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What is the science of the magnetosphere? Excuse my ignorance - but the computer models we've seen with respect to the so-called "geodynamo" eddy effects in the various magma layers adjacent to the crust and the inner core are quite complex. When Dr. Glatzmaier's model was wound up and let go...

It's not an "exact" science While there is a small consensus on the length of time for a pole flip, it is all conjured up in a computer model - which you may observe in motion - http://www.psc.edu/science/Glatzmaier/glatzmaier.html The approximately 1000-year pole flip period, frankly, I...