Magnetic Field

Davidson Wrong on Lights Out Scenario

_{This references a very obscure theory about space weather. If you don’t know who Ben Davidson is, watch the playlist.}

A question arose during a Q&A with Ben Davidson a few days ago that needs significantly more discussion. Ben apparently believes that the probability of a coordinated state effort to control the masses during a global “light’s out”‘ scenario from a CME is “conspiracy theory.” I tested his assumption by interviewing someone I knew would have a strongly informed opinion.

I can’t say who this person is. I know him through his son when we worked at Lockheed Martin together in an almost miniature city hidden behind the foothills outside Denver. However, this person had top-secret clearances while living 30 minutes from Groom Lake in the late 70s, worked on the minuteman missile, became the director of the MX missile and a manager over Lockheed Martin Astronautics. He loves his American flag, his grandchildren and shirt, exclaiming, “Why yes, I am a rocket scientist!”

Q: Would the state have some plan for a CME strike that takes out global power and communications?

[Paraphrasing, didn’t record]
A: Absolutely! They harden their processes. They will have developed a strategy dependent on their capabilities at various levels. They’d resort to carrier pigeons if needed. They will have found multiple ways to coordinate that people cannot anticipate.

Sure, it’s anecdotal, but…

I believe it. FEMA released a report in 2019 assessing vulnerabilities and outlining strategic responses for precisely such an event. Considering that FEMA is connected to the DIA via the ODNI, it’s implausible that covert plans don’t also exist for the DOD.

Some awareness of the actual scope of the state’s plans is essential. How do we prepare if we’re not accurately informed about the strategies and goals that states will employ? What will the social environment really be like?

Ben doesn’t know. And he believes the need for prep in that area is far fetched “conspiracy theory.”

I recognize that I have a huge knowledge gap here, so I want to resolve it. If you have actual intel on this matter and wish to compare more detailed notes, please PM me on Twitter @SithDubh.

Thanks for reading.

Stay sharp.

New Map and Conclusions

We got a higher resolution image of the Earth’s magnetic field. At this point, we are reasonably satisfied with the results. We’ve confirmed the magnetic field is continuing to weaken – about 0.11% over the last four years, or a rate of 1/36th of a percent per year. Ben Davidson of the Suspicious0bservers is correct when he says the field is dropping.

Our current (somewhat uncalibrated) estimate for the global mean field-strength is 34285.33 nT. The mean height of measurement was 4247 miles from the Earth’s center of gravity. (Hope that estimate isn’t too meaningful to anyone!) In general, we confirm that the field appears to be diminishing.

We will continue to process older data, update the latest images and animations. However, most of the development for this is complete. We will focus more on more philosophical topics and should have a page up on the fundamentals of time soon.

Odd Feature Identified

Previously, we presented a picture showing that the magnetometer readings experienced a sudden drop in early 2019. Some may have interpreted that as a “collapse of the magnetic field.” However, we have determined the actual cause.

Blue line is a linear regression and the red is a smoothing function.

We found a strong correlation between satellite altitude and the magnetometer reading, so we used some simple AI to remove the effect of the changes in altitude, which explained all of the “apparent drop.” The blue line shows the altitude of the satellite. The red line is a smoothed reading of the raw magnetometer field strength data (block dots are raw.) As the satellites get further from the earth, the magnitude drops. The black line represents a corrected magnitude after subtracting the influence of the spacecraft’s height, which yields a relatively stable magnetic field through the period.

Swarm Update 3/16/22

This morning, we produced this chart of the average strength of the Earth’s magnetic field. The blue line is linear regression and the red is a smoothing function. The view gets more fascinating with every addition of data. We are still not in a place to rigorously analyze and validate the apparent sudden drop, but my intuition is telling me it’s part of a pattern. Since the code updates aren’t yet complete, we’re using the opportunity to decode another batch of files.

Swarm Update: 3 Years Processed

Reprocessing for 2019 through a week ago is complete. It took a week because after three days – when it was nearly done – a Windows update came in and rebooted my machine. We lost all the data and had to start over.

It appears as the Earth’s electromagnetic field has been increasing of late, roughly for the last three years. However, early 2019 data looks like it may contain an error. We’ll have to do some forensic analysis, but potentially, the field may have been stepping down relatively quickly. You can even see why someone might argue that the trend has been down over the last three years (which is disingenuous in my view.)

Keep in mind that our interpretation of the data could change rapidly.

Below is an animation of the first three months of 2021. We’re no longer building the animation as we structure new data so that we can get the base data sooner. Later, we’ll be able to create animations in a parallel process.

Swarm Update – New Colors

We’re currently reprocessing the entire dataset, but this short clip shows that we’re handling nulls correctly now. We’re also going with a different color pallet. I’ve added more data, like the field vector, which I’m not yet utilizing. I have many more diagnostic processes. We’re now re-downloading files that got corrupted, and now we have a more complete file set and more.

There is also a new dataset on the way. It’s more radial on a spherical surface. However, it’s also more challenging to represent 2D graphically – but that will happen. This second study will give us perspective on the previous results.

I have a parameter that adjusts the size of the blue area, and there’s nothing like seeing what you are doing so I created the above graphic. The red dots are my aggregation nodes. For each red dot, there is a blue area. This blue area belongs to the red dot at x0, y0, z1. The aggregation process will average the magnetic field strength over the earth’s surface within the blue area for each red dot.

And in other news… I lost a bunch of code. Essentially I have to re-write the code that produces the above graphic and the data structure that averages the field strength at each red dot.

Swarm Update 2/21/22

This is the Earth’s magnetic field strength for March 2019 by day, taken from the Swarm satellite array. The image is the Earth’s surface broken into “equal-area” parts. Equal areas allow us to calculate a general average field strength despite the Swarm satellites spending vastly more time at the poles.

We determined the bad frames came from improper null handling, which we already fixed in the code.

I’m seeing a slight uptrend for the global mean strength for the Earth’s magnetic field during March 2019, but it’s not significant. 34090 to 34130 is only a 0.11% difference.

Now I’m off to process some more data…

Swarm Project Update 2/19/22

All the latest files have been downloaded. Now we have to decode the – almost decade’s worth of – data, which is estimated to take two weeks! I’m using a Mathematica script because the files are encoded in an obscure NASA file format. Then we need to dimensionalize the data.

After consulting with various engineers and scientists who understand satellite data, I believe we have the data model needed to get to the heart of the matter fairly quickly. The raw sensor data will have some data normalization problems, but we’re probably anticipating the bulk of them. Apparently, I have two weeks to write the modeling code 🙂

I wonder if there was a magnetic disturbance associated with COVID. And I wonder if when I dream about the data, I’ll hear Earth’s thoughts.

Image of one day’s worth of data from one satellite. Blue is about 60 nT and Red is about 25. We can see clearly that the strength of the field is strongest at the poles.

Swarm Magnetometer Project

I’ve decided to use my citizen scientist skills to look at the Swarm satellite magnetometer data and determine the rate the Earth’s magnetic field is dropping. Ben Davidson of Suspicious0bservers has made it a daily ritual to fearmonger about the pace the field is collapsing, but I can’t find any up-to-date information on this.

Currently, we’re still downloading and decoding the data. However, we’ll soon be seeing what’s really going on with that magnetic field of ours!