I don't know if anything will happen 2012, but it is the end of age and the completion a of an Earth wobble approx 26,000 years, something we have only figured out in the past 100 years or so. Not to bad for calendar made 1000's of years ago.

Originally posted by stereologist
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I don't know if anything will happen 2012, but it is the end of age and the completion a of an Earth wobble approx 26,000 years, something we have only figured out in the past 100 years or so. Not to bad for calendar made 1000's of years ago.

The completion of a wobble? The wobble is not a cyclic as you might imagine. It is a continuously changing wobble in which the length of time to complete the wobble changes. There is no start time. There is no end time. There isn't even a regularity to the wobble. On top of that the Mayans did not understand the existence of the wobble. They realized over time that the star charts were off. They made new ones. They did not see it as due to any particular cause other than possibly human error.

great year
(NASA SP-7, 1965)
The period of one complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic, about 25,800 years. Also called platonic year. See precession of the equinoxes.

precession of the equinoxes
(NASA SP-7, 1965)
The conical motion of the earth's axis about the normal to the plane of the ecliptic, caused by the attractive force of the sun, moon, and other planets on the equatorial protuberance of the earth.
The effect of the sun and moon, called lunisolar prescession, is to produce a westward motion of the equinoxes along the ecliptic. The effect of other planets, called planetary precession, tends to produce a much smaller motion eastward along the ecliptic. The resultant motion, called general precession, is westward along the ecliptic at the rate of about 50.3 seconds of arc per year. The component of general precession along the celestial equator, called precession in right ascension, is about 46.1 seconds of arc per year; and the component along a celestial meridian, called precession in declination, is about 20.0 seconds of arc per year.

Not human error, they understood the Earth's wobble.
A wobble is a "great year" once the earth has passed all the Zodiac signs.

Watch the following Documentaries they show great evidence to back up what i have said, also a great book is .

Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by wycky

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Not human error, they understood the Earth's wobble.
A wobble is a "great year" once the earth has passed all the Zodiac signs.

Your error here is to think that the Mayans knew why their star charts were repeatedly wrong. They did not know. The Mayans had no idea why the charts were noticeably wrong every 100 years or so. They thought it was human error.

Watch the following Documentaries they show great evidence to back up what i have said, also a great book is .

I know what precession of the equinoxes is. I know it quite well. What you seem to miss is that the claims of frauds such as Hancock are hoaxes. The rate of precession changes. It is not possible to predict how long it takes for precession to complete a cycle as you claim.

Linking to nitwit claims does not support your claims. It simply shows you have fallen for hoaxes.

Everything spoken about in that book and the documentaries above is backed up by scientist, astronomers, engineers, architects etc. Point out a hoax for me....
If you decide to watch any, watch the last one it has the most info and lots of mathematics.
Also like I said in my first post it the Olmec not the Mayan Calendar. The Mayans knew how to read it, but not understand it (they Mayans were not smart).
The Olmec / Mayan Calendar also predicted solar and lunar eclipses and other astrological events 100's &1000's of years in to the future.