Tuesday, November 12, 2013

IN the NEWS - Sun out-of-sync

Men's hearts failing them for fear,
and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:
for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Luke 21:26

"Something is up with the sun.
Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly out of sync.
Based on historical records, astronomers say the sun this fall ought to be nearing the explosive climax of its approximate 11-year cycle of activity—the so-called solar maximum. But this peak is "a total punk," said Jonathan Cirtain, who maps solar magnetic fields.
Researchers are puzzled. They can't tell if the lull is temporary or the onset of a decades-long decline, or the wavelengths of its light.

But in this cycle, the sun's magnetic poles are out of sync, solar scientists said. The sun's north magnetic pole reversed polarity more than a year ago, so it has the same polarity as the south pole.
"The delay between the two reversals is unusually long," said solar physicist Karel Schrijver.....
At the same time, scientists can't explain the scarcity of sunspots. While still turbulent, the sun seems feeble compared with its peak power in previous decades. "It is not just that there are fewer sunspots, but they are less active sunspots," Dr. Schrijver said." WallStreetJournal
 
1) Could it be something is about to happen relating to the end?
2) Or could it be just something in the short time of modern technology that they have observed for the first time, and actually this is normal?