Critically examining the "End of the World"
Galactic Center?
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Question:
Is it really true that our Solar Syatem will be travelling through the Galctic Center of the Milky Way on Dec. 21 , 2012? Is it true this alignment we will see on the winter solstice of 2012 is a once in 26,000 year event?
This is in reference to the Mayan End Date, and if all the hype is based on the fact that this event is actually about to take place in 5 1/2 years. So if anybody knows astronomy enough to say for sure if this is actually taking place , i’d very much appreciate it.
sorry for the typos, hurried too much!
I think the belief is that all the planets in our solar system and our Sun, form a straight line along the ecliptic with the center of the galaxy, is this true?
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about 1 year ago
we are way out on a spiral arm and will never be near the center ( the galaxy is traveling through the universe but the components of the galaxy ‘orbit’ the center like the planets orbit the sun so our distance from the center will always be fairly constant )
about 1 year ago
No we are not going through the center of the galaxy. We are 26,000 light years from the galactic center so someone totally screwed up with the numbers and how they used them . We’re way out close to the edge. I have a calendar from Barnes & Noble that runs out in February 2008. Is that the end of the world ? If the Mayan’s could predict the furure, why didn’t they know about the invasion and slaughter from Europe ?
about 1 year ago
I can say for sure that this is not going to happen. The sun is orbiting around the Galactic Centre, so it will never go through it.
What you are saying is like saying that the Earth will go through the sun in five years time. It just can’t happen.
about 1 year ago
No. The solar system is in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way.
about 1 year ago
The first question’s easy – no! We’re more than 25,000 light years from the centre of our galaxy, so we’d need to travel at 5000 times the speed of light to get there in time. That’s not going to happen!
I don’t know what alignment’s supposed to be happening in 2012, but so far as I can tell there’s nothing special.
about 1 year ago
Our Solar System is in a near-circular orbit around the Galactic Center. That orbit is likely to remain stable for the next trillion years or so.
If you wanted to reach the Galactic Center by 2012, you would have to travel at about 5000 times the speed of light.
Unusual alignments of the planets occur all the time—the configuration we are in at any particular time will never occur again exactly. If you ask, when will it recur “close enough so you don’t notice”, well, that depends on what you mean by “close enough”, and if you choose your definition correctly, I’m sure the answer could be 26,000 years.
The end of the Mayan calendar was a date so far in the future (for the Mayans) that they didn’t have to worry about it. And since Mayan civilization collapsed 600 years ago, they haven’t had to undergo the calendar reform that longer-lived civilizations have all had to do.
about 1 year ago
No, that is not true. Our solar system never gets anywhere near the galactic center. Never! And there is no special alignment of planets in 2012. It is all hype about the Mayan calendar, which is just an old, no longer used calendar.
about 1 year ago
It’s true. If you think of the galaxy as a flat disc (the ecliptic), the sun and the solar system orbit around the center of this disc, but periodically move up and down across the plane of the ecliptic. This occurs about every 11,500 years. If I’m not mistaken, some scientists beleive this is related to the shifts in the Earth’s magnetic poles.
about 1 year ago
I cant see our solar system getting anywheres close to the center of the Milky Way (our home galaxy). In any time soon. We are on the fringes of the spiraling mass of stars, nebula’s, galactic dust, and millions of solar systems that make up the Milky Way Galaxie. Our galaxy is something like 70 trillion miles wide. If we were to wind up in the middle of it in a mere five and a half years, we’d have to go 35 trillion miles in that time. Maybe at the speed of light we would make it in that time.
I do not doubt there will be some kind of alignment in that year that will not occur in the amount of time. With all the celestial bodies in the Cosmos, there is bound to be any kind of alignments happening on a daily basis, not ever to be seen again for unfathomable amounts of time.
about 1 year ago
It would take an act of God for our solar system to travel to the Galactic Center in such a short amount of time. The amount of forces involved would destroy the Earth, as well as the rest of the system before we’d even get there. Our solar system orbits the Outer Rim of the Milky Way. I believe I read several years ago that our solar system is currently orbiting in the same region galactically speaking as when the dinosaurs still walked the Earth, so its a pretty long orbit.
about 1 year ago
If you listen to Rush’s 2112 very thoroughly you will understand.
about 1 year ago
what? you need to do some reseaerch