North Pole sprinting away!

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 summo 17 Dec 2019
In reply to Alan Breck:

 magnetic north moves.. it's a fact. The poles have shifted or reversed for millions of years. If you look at a graph or table, there is a perfect correlation between linear distance moved and how close it is towards the geographic north. It must be easily plotted or an approximate equation drawn up. 

It's only moving faster than ever, because we've not been around to measure it passing over the true north before. Plus technically what we call north is actually south, that's why the north needle of a compass is attracted to it, or the opposite. It's just a naming thing, but both can't be the same. 

 FactorXXX 17 Dec 2019
In reply to summo:

>  Plus technically what we call north is actually south, that's why the north needle of a compass is attracted to it, or the opposite. It's just a naming thing, but both can't be the same. 

It's not called the North Needle though.
It's called the Magnetic Needle and points to Magnetic North.
Therefore, North is still North and not South as you state.

 summo 17 Dec 2019
In reply to FactorXXX:

> It's not called the North Needle though.

> It's called the Magnetic Needle and points to Magnetic North.

> Therefore, North is still North and not South as you state.

Only if that's what people actually call it. Plus while I'm grubbling, the photo in the article shows a ship at the 90 degree point, which definitely isn't moving. 

In reply to FactorXXX:

> It's not called the North Needle though.

> It's called the Magnetic Needle and points to Magnetic North.

> Therefore, North is still North and not South as you state

Suspend a magnet and it's (what we call) the North Pole of the magnet that points to the (magnetic) North Pole (which is therefore the equivalent of a South Pole of a magnet. 

At the moment at least....


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