Recently, my buddy Jim and I were exchanging emails regarding a series of articles that dealt with climate change and the like, particularly coastal waters creeping up and covering low-lying areas that might include Washington DC, among others. A particular article Jim found pointed out, as reported by the Huffington Post, that when an ice sheet melts, its gravitational pull on the ocean is reduced; hence water moves away from it. This means, for instance, that sea levels could fall near Antarctica, but simultaneously rise more than expected at various places in the northern hemisphere. Considering strange geomagnetic affects occurring around the globe as Earth changes continue to occur, what other ways might this be affecting us?

“I have heard quite a few people of all ages lately saying that time seems to have ‘sped up’,” Jim mentioned, musing on the fact that “normally you hear our younger set complaining that it’s too slow!” But then Jim asked me, “but is it possible that the speed of earth’s rotation has changed?” Jim points out that this might be an imperceptible change, but if indeed this were to be occurring, he asks “what effect would it have on us in either case, and what change in speed would be enough to affect us? I studied this concept in college, but that was 37 years ago and I don’t remember the outcome of the study. To add even more, what if the magnetosphere changes mentioned in the article could also be affecting Earth’s liquid core? Might this also affect our perception of time?”

Jim brings some excellent questions to light; indeed, it seems that there is a scientific basis for environmental temperature changes causing minor shifts in magnetic activity, subtle enough to go virtually unnoticed, and yet powerful enough to affect bodies of water in hemispheres apart from one another. Could these things indeed cause similar changes in things like Earth’s rotation speed, or in other strange ways imperceptible to us?

“The times they are a changing,” Jim reminds me… perhaps quite literally!

Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age