{"id":286,"date":"2011-06-27T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T21:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2011-09-15T18:37:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T01:37:52","slug":"armchair-eschatology-the-shifty-business-of-true-polar-wander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Armchair eschatology: The shifty business of True Polar Wander"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/74\/True_polar_wander.jpg\/800px-True_polar_wander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"True Polar Wander\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/74\/True_polar_wander.jpg\/800px-True_polar_wander.jpg\" alt=\"True Polar Wander\" width=\"200\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">True Polar Wander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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 <strong>pole shift hypothesis<\/strong>, in which the Earth&#8217;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&#8217;s rooted solidly in physics.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that doesn\u2019t mean Hollywood got it right &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/earth\/geophysics\/2012-earths-poles-shifting.htm\" target=\"popup\">Are the Earth&#8217;s poles shifting in 2012?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armchair eschatology: The shifty business of True Polar Wander<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,128,50,74,64,3],"tags":[132,80,58],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film","category-geoscience","category-physics","category-religion","category-science","tag-eschatology","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-planets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}