Who buys the 2012 Hype?

[Ringel05]

is the world going to end 12/21/2012? I don't believe, so but for some reason it still gives me goose bumps! 2012 is right around the corner so most of will see if its hype or truth!

One thing is foresure! I will either become a believer in god or a stronger non-believer on 12/21/2012!

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[kyzr]

It's based on a false premise. The Mayan's didn't predict the end of the world, it is just the end of their cycle. It then starts again from the beginning, so the end of the world thing is junk.

There is some science behind it!

Precession
In the solar system, the planets and the Sun share roughly the same plane of orbit, known as the plane of the ecliptic. From our perspective on Earth, the Zodiacal constellations move along or near the ecliptic, and over time, appear to recede counterclockwise by one degree every 72 years. This movement is attributed to a slight wobble in the Earth's axis as it spins. As a result, approximately every 2160 years, the constellation visible on the early morning of the spring equinox changes. In Western astrological traditions, this signals the end of one astrological age (currently the Age of Pisces) and the beginning of another (Age of Aquarius). Over the course of 26,000 years, the precession of the equinoxes makes one full circuit around the ecliptic.

Just as the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere is currently in the constellation of Pisces, so the winter solstice is currently in the constellation of Sagittarius, which happens to be the constellation intersected by the galactic equator. Every year for the last 1000 years or so, on the winter solstice, the Earth, Sun and the galactic equator come into alignment, and every year, precession pushes the Sun's position a little way further through the Milky Way's band.

Astrology is a science?

I have a different explanation, its similar, but I think its a different perspective.
The solar system rotates around the Milky way once every 250,000 years or so. As we travel around we move above and below the plane of the Milky Way. When we pass thru the plane we experience slightly more gravity. It should be no big deal, but.....
Here is a nice explanation
Doomsday, The Mayan Calendar and 2012
Part 2 - Doomsday, The Mayan Calendar and 2012

 

[American Horse]

I have a different explanation, its similar, but I think its a different perspective.
The solar system rotates around the Milky way once every 250,000 years or so. As we travel around we move above and below the plane of the Milky Way. When we pass thru the plane we experience slightly more gravity. It should be no big deal, but.....
Here is a nice explanation
Doomsday, The Mayan Calendar and 2012
Part 2 - Doomsday, The Mayan Calendar and 2012

Interesting Kyzr, but you’re off by a factor of exactly 1,000
Earth's galactic year, the solar system's time for a journey around the circumference of the galaxy is 250 million years. And, as you said, the solar system does bob up and down through the galactic plane, but about every 40-million years, meaning we are in the thick of things in that time scale.

It is reasonable to expect that there would be an increase in the density of dust, gas, even stars during that passage. That condition could, for instance, affect the transmission of solar radiation and it could affect the sun's normal cycles in some unknown way, most likely minor way. What effect could an increase in gas and dust falling into the Sun's cotona have for instance? That frequency has been found to have a resonance with ice ages, but that would likely be only a "triggering" condition, needing a confluence of other propitiating situations.

Galactic gravity or the alignment of distant stars, etc, would be beyond miniscule to physical objects within the solar system.

 

[JeremyNight]

Im open minded about conspiracys,unlike most people around here,I dont swallow the lies and propaganda of the government,but i dont buy into this one.

Good for you.

 

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