Space Weather and Disasters

Today, I want to address a hobby of mine: astrophysics and geophysics. This will be a bit long, because I want to introduce a set of ideas about how God does things. Let’s not forget that Our Father controls all things, so the outcome is always in His hands. However, it would appear that the grave warnings about God’s wrath on human societies that reject His revelation may include wrath from directions the vast majority of humans would never expect.

I don’t believe God created a world all shiny and new. I’m convinced He built something in a usable condition, and that such condition includes something that was well developed and ready to receive human life, with a distinct end point programmed into it. Whether or not the rest of the universe was already existing, or whether it’s just background, is unknowable. What we can deduce from Scripture is that our world had a distinct purpose and shelf life. So on the one hand, we can examine the wider universe, but the focal point is how the things we see affect our lives in our fallen state.

To no one’s surprise, the wider universe is apparently cyclical. The mechanics of everything runs through a pulsating rhythm with vastly long time ranges. Our God is truly wise and intelligent, and the beauty of this system is beyond our knowing. We do get to catch hints now and then of some parts of it. Thus, stars can be seen in various stages of their own individual cycles, and give us clues about how our star might act on a longer time frame.

I’ll over-simplify, introducing the basic concepts so you can make sense of the more in-depth material, if you are inclined to pursue it. It’s a tremendous amount of evidence to absorb, especially if you haven’t had much curiosity about it in the past. I’m not hard driven to learn such things, but I do have a broad curiosity, so I was already familiar with some of what I’ve learned recently. Over at the forum, Jay DiNitto mentioned this particular source and I’m rather intrigued. I took the time to review their basic thesis and some of the evidence they present.

According to their research, a part of our broader cyclical existence is that our sun can periodically spew out a micro-nova. It works like this: As our solar system rotates in its cycle through the galaxy, every 12k years or so, it passes through a dust cloud. Being a natural gravity well, the sun absorbs a lot of this stuff and it affects the equilibrium. At some point, the sun then ejects this excess mass in a kind of nova, but which isn’t so destructive that it changes the sun forever.

This means that super-heated particles are spewed across our solar system, and they crash into all the planets. It’s somewhat like a very massive CME (coronal mass ejection). The particles aren’t just hot, but magnetic. Thus, their effect upon impact includes a lot of things hard to explain. But part of that explanation is that it could easily overload things like our electricity grid, all electronic devices, etc. More than that, it would overload the protective magnetic field around the earth. It would cause the poles to shift, for example.

But it gets even more complicated. It appears the earth itself is sort of aware of all of this, and internally acts to prepare for it. There’s that idea that all of Creation is alive; the folks at this source don’t say it like that, but what they do say leaves the door open for it. The earth is not a neat little ball with nicely layered spheres inside. There are bulges and imbalances that drive long term changes on the surface, and those bulges make the earth vulnerable to sudden shifts along its own set of cycles.

Part of what makes all of this seem so wacky is that this stuff has been intentionally hidden. Not completely buried, but like everything else it seems in our world today, the information has been discredited by the mainstream system. This is part of the same system trying to cram evolution and materialism down our throats.

Anyway, these “suspicious observers,” as they call themselves, theorize that our near future is likely to go one of two ways. In one scenario, if our sun’s own cycle of surging and sleeping continues according to the established pattern, then we are going to pass through a very quiet period this next year or so for things like sunspots. That means it’s absorbing the dust quietly. Then, in a couple of decades, it will produce one of the micro-novas that it does every 12k years or so. So we have only to wait until 2030 to 2040 to see this happen. It would provoke that pole shift, making the earth’s polar ice caps migrate to new positions. It would also bring on a general ice age of sorts. A lot of modern infrastructure would be fried by the magnetic swamp of particles washing over the earth.

The other possibility they cite is that the sun could flare up quite a bit and get rid of any excess load of particles more slowly. It’s the same effects, but with a lower intensity over a longer time frame. It would still produce disasters. And the earth’s poles are still drifting, anyway, a process that has accelerated in recent years.

As you might expect, this group appears to cherry pick the data they use. That doesn’t make it false; you have filter out the crap that means nothing. A lot of crap is tied to the very big lie we call “global warming.” The GW nonsense is politics with a scientific mask. Still, there may be other explanations for what these “suspicious observers” are citing. I’m not saying this is the best answer to all the questions. Rather, I’m intrigued by something I honestly confess is partly over my head. It certainly fits with my moral understanding of things, and gives what seems a viable explanation for some of the prophetic parts of the Bible.

I still say this is not The End. Rather, it’s more like a pretty strong combination of the Flood with the Tower of Babel, a sort of divine reset. I would think the Lord is going to act strongly merely on the grounds of moral discernment. Scripture says during times of apocalypse, there are signs and wonders in the skies that go along with the moral revelation through natural processes on our shorter time scale. Celestial events as part of the cycle of sin and wrath on the way to the Final Apocalypse do fit right into all of this.

At any rate, if you are interested in checking out this stuff, start with this series of videos that run a couple of hours together. They have several affiliated sites across the Net; try Space Weather News. If you have money to throw around, they would naturally be glad to take it. They sell books and other merchandise. They’ll even offer you a chance to join their little community out in the boonies to prepare for the coming disasters. I don’t think that’s the right approach for Covenant people, but it’s not stupid altogether. It could be handy for a lot of other reasons.