The surface layer of the earth can't just stop. Conservation of momentum precludes that, unless the energy is dissipated as heat, which would burn up or melt the entire surface. There would be no surviving that, no matter what.
Not just the surface layer; the whole works can't just stop. Conservation of momentum is different from conservation of energy. Forces are required to alter momentum.
But this is so juvenile. Anyone passing a high-school physics class should realize that a magnetic pole shift will have no expected change in Earth rotation. (Magnetic poles are not rotational poles.)
The surface layer of the earth can't just stop. Conservation of momentum precludes that, unless the energy is dissipated as heat, which would burn up or melt the entire surface. There would be no surviving that, no matter what.
Not just the surface layer; the whole works can't just stop. Conservation of momentum is different from conservation of energy. Forces are required to alter momentum.
But this is so juvenile. Anyone passing a high-school physics class should realize that a magnetic pole shift will have no expected change in Earth rotation. (Magnetic poles are not rotational poles.)
I know. But I think most of these adherents either never took science courses or never passed them. The laws of physics have never been repealed.
I think you are correct on both counts.