Armchair eschatology: The shifty business of True Polar Wander

True Polar Wander
True Polar Wander

Some say the world will end in fire; some say ice. Others prefer to trot out obscure scientific theories. Strange as it might seem, the pole shift hypothesis, in which the Earth’s crust and mantle (or outermost layers) move as one piece, did not spring from the fevered imaginations of the sandwich-board set, but from scientific circles, and it’s rooted solidly in physics.

Of course, that doesn’t mean Hollywood got it right …

Are the Earth’s poles shifting in 2012?

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