Originally posted by Kryties
How did they know, so accurately, about our solar system so many thousands of years ago?
Well, maybe they werent so accurate. I actually was all aboard the idea not that the world was coming to an end, but that something MIGHT happen
unusual around 2012 because the sun was supposed to line up with the center of the galaxy at that time. (December 2012)
However, on another thread I learned some scientifically undisputed facts about that galactic alignment. Most importantly, that this once ever 26,000
year even had already occurred. On May 7, 1998. I didnt just take the guys word for it. I never do. I went digging, and sure enough. He was
right. It is over with.
2012wiki.com...
The precise alignment of the solstice point (the precise center-point of the body of the sun as viewed from earth) with the Galactic equator was
calculated to occur in 1998 (Jean Meeus, Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, 1997 - mentioned by Jenkins at alignment2012.com... ). This
date was further refined by Smelyakov to May 7 1998 (tech.groups.yahoo.com...). Therefore, if the
significance of 2012 is related to a precise intersecting of the Galactic Equator, whatever that significance would have meant would already have
occurred.
The solstice 2012 event will only be an apparent alignment, not an actual one.
en.wikipedia.org...
John Major Jenkins, and others [14] claim that an alignment will occur when the sun rises above the horizon on December 21 2012, at which point
the sun will rise in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy, thus causing an alignment between the earth, sun, and the galactic center.[15] This event is
said to cause numerous earth changes, however that is not possible considering that the event is only a visual phenomenon from the earths perspective,
which is caused by the precession of the equinoxes or the 26,000 year wobble of the earth, which only changes our perspective, not the actual position
of the earth in relation to the galaxy. In short, there is no gravitational force or radiation to be expected from this event because other than the
tilt of the earth, nothing will be any different than any other solstice.
Since the physical alignment has already occurred, and that would have been the one that would have brought physical consequences if there were to be
any, there really doesnt seem to be any reason to expect that the apparent alignment will do anything at all. There would be absolutely no physical
reason for it to.
Of course there remains the possibility that there is some other reason Dec 2012 was significant in the Mayan calendar, but since the whole event was
being sold on the alignment aspect I have yet to hear what that is.
I know this will not change many peoples minds. The thread where the guy presented this evidence did not change many, but, this is science, and when
it comes to astronomy, I trust science. Humans have been successfully calculating planetary movements for quite a long time, and we have only gotten
better at it over time.
