This is similar to the "Photon Belt" promoted by some independent researchers, although there actually isn't any scientific evidence at all for the "Photon Belt".

Relevant here is the possibility that we have only recently been caught in this torrent of invisible matter that zips through everything (our bodies included), and that we might just be on the edge of it. We might feel the full force of it in 2012 - a force strong enough to shift the poles, and enough inter-galactic radiation to mutate us.