The slowing of the Earth’s core rotation
A study by Chinese scientists Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song on the slowing down of the rotation of the Earth’s core caused an uproar in the West.
Nature Geosience magazine indicates that the two geologists analyzed the seismic waves resulting from the earthquakes, and concluded that the Earth’s core “almost stopped rotating during the past decade, and could start at any moment rotating in the opposite direction.”
The two scientists say: “We analyze repeated seismic waves since the beginning of the 1990s, and we show that all paths in which previously large temporal changes occurred have undergone small changes during the past decade. This model is inherently global, and rotation within the nucleus is assumed to have stopped recently.”
The publication of this study sparked widespread controversy in the West regarding the influence of the Earth’s core on the processes taking place on the surface of the planet.
The “Washington Post” newspaper indicates in one of the topics it published that the results obtained by the two scientists make us think about the extent of the impact of the Earth’s core on the length of the day and the fluctuations of the Earth’s magnetic field.
“The changes they observed are acceptable, although what is really going on is not entirely clear,” Professor John Vidal said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
For its part, the New York Times wrote that all this sounds like preparation for a “big movie that destroys the world”, but at the same time it urged readers not to worry.