This is not an Earth-stopping event however.
The authors conclude that the oscillation of the rotation of the inner core coincides with changes in the Earth's surface system, such as tiny fluctuations in the length of a day and magnetic field."As such, our finding may imply dynamic interactions between the deepest and shallowest layers of the solid Earth system," the authors write.
Still, there is some disagreement about what the data represent, and despite headlines claiming the Earth's inner core might change directions, some Earth scientists and science communicators"The inner core doesn't come to a full stop," Hrvoje Tkalcic, a geophysicist at the Australian National University,.
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