December 23, 2012? I thought I heard someone say that our planet would be in line with galactic center.True?

Question

If so ..how will this effect things after 12/23?

Answer 1

Our planet is always in line with the galactic center if you draw a line from the earth to the galactic center.

Now if you are talking about the galactic center and some other point in the galaxy or universe, then it will be in line with the two on 12/23/2012, but I do not know what the other point is. Any other details?

Answer 2

Sounds to me like another bit of pseudoscience to try and give credbility and substance to Mayan predictions of long ago!

(1) the distance from the Orion Arm where the Sun is situated to the galactic centre is 25 thousand light years, I am curious what kind of radiation or other catastrophe harmful to life on earth is going to suddenly leap across such a vast distance and with what intensity?

(2) Won't this zap effect take a little time to get here (given nothing travels faster than the speed of light) and assuming that that time delay is a minimum of 25 thousand years, won't we have moved on and be out of harm's way by then?

(3) Or are you suggesting that the Galactic Centre has somehow got homing devices built into its torpedoes?

(4) Why do you suppose that just because there happens to be an alignment, there will be a catastrophe? This is superstititous and paranoid and draws heavily on astrology myths abour planetary alignment having some special significance for humanity,

(5) The Sun is orbiting the galaxy at a speed of 217 km/second so it will rather rapidly move out of alignment again the next day,

(6) The Sun has completed some 20 orbits or so around the Galactic Centre to date, averaging 225-250 million years for each such journey. i.e. we have been here before. What is so special about this alignment that it will be uniquely life-threatening where the other 19 were not?

Sorry but the whole thing just not stand up to intelligent scrutiny and I suspect that the New Age thinkers who peddle these superatitions just don't know any basic astroomy which would tall them that ...

"It takes the solar system about 225-250 million years to complete one orbit (a galactic year), and so is thought to have completed about 20-25 orbits during its lifetime or 0.0008 orbit since the origin of humans. The orbital speed of the solar system is 217 km/s, i.e. 1 light-year in circa. 1400 years, and 1 AU in 8 days." (see link, below)

The best way to arm yourself against such ignorance and superstition is to read widely.

Answer 3

We are always in line with the galactic centre, just like two points are always in line with each other.
Nothing is going to happen on the 23rd December 2012 other than those events which happen every other day.

These superstitions are based on the Aztec/Mayan calendar, whose cycle was calculated to finish on that day. The Aztecs were not mythical beings. They were men just as we have today, looking up at the sky, and trying to make some sense out of life by the movement of the stars and planets.

They could not predict the end of their own civilization, yet people attribute some credulity to them for predicting the end of the world.

Answer 4

Clue: a large style of people on television communicate utter nonsense. The planets are unlikely to line up on 21 December 2012. and despite in the event that they did, the end result on earth could be so small as to bypass completely no longer noted different than possibly via scientists with exceptionally comfortable contraptions.