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Originally Posted by dirty_g
Hi all,
Just wondered. In some Mayan circles they seem to beleive that the Sun will align with Galactic centre. By the way I dont beleive it and the point of this thread is not to have an argument about that.
What I want to know is how could we know when the Sun is in alignment with the centre? It's impossible to know isnt it? We don't know exactly where we are in the Galaxy. I heard heard some poeple argue that it won't be in alignment to it and it would be on a different date. I just want to know how on Earth we would know? It's impossible isnt it? May I reitierate I want to know how we would know we are in alignment. I want nothing to do with 2012 end of world woo woo rubbish. Cheers  |
Well, we know in what direction
the center is, and we know what direction the sun is(of course), so knowing that we have an alignment would be as simple as observing that the sun is in front of the part of the sky where the center is located(or that the sun and the center is on opposite sides of the earth), and since we know the movements of the sun and the earth, I expect it would be possible to calculate when in 2012, if at all, such an alignment would happen, but sadly, I am not up to the maths...
I assume they mean that the earth is involved in the alignment, after all, any two objects will always be in line and so, you need a third object to make an alignment...