Everyone seems abuzz about 2025 and what effects it could have on the power grid. This video for example makes me wonder what'll happen then. Or if such an event described will happen. Anyone got thoughts and theories on this? Given all the clickbait and other misleading information right now coming from all corners of the internet (including this site, though I won't name names), I am genuinely concerned about what's factual, and what's not.

There's exactly zero truth to that. When I first started discussing similar on the forum, although I never thought a reversal in any of the coming years would be possible anyway, someone linked to this article that covers a lot of this in great detail. A couple of facts to glean from this: The current weakening we're seeing is more likely something of a regression to the mean, i.e. a return to normal, as the field has been abnormally strong the past few thousand years; in fact, not only has the field been stronger for the past few thousand years than it's been for most of the last ~12,000 years or so, but the field is also currently stronger than it typically has been for the past ~2 million years or so. Even in the event that the field were to keep weakening continuously and head towards a reversal, it would take at least a few thousand years before such a reversal actually occurs; but given the above point I would personally think it unlikely for such a continuous weakening to take place, and I would guess that even if there were a reversal on the horizon somewhere the movement would be more back and forth, and take at least some tens of thousands of years. Also worth mentioning is that various charlatans either willfully or ignorantly leave out the distinction between the magnetic poles and the geomagnetic poles, and e.g. use the movement of the magnetic poles (which is expected) as a sign of geomagnetic reversal being imminent, despite the fact that the geomagnetic poles have hardly budged at all for centuries.

Is there any truth to this "Internet/Electrical Grid Apocalypse"?

July 9, 20241 yr

4 hours ago, Philalethes said:

Not sure exactly what you're disagreeing with, I don't think that's really a contentious claim. Perhaps it wasn't clear from the post, but it's quoting this paper; there doesn't really seem to be any ulterior motive as far as I can tell.

Ah yes. Totally missed that. At first glance it looked to me like someone speaking from personal/professional experience making a false blanket statement. Thanks for pointing that out. I don’t like those board formats.