Critically examining the "End of the World"
Can the Galactic Alignment cause the center of the milky way to burst radiation?
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Question:
There are many rumors about what will come on Dec. 21, 2012. One of them is that the sun will rise appearing to be in the center of the Milky Way, causing the black hole to send off radiations, triggering huge solar flares. Will this happen? If so, will the solar flares be stronger than any other Solar Maximum that occurs every 11 years and destroy all life on Earth or will our atmosphere protect us?
I know the milky way is thousands of light-years away
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about 1 year ago
Sigh… NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. It’s all a bunch of BS.
http://www.bautforum.com/against-mainstream/10724-2012-debunking.html
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm
about 1 year ago
There is no such thing as a “galactic alignment” and even if there were, the answer would still be No.
about 1 year ago
Our sun is approximately 8 kpc away from the galactic center so I don’t see how it could appear to be the center of the Milky Way. Also, our solar system is IN the milky way…
about 1 year ago
That is the heart of the problem. The center of the Milky Way IS thousands of light years away. Whether the Sun lines up with Earth and the center of the Milky Way or not… or Jupiter aligns with Mars… or my finger (pick a finger, try to guess) aligns with my monitor as I read questions about 2012 (or get a Violation Notice)… DOESN’T MATTER. Sorry…. I hate to be the one to tell you, but the Earth is INSIGNIFICANT.
It is the HIGHEST form of egotism for a hairless monkey on a dust-mote sized planet circling an average dwarf star to proclaim that the Milky Way Black Hole even KNOWS we exist, let alone is readying scimitar-laser beams to shoot our way on 12-21-12.
It’s kinda on par to me claiming to be a close personal friend of Stephen King’s because I once sent him a fan letter.
Yeah, Stevie and I are buds… we hang.
about 1 year ago
Answering your questions, in the order you asked them.
1. No.
2. No.
3. N/A
about 1 year ago
Short answer No.
I thought that aliens were on the way, or that a black hole or Planet X was going to swing close by? Or was it the Earth’s poles were going to shift? I get really confused with all the different HOAX ways the Earth will end.
There is no galactic alignment, there is no planetary alignment, the sun and the Earth line up on the galactic center twice per year EVERY year, and the planets never actually align in a straight line as viewed from outside the solar system.. 2012 is a 100% hoax.
Even NASA has a web site debunking this hoax.
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers
about 1 year ago
Yes, the center of the Milky Way is many thousands of light years away.
Here is an analogous situation. Let’s say there is a nuclear reactor 5 miles away. Let’s say I put a post in a field, and you are walking around the post at a distance of about 5 feet.
Suppose I said to you “Careful! If you look at the post and it lines up with the nuclear reactor, you’ll cause the reactor to blow up!” Would you believe that the position you stand could have that effect on the distant reactor, just because your line of sight happens to line up with it?
What if I said “Careful! If you look at the post and it lines up with the nuclear reactor, it will make the post radioactive!” Would you believe that? Would it make sense to you that such an alignment could cause the reactor to affect the post, any more than it could cause the post to affect the reactor?
As we “walk around” the sun, it really makes no difference what happens to be in the background thousands of light years away. Not to the sun, and not to the distant object.
Now, even if you DID believe that looking at the galactic center from a certain angle would cause it to throw radiation at you, would you expect it to happen instantaneously? Remember, it’s thousands of light years away.
As for solar flares: We can’t predict individual solar flares. However, the next maximum of solar activity is predicted to be around May of 2013, and to be far below average in intensity.
about 1 year ago
It is sad that people like you believe in rumors rather then cold hard facts. I feel bad that you get pulled in by this garbage so easily, and call it truth.
And no, it won’t happen. And try not to forget…people can post ANYTHING *Gasp!* on the internet…I know that last part is a shocker isn’t it.
about 1 year ago
No way anything the Sun and Earth do can have any effect on the center of the galaxy.
“The” galactic alignment.
Ha.
The Sun is seen within 7 degrees of the galactic center every december and will again in 2012. But the galactic center is in the very distant background and not be effected at all.
about 1 year ago
The Earth is way too Insignificant for anything to happen. The sun doesn’t “pass” through the galactic plane, and the black hole doesn’t pulse radiation out. Otherwise there would be a history of this happening through extinctions!
Bottom line: No way, Jose!
about 1 year ago
Sorry, but you are so extremely wrong, that it hurts.
Lets start at the simple stuff:
The sun will not align with the center of the galaxy on that day. It will be 6° away from it on that day. Which is a lot as the sun is just 0.5° large. The sun passed this region around 1960. So the claimed cause of the claimed trouble DID already happen in the past.
The Milky way is not thousands of light-years away. We are right inside it.
The Black-Hole in the center of the galaxy is 26000 light-years away and does not notice at all that the sun exists. Why is pretty simple: The black hole weights a few million times more than the sun and still is only 1/700th of the mass of the whole milky way. The other larger stars, which are also closer to the center, will have a much higher impact on it – which is still close to nothing – the black hole weights also a few million times more than the heaviest possible star. The only thing which can affect a supermassive black hole is another super-massive black hole.
Radiation outbursts of black holes are caused by huge amounts of mass falling into the black hole. It is not the black hole that radiates, but rather the material that falls into it. Such an event is currently not possible for the Black Hole in the center – it is absorbed all mass in it’s closest region and will have to wait until the ballet of stars around it sacrifices another star.
If the sun could cause such a radiation outburst, it would take 52,000 years until the echo arrives. And then, such a radiation outburst would not cause solar flares. Solar flares are caused by magnetic fields inside the sun. What a gamma ray burst, like black holes produce, would cause on the sun, is not known at all yet. Simulations and calculations are not sure. Just some tiny change in the parameters is the difference between slightly more energy output of the sun over a long period of time (heating the inner layers of the sun) and reduced solar activity by disturbing the magnetic patterns on the sun. Plasma, like the sun is made of, is hard to predict in complex systems (if it wouldn’t be that hard, we would already have fusion plants).
But what we know: If there would be a gamma ray outburst which could affect the sun at all – it would affect us even more and likely cause a mass-extinction directly on Earth. And there is the problem with the 2012er. They talk so much nonsense, that they miss the real dangers and replace them by ridiculous stuff of mysterious objects and phenomena, which they don’t understand themselves, but they do know, that Star Trek like Technobabble (“The dilithium matrix needs to be reconfigured, captain.”) sounds cool in the internet.
In 2013, I can predict, we will still laugh about the 2012ers. And wait for the next apocalypse prediction to laugh about.
about 1 year ago
Well, think about it for a moment.
Yes, the center of the galaxy is thousands of light-years away. That means that anything the Sun would do to trigger an event at the center would take thousands of years to reach the black hole at the center. Then whatever radiation the black hole might send back would take thousands of years to return. So, when the radiation returns to where the Sun is now, it wouldn’t be there any more, right? It would have moved on in its orbit.
More to the point, there’s nothing the Sun can do that will affect the black hole at the center of the galaxy, and there’s very little the black hole can do that would affect the Sun. Lastly, I’m not exactly sure what a Galactic Alignment is. Nothing special happens when planets or stars line up, and they never do so perfectly. But…a galactic alignment? That doesn’t make any sense that I can see.
about 1 year ago
no because radiation is man made from nuclear fusions theirs no way it would get that far.
about 1 year ago
This might be true and so are the other prophecies. Just make sure you stay informed on the truth while many of us try to unravel the secret gifts our ancient ancestors left.
about 1 year ago
“The trouble with most folks ain’t so much ignorance, as knowin’ so many things that ain’t so.”
Josh Billings, American humorist.
You “know” a great many things that are not so. I suggest you try learning a few things that are.
about 1 year ago
Actually, we’re part of the Milky Way.
I don’t know whether the Galactic Alignment will cause radiation bursts, but I sure hope it can help me strike the lottery. lol
about 1 year ago
There is no Galactic Alignment.
The Solar Cycle is proceeding normally and nothing unusual is expected to happen.
Nothing particularly unusual will happen in 2012.
about 1 year ago
Ha ha, I like that … move along now, nothing to see here …
Anyways, they say we pass through the galactic plane, so people interperet this differently. If we actually do oscillate through the plane, just like a compass moves as you flip a magnet the magnetic poles of the sun flip as we pass through which in turn will cause the earth’s poles to interact. The magma flow underneath the earth will start to become turbulent and geological changes will start to occur, more earthquakes, heightened volcanic activity, a loss of the magnetosphere around the earth … Yeah that sounds pretty bad but it’ll probably never happen however we don’t have to wait long to find out. People like to feed on disaster stories, so you can believe it if you want, it could be true and it might not be. But it sure makes for a good story.
Ironically the last two years earthquakes around yellowstone supervolcano became very heightened at the winter solstice, this year being even more so than last year. It’s interesting because we’re moving closer to that 2012 date and lots of people like to draw conclusions about it, including me who isn’t really caught up in it all. Wether it’s actually connected or not is another story but it’s fun to draw connections and then it’s also funny how people after the fact draw conclusions from it. Hindsight is 20/20.
There’s really nothing you can do to prepare, so just relax and deal with it when you get there. The best thing I could suggest if you take this for real is to store a few seeds for food. It’s not expensive and it doesn’t take up too much space. And if nothing does happen, you can still use them, plant a garden and have fun doing some small plot farming or something.
In any case see you in 2013, .. or not. If you want to do some investigating yourself, just watch the news around december 20th 2010 into january/feb 2011 and see if yellowstone is recieving a higher than normal number of earthquakes. If so? Expect 2012 dec 21 will be the year it will erupt, and the cause to be what I have mentioned above. .. ta ta for now.