ScienceCasts: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip

Something big is happening on the sun. The sun's global magnetic field is about to flip, a sign that Solar Max has arrived.

[BR]

0:24 HOLY SHIT!!! He's got 2 moustaches!!

[rgamr]

Aaaaannndddd 2 years later, we're still waiting! XD Some crazy stuff going on. Solar "max".. looks like we're heading toward another grand minimum.

[carlinj]

How come I haven't heard of this before? I mean this sounds pretty important. Also does this happen to all stars? and does it happen to planets such as our own? Imagine if every 10000 years on earth we had to change where the signs are on our compasses
haha

[fkn]

0:23, the best eyebrows in science today.

[llKNGpNll]

This is going to happen to the Earth too.

[deeliciousplum]

What a most incredible talk. Thank you NASA for sharing about this phenomena.

[moondreamer]

So how did earth respond to this reversal in the past? Weather? Quakes? what?

[jpariury]

Now, this here's a story all about how my sun got flipped/turned upside down, and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, and listen to physicist Phil Scherrer.

[KiaraWindrider]

i am curious what would be the scenario for a similar magnetic reversal on planet earth? although far less frequently these cycles seem to take place fairly regularly also

[rkpetry]

VERY CONFUSED—she sometimes says the field reverses at maximum, and sometimes that it occurs at the minimum (producing pairs of whole cycles in alternate polarity)...

[Daniel-ezgl]

I like how they can say anything and we would be like "oh, wow"

[KiaraWindrider]

thanks for your comments... and what kind of phenomena would you expect around a reversal of earth's magnetic polarity?

[onelowerlight]

Every time I watch one of these episodes, I learn something strange and fascinating that I never knew about our universe. Without a doubt, this is one of the best channels on YouTube.

[frasercain]

Not everybody is totally up to speed on this stuff. I speak too fast on my videos and people are always asking me to slow down. :-)

[vlefteris]

It surely reminds me of the movie "Knowing". In the end, cages father said: "It is not the end son" and cage said "I know". When this happens it surely won't be the end, I agree.

[Superfluous.]

I like how the person reading the text is like...
why do I have to read this shit? Fine... if I really have too..."

[danielalapada]

*Before December 2013*
Voyager: Yay I'm reaching close the Heliopause!
*After December 2013: Curse you sun... I'm so close...

[TTillahFK]

Screw the pole reversal - what we have just seen here are a set of the most amazing eyebrows in history on man!

[mightili]

Scientists predicted that this year sun activity will be increased greatly. Michio Kaku said that people better be ready by improving their power boxes and electricity controlling stations. Quite a few of those boxes will blow up this year. And a lot of people will lose electricity until things are repaired from that EM blast from sun.

[hopperhorse]

They said when the sheet is ripply though, it works better, which is is during the reversal?