2012 for reals?
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The Galactic Alignment is the alignment of the December solstice sun with the Galactic equator. This alignment occurs as a result of the precession of the equinoxes. Precession is caused by the earth wobbling very slowly on its axis and shifts the position of the equinoxes and solstices one degree every 71.5 years. Because the sun is one-half of a degree wide, it will take the December solstice sun 36 years to precess through the Galactic equator.
The Galactic Equator is a virtual line that describes 0 degrees longitude and 0 degrees latitude, and acts as a divisionary line between the northern and southern hemispheres of the Milky Way galaxy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal…
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 http://alignment2012.com/whatisG… ). This date was further refined by Smelyakov to May 7 1998 (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/gr... 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.
Due the width of Sun causing an inprecise alignment to still be a visual alignment, the Galactic Alignment "zone" is 1998 +/- 18 years = 1980 - 2016. This is, according to Jenkins, "era-2012."
This Galactic Alignment occurs only once every 25,800 years, and is possibly what the ancient Maya were pointing to with the 2012 end-date of their Long Count calendar.- <better thank me for thaking the time to write that out blueone.KwesiJ
- still very vague calculation.. not very scientific to mejanne76
- You mean copy and pasting that from some hippydoomslayer pseudo science site.TheBlueOne
- its a wiki and basically if you read it and understood it you'd know what the fuck its sayingKwesiJ
- not sure if you realize but you can tell what year it is from the stars...people knew this for millenia, we're very aware of passage of timeKwesiJ
- exptremely clever people we are and time and the stars have always been a big deal, has nothing to do with newage stuffKwesiJ