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OK first about pole reversal. I believe you are right JAK. There is pretty good evidence that the Earth reversed poles and very likely will again in the future. ( Maybe 12/21/12 when the Mayan calendar ends )

The sun appears to reverse it's poles ~ every 11 years. It also has more than one dipole but many.

Sreaking of more than one dipole there is the quadrupole, something I believe the proton may consist of, since there are 4 positive areas ( male) and 4 negative areas ( female ) in the quadrant.

Radiation from a lateral quadrupole source

If two opposite phase monopoles make up a dipole, then two opposite dipoles make up a quadrupole source. In a Lateral Quadrupole arrangement the two dipoles do not lie along the same line (four monopoles with alternating phase at the corners of a square). The directivity pattern for a lateral quadrupole looks like a clover-leaf pattern; sound is radiated well in front of each monopole source, but sound is canceled at points equidistant from adjacent opposite monopoles. The animated GIF at left shows the pressure field produced by a lateral quadrupole source. At the center of the pressure field you can see the quadrupole motion as the particles alternate motion in the horizontal and vertical directions. back and forth caused by the dipole motion. The regions where sound is cancelled shows up along the diagonals (where the grid motion is almost zero). Furthermore, there is a 180o phase difference between the horizontal and vertical wavefronts.



This I believe would be constantly changing poles as the colors change. ( Which they do with color force theory.)