Copyright pending    2004      Eugene D. Richard

The Earth's Thermostat          

A thermostat is a device for the automatic regulation of temperature. The earth has gone through many temperature changes and the earliest change recorded is the glacial period which occurred about 2.2 billion years ago[1]. It is assumed that a warming period followed. The period of temperature changes for the earth for the last several million years is in the neighborhood of 250,000 years. The present time period is an exception, being approximately 700,000 years. The current warming period will end with a magnetic reversal in a matter of a decade or surely within a few decades. After this time, we will be entering a glacial period which will last an undetermined length of time. The severity of this glacial period will be determined by the earth’s thermostat.

How does this thermostat work? It works by use of free electrons which have escaped from the atom by ionization and separation due to the internal heat of the earth. In addition relativity applies to motion of electrons relative to an observer who is at rest on the surface of the earth at the equator. For electrons that are at rest on the equator at the surface of the earth, the velocity relative to that observer is zero. For electrons at the center of the earth the velocity relative to that observer is 463 meters per second.

How does relativity affect magnetic fields produced by electrons in motion? Lets do an experiment with electrons traveling eastward in relation to an observer at rest. The observer will detect a measurable magnetic field. He measures it as 10 units of magnetism. Now let the observer move in the direction of the electrons at the same speed. Then the observer will measure 0 units of magnetism because there is no relative velocity. Now let the observer move westward with the same speed that the electrons were moving eastward previously. The observer will measure 20 units of magnetism of opposite polarity to the magnetism that the observer measured when he was at rest and the electrons were moving eastward. Now let’s apply this to rotational motion of electrons within the earth at the equator. Let’s suppose that electrons at the surface of the earth are moving eastward at the same velocity as the observer at rest at the equator, which makes their relative velocity zero, as well as makes the magnetic field zero. Likewise electrons located at half the radius of the earth would be rotating with half the velocity of electrons at the surface, i.e., 237.5 meters per second.

When electrons within the earth are separated from their atoms, they move radially outward from the center of the earth in order to escape the internal heat of the earth. This may not be true for individual electrons but it is statistically true for electrons within the earth. At the present time we are in a normal magnetic field. When it reverses we will then be in a reversed magnetic field. At the time of reversal, the positive charges are on average at a distance of r+ from the center of the earth. This location determines the relative velocity and also the magnetic field at the center of the earth[2] for that time.

Upon further examination of the current normal field, one can safely say that the internal heat is increasing and the magnetic field is decreasing. What causes the internal heat of the earth to increase? One theory is that the solid core is increasing its rotational motion by one revolution in 400 years[3]. It is true that the magnetic field, H, the velocity of rotation of positive charges, v, and the direction of the applied force, F, are mutually perpendicular. The field, H, is directed toward the south geographic pole. The velocity, v, of rotation is eastward. When the magnetic field reverses, H makes a 180-degree change in direction which causes F to also make a 180-degree change but the velocity of rotation of the positive charges remains the same. This causes a decrease in the rotation rate of the earth’s core due to the force F applied to positive charges in the core. With this switch of the earth’s magnetic field from normal to reverse, the rate of rotation of the core decreases, and the heat produced in the core also decreases. Therefore the earth will go through a cooling period instead of a warming period as is happening at the present time. This description of the geographical interaction of H, v, and F is simply the mass spectrometry formula applied to the earth. The force, F, acts on positive charges within the earth and not on neutral atoms.

Now back to the earth’s thermostat which has been working quite satisfactorily for at least 2.2 billion years. If it had failed once in that time, then all life on the earth would have frozen or burned to death. An aborted reversal would not be considered a failure of the thermostat.

In conclusion, one can assume the following statements are true:

1. Increasing energy causes the solid core to gain one revolution in 400 years.
2. Increasing energy causes the surface of the earth to experience global warming.
3. Lack of heat energy causes global cooling (glacial period).
4. The rotational energy loss of earth is 6.33 x 10¹⁹ Joules per year[4] which is sufficient to supply the energy for the magnetic field of the earth.

                                                                    Copyright pending     2004     Eugene D. Richard

Proof-readers:

      Carolyn R. Abell

      Robert P. Jones

Date submitted: August 25, 2004