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Publication Date: January 25, 2021

DOI:10.14738/assrj.81.9639.

Herndon, J. M. (2021). Humanity Imperiled by the Geomagnetic Field and Human Corruption. Advances in Social Sciences Research

Journal, 8 (1) 456-478.

Humanity Imperiled by the Geomagnetic Field and Human

Corruption

J. Marvin Herndon, Ph. D

Transdyne Corporation

San Diego, California, USA

ABSTRACT

Earth’s magnetic field acts as a shield, protecting life and our

electrically-based infrastructure from the rampaging, charged-particle

solar wind. In the geologic past, the geomagnetic field has collapsed,

with or without polarity reversal, and inevitably it will again. The

potential consequences of geomagnetic collapse have not only been

greatly underestimated, but governments, scientists, and the public

have been deceived as to the underlying science. Instead of trying to

refute or advance a paradigm shift that occurred in 1979, global

geoscientists, individuals and institutions, chose to function as a cartel

and continued to promote their very-flawed concepts that had their

origin in the 1930s and 1940s, consequently wasting vast amounts of

taxpayer-provided research money, and making no meaningful

advances or understanding. Here, from a first person perspective, I

describe the logical progression of understanding from that paradigm

shift, review the advances made and their concomitant implications,

and touch upon a few of the many efforts that were made to deceive

government officials, scientists, and the public. It is worrisome that

geoscientists almost universally have engaged in suppressing or

ignoring sound scientific advances, including those with potentially

adverse implications for humanity. All of this suggests that the entire

institutional structure of the geophysical sciences, funding,

institutions, and bureaucracies should be radically reformed.

Keywords: Magnetic reversals; Corona ejections; Electrical transmission

networks; Communications disruptions; Solar wind; Geomagnetic storms;

Paradigm shift; Inner core.

INTRODUCTION

Our planet’s magnetic field, sometimes called the geomagnetic field, is important, not only as a

navigational aid for many creatures [1, 2], but as a shield that protects all life on Earth from the

charged-particle rampages of the solar wind [3]. As illustrated in Figure 1, the geomagnetic field

deflects the solar wind safely around Earth.

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Figure 1. Schematic representation of the geomagnetic shield. From [4].

Neither the impinging solar wind nor the shielding geomagnetic field is constant. From time to

time, more-intense-than-usual outbursts from the sun briefly overwhelm the geomagnetic field.

During these times charge particles stream through Earth’s atmosphere lighting the Northern and

Southern skies with dazzling auroral displays and inducing dangerous and damaging electrical

currents in long metallic conductors at the surface. These sporadic events prefigure potential

calamities that will inevitably occur when the geomagnetic field weakens, reverses and/or

collapses [5].

From time to time irregularly, the geomagnetic field reverses. The last geomagnetic reversal

occurred about 786 million years ago. Our stone-age ancestors with no technological

infrastructure survived that reversal. The next geomagnetic field reversal and/or collapse will

ravage our electrically-based infrastructure, potentially wiping out two centuries of infrastructure

development [6]. One of the foremost obligations and responsibilities of scientists should be to

advance geomagnetic understanding to protect humanity. Instead, as described below, the global

geoscience community, functioning as a cartel, for decades has systematically deceived world

governments, scientists, and the public about the origin and nature of the geomagnetic field and its

potentially near-term risks to humanity’s infrastructure [5]. In the following, I provide first-hand

documentation.

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CONSENSUS NONSENSE

In 2020, Li et al. published an article entitled “Shock melting curve of iron: A consensus on the

temperature at the Earth's inner core boundary” [7]. Its title illustrates well the non-science that

permeates the geoscience establishment, specifically, the failure to understand principles of

science, which are contrary to consensus, and the nature of Earth’s interior.

In the realm of politics, concensus is a measure of the popularity of an idea, not necessarily its

correctness. In science, consensus is nonsense. At the frontiers of understanding, at the interface

of the unknown, the popularity of a concept in science is not a measure of correctness. Providing

data that supports a consensus is not the way science progresses; if consensus determines scientific

truth, progress would be impossible. Scientific paradigm-shifting revolutions inevitably overturn

consensus. Science progresses by determining what is wrong with currently-held perceptions.

When a new concept emerges in science that challenges important current thinking, the obligation

of the scientific community is to attempt to refute the new concept. If unable to do so, the new

concept should be cited in subsequent literature. To ignore or fail to cite a new concept that

challenges important current thinking, is not only poor science, but it cheats those who fund the

research, usually taxpayers, and cheats fellow scientists who might otherwise make advances on

the new concept.

Li et al. [7] join hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists who for forty years have systematically

ignored or failed to cite published contradictions to the very consensus they attempt to support.

That collective failing has wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer-provided research funding and

has misled governments officials, scientists, and the public into a false sense of security

concerning the risks and consequences of a geomagnetic reversal and/or collapse. Why? To what

end? Malfeasance by government funding-agencies and scientific publishers are partially to blame,

but so too are the scientists, some of whom are corrupt, or are afraid to speak out, or are simply

ignorant of what constitutes good science.

FUNDAMENTAL DEEP-EARTH DISCOVERIES AND DECEIT

In the following I present a historical record of the deceitful response to a challenging new concept

published in 1979 [8]. Not only has that challenging new concept been systematically ignored, but

concerted efforts have been made to deceive the public of its consequential advances, many of

which are related to geomagnetic field origin [9-13] and the next potential geomagnetic reversal

and/or collapse [5].

In 1906, Oldham discovered Earth’s iron metal core whose boundary lies about half way to the

planet’s center [14] (Figure 2). By 1930, its dimensions were well established and the core was

found to be liquid [15]. A simple picture of Earth’s interior emerged: An iron alloy core

surrounded by a silicate-rock mantle and topped with a very thin crust (discovered by

Mohorovičić in 1909 [16]). But something was missing. Earthquake waves from a large New

Zealand earthquake, instead of being shadowed by the core, were actually observed at the surface

in the shadow zone. This posed a great geoscience mystery.