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[2] viXra:2610.0081 [pdf] submitted on 2026-10-21 01:24:54

The 1.11 Million Year Cycle: A Period Common to Earth's Magnetic Field Polarity and Outer Solar System Dynamics

Authors: Ray Tomes
Comments: 8 Pages. replaces two earlier papers placed on viXra, viXra:2610.0032 and viXra:2610.0033

Geomagnetic polarity reversals are widely held to occur at random, with no periodicity to their timing — a position well supported by over 50 years of statistical analysis. This paper shows that the same reversal record, examined not as a sequence of reversal timings but as the prevailing polarity condition through time, displays a clear periodicity near 1.11 million years. Using the standard 0—30 Ma geomagnetic polarity timescale sampled on a 1000-year grid, a continuous-frequency spectrum reveals twelve dominant cycles between 0.2 and 6 Ma, refined here to five significant figures. Two of the next-strongest peaks relate to the dominant 1.11019 Ma cycle by simple, clean ratios — 0.74013 Ma (2/3) and 3.33146 Ma (3×) — each within a tenth of a percent of an exact fit. Independently of this terrestrial result, two distinct mechanisms in the outer solar system yield periods of the same length: the Uranus—Neptune orbital energy exchange, established via numerical integration of the outer planets (the LONGSTOP project), gives 1.119 Myr — a drifting, near-resonant beat; and the Jupiter—Uranus perihelion anti-alignment, a stable secular frequency difference computable directly from measured planetary precession rates, gives 1.107 Myr — a fixed period. All three determinations, from three unrelated physical systems and methods, agree to within a fraction of a percent. The origin of these harmonic relationships, and of the agreement between the terrestrial and planetary figures, is left for future papers.
Category: Geophysics

[1] viXra:2610.0033 [pdf] submitted on 2026-10-09 00:09:57

The 1.11 Million Year Cycle in Earth's Magnetic Field Polarity

Authors: Ray Tomes
Comments: 4 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please submit article written with AI assistance to ai.viXra.org)

Geomagnetic polarity reversals are widely held to occur at random, with no periodicity to their timing — a position well supported by over 50 years of statistical analysis. This paper shows that the same reversal record, examined not as a sequence of reversal timings but as the prevailing polarity condition through time, displays a clear periodicity near 1.11 million years. Using the standard 0-30 Ma geomagnetic polarity timescale sampled on a 1000-year grid, a continuous-frequency spectrum reveals twelve dominant cycles between 0.2 and 6 Ma, refined here to five significant figures. Two of the next-strongest peaks relate to the dominant 1.1101 Ma cycle by simple, clean ratios — 0.74026 Ma (2/3) and 3.3335 Ma (3×) — each within a tenth of a percent of an exact fit. The 1.1101 Ma periodicity is confirmed visually by folding the full 30 Ma record at this period. The origin of these harmonic relationships, and their connection to solar system cycles of very similar period, is left for future papers.
Category: Geophysics