 - 400,000 years or so. Please correct me if I'm way off the mark.

[@sssdeecee]

Sorry... I just realized that I improperly worded my previous reply. Increased solar activity (and resulting auroras) are NOT likely caused by the magnetic field reversal. The reversal simply signals the peak of activity which is during a time of maximum solar activity.

[@welshfluteplayer]

The 11 year cycle is the spot cycle not the magnetic cycle.

[@er3L]

that's not how poles work. it's like trying to poke a hole in one side of a piece of paper.

[@rx327prime]

The universe is driven by electricity (plasma), not by gravity.

[@TheMatrixDNA]

Theoretical models by Matrix/DNA Theory suggests a different explanation for this flip. This magnetic pole shift happen in the Sun by the same mechanism discovered by physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hideki Ywkawa which produces proton changes into a neutron and vice versa, in the atomic nucleus. Each magnetic field has a conical shape and the two are coupled in the region of the solar core. The reversal of the poles is an evolutionary process from the atomic nuclear reversal between protons and

[@Balaurix]

All you need is a bit of science, and you can make everybody chill :)

[@brandant2012]

I hope comet ison doesn't mess with the sun during this transition jeez

[@markspann]

Yes, Phil. You're spot on friend. Wallace Thornhill and Don Scott have more comprehension of how the solar system and the Cosmos work than any two fellas on the planet. They would of course have chuckled, as I'm sure you did, at the newbie errors in logic that riddle this and other NASA science-as-newscast videos. But at least they are able to bring themselves now to use that verbotten "E" word : ELECTRICITY, even if they do have the entire thing backwards. This is clear progress

[@Whittikay]

this happens all the time move on, everyone

[@Birthdayboymusic]

I'd be interested to know what this does for our weather systems here on Earth. Also, I see a couple comments claiming that you are not stupid, when the preceding text indicates otherwise. This isn't "propaganda." This is interesting, factual science.

[@blackwizardzeref592]

lower solar activity make it cooler. The last time activity was this low was the 1970's and they were talking about global cooling.

[@tuvoca825]

3 years for some types of solar radiation to get to us. What are the effects? I know solar flares matter, but this report talks about the Sun but not much about the applications of the information.

[@climateclimateclimate-kend2017]

that's an excellent question, in my book the old cycle # 24 finished on the 17th may 2013, cycle #25 starts on the 28th july 2014 with a reverse polarity, the sun is now at solar minimum and the planets around the solar system should show signs of cooling, keep your eye on the north west passage, it's earth's canary in the coal mine for climate.

[@steveharvey4245]

We have a lot of people with less than a 6th grade scientific literacy, and when one understands science the whole world opens up like a lotus flower blooming. I have no idea what the world must seem like to them but I can imagine it must be scary and many escape through drugs. The people who generate fake controversy are mostly religious, they also have a dark age view of the world and live in perpetual doomsday fear.

[@Rudis66]

PMSL...you just gave me the best laugh I've had all day Kicknotes...thanks dude

[@kingofcobwebs]

Nice. And the song immediately following that one seems to fall in line with many of the comments I've read here!

[@ShadowriverUB]

You don't get it :p what they observed since 1976 fit to solar cycle which been observed based on sunspot activity half of 18 century and even earlier but back then there was Maunder Minimum that disturbed solar cycles processes on sun. If it fits to solar cycles and those solar cycles been repeated for so many times it easy to assume it happens with each solar cycle.Not to mention sunspot/active region polarization also is flipped every cycle but on minimum not maximum,been observed earlier too

[@RieAZ123]

:26 EYEBROWS FROM HELL!!!!

[@rEsonansDx]

I thought something bad is going to happen until I saw the graph.

[@hisss]

That would be something, posting in 2002 on a website created in 2005 :')

[@thuringwethil93]

No one is going to die, and honestly it sounds like you need to relax a little bit, and by 'a little bit' I mean a lot. This happens roughly every 11 years, assuming you are over 11 you've been threw this before.

[@Clenon77]

For those of us who's add kicked in too quickly, what happens when the magnetic field flips?

[@ShadowriverUB]

It fits to solar cycles which was observed 23 times (+1 we currently in), polar flip might even cause of cycle as main reason of sunspot showing up is magnetic fields going crazy.

[@luchiadance]

That is something only you can look into yourself. Just keep it in mind.

[@lighttowers]

magnetic flip obviously means, that electrons within the suns magnetosphere will change their direction, Same as on the earth, the Northern Pole is currently the + or "gravity" pole attrackting solar electrons (measurable esp. after SEP events, The Southern pole contains more energetic electrons (-) attrackting solar protons. My theory: The Sun`s Center of gravity is NOT located right in its middle. and shifts all 11y to the South/ North, Then electrons will also change their direction

[@BirthSentient]

Komadin, is is easier to explain when you embody it as an innerstanding and when you do there is no need to explain it.

[@DragonSlayerKillX]

Didn't happen yet?

[@honestcheetah]

Still waiting...

[@loveofgaia1]

Coincidence that it coincides with the passage of Ison? If it really flips every 11 years than why are we hearing this for the first time???

[@TheHONKYLIPS]

if this is the first time you have seen that guy and youre over 15 you should pay more attention to what is really important in this universe.

[@CedrickVillasenor]

nice. seems like a short cycle for such a large scale process. Just saying.

[@seapeddler]

Sound pressure from sun, as well as electrical field.

[@DantesDarkside]

How can they have observed this 23 times if they have started to observe them in 1976?

[@charliebadger]

no...they didn't have youtube in those days xx

[@328mic001]

where my formula (c / 2 * π) ³ used as the main base for getting potential values produced a square of speed C for the determination of the same potential for a single point (coulomb ).

[@rdmajumdar]

Did anyone else notice the gradual decay in the maximum absolute amplitude of the polar field in that Solar Polar Field Strength vs time plot? The first negative maxima is higher than the second positive maxima which is higher than the second negative maxima. What's up with that?

[@ktaylor8746]

The eyebrows are definitely the highlight of this video!

[@kwaynem83]

His eyebrows actually evolved to shade his eyes from the sun while he studies it.

[@hisss]

That literally made me laugh out loud. Thanks!

[@hopperhorse123]

They said when the sheet is ripply though, it works better, which is is during the reversal?

[@galaxia4709]

Start from your heart :)

[@jamisonshaw2509]

Don't worry, we will be shielded by that guys gigantic eyebrows.

[@superhumansight]

It said that the northern hemisphere had already flipped polarization. "the northern hemisphere has already flipped sign and the southern hemisphere is racing to catch up." I think your analogy is over simplified.

[@ShadowriverUB]

Not much, bigger problems are flares that appers every solar cycle

[@naseembass9996]

Sadly, yes. When the sun flips it will release a v shaped cone of solar wind that will slice earth in half, unless venus blocks it some how. Earth has had a good run.

[@kolonglangitMu]

What.? They didn't teach us about it at school.. hmm.. The magnetic flip?? Its amazing..

[@georgerothery]

I must say Pacior, I noticed the eye brows however it did not detract from the information contained within. I would like to know how often these polar shifts occur?

[@er3L]

this will not end well.

[@harrisonhicks9697]

If you're going to call people idiots then perhaps you should learn to how to use there and their properly. Don't ya think?

[@pushpush99]

this might happen every 11 years but are megnetic field is not strong enough to pervent this solar max from creating the 2012 effect

[@Arthelshow]

SO THIS IS WHY IT'S COLD WHERE I AM!

[@RMJ1984]

Biggest eyebrows EVER; i think he has more hair on thoes eyebrows than i have on my entire HEAD.

[@Funwithfiverrs]

My pole was pointing totally northward. It flipped south quickly after hearing this chick's voice.

[@Hermunkle]

We in the scientific comunnity refer to that as the "Hoeksema effect"

[@ezdeezytube]

Question regarding this video: If the sun's north pole has already "changed sign", yet the south pole has not, are you inferring that the sun currently has two magnetic south poles now? I didn't think that was possible.

[@GIANTSECRETS]

I agree with their time frame as it is when Earth, Venus and Jupiter align. I wouldn't be in a plane mid 2020. The alignment is a bit off but it could be nasty. It will probably start the next solar cycle.

[@SunShine8308]

I had no idea that the Voyager probes were that far out! I find space interesting in short bouts but it is hard to know where to start! From, -'tarotworldtour'

[@PomPom581]

The real question is ... Will it blend?

[@Ktmfly3r]

@Bruno Naletto Ok, so, assuming that you have no hope, why is it that you are here versus dead? Cause if there was nothing afterwards, then why do we need to do things for other people, eat food, go to the bathroom, wait for everyone else in line, sleep, and work, when we can just off ourselves so that we don't have to keep doing those things.(for nothing)

[@sstrama]

Let us get ready for another 11 years to see what naughty Sun is going to do with its super power magnetic ball. Dr. Shyam

[@lilmissbhaven36]

quote "the suns two poles are ODDLY out of sync" If this a normal solar polar flip that happens every 11 years why is this odd? quote "the north pole has already changed sine while the south pole is racing to catch up" says Shera. Can somebody with brains explain to me why we shouldnt be concerned by this?

[@PwnySlaystation01]

I wonder how this affects the astronauts at the ISS? If I'm understanding correctly, the tighter/wavier pulses protect them more from cosmic rays?

[@superhumansight]

Has it ever happened in observed history that one pole shifted before the other?

[@keving3231]

Those were eyebrows? I thought he had caterpillars crawling across his face!

[@TheMatrixDNA]

neutrons that causes the nuclear glue, adapted for the astronomical conditions, Think of the neutron as a point that inflates energy forming a balloon till exploding due the excess of energy. At his side is the proton, a balloon full of energy that empties until becoming a point and disappear for lack of energy. But when the energy decreases in the proton it is transferred to the neutron, who was declining due to lack of energy, then, the situation is reversed

[@DantesDarkside]

the just observed three polar flips. How do they know that this happens all the time? Did I miss something?

[@Yoachan]

It happens about every 11 years. Do you think it is?

[@chandan1961]

Fantastic video program!

[@hopperhorse123]

Lol I'll be out in the sun with barely anything on for 12 hours straight. Will say I gain a freckle a summer, but never a burn.