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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
Lunisolar precession is well explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession_(astronomy) My discussion here notes an exact harmonic correlation between the speed of precession and the aspects of the outer planets against the 2147 year cycle of the ages. This barycentric harmonic link has not to my knowledge been previously documented. |
But the problem is I don't think you've been able to convince anybody that this link is actually real. I don't think that a rougly 2147 gap between the Roman Empire and the US is very convincing. There are lots of loose ends. Empires rise and fall all the time. Plus, how do the Chinese dynasties fit into this pattern? What about what was happening in India? It is only from a somewhat Eurocentric perspecitive that it makes sense. Also, if there is a pattern like that, you should be able to trace it back. What happened 2147 years before Rome? And 2147 years before that? You would have to have more than two points to point out a real correspondence.
To be honest, I've thought about what might make a valid test of your hypothesis, and I can't really find anything that would be sufficiently objective. OK, I could. Suppose the human population of the earth could be shown to fluctuate between highs and lows every 2,147 years. Or suppose an asteroid struck the earth and wiped out 95% of humanity every 2,147 years. Then I would tend to accept it. But talking about the rise and fall of empires, it happens every 50 years anyway, so you are bound to get hits. What about the rise of Islam? And the Ottoman Empire? And Prussia? History seems to me to be much too complicated to be able to detect any trends. For example, maybe the Black Death represents a down cycle in Europe, but it was (I think) the time of the Ming Dynasty in China and hence, for a significant part of humanity, an up time.