At What Speed Does Our Sun Bob Up And Down Relative To The Galactic Equator?

Question

And Can A Spacecraft Be Sent In The Direction Of Galactic Equator To Find Out If A Wormhole Exists At The Galactic Equator As Suggested By Proponents Of The Dec 21 , 2012 Scenarioo?

Answer 1

The solar system oscillates relative to the galactic plane about 2.7 times per orbit. We orbit the galactic center once every 225 to 250 million years, at an orbital velocity of 217 km/sec or 1 LY/1400yr.
So, one oscillatory cycle takes 83 to 93 million years, and covers 59.3 to 66.4 light years.

For the rest of your question:
The 12/21/2012 scenario is bunk, based primarily on the fact that the Mayan calendar "runs out" on that date.

And the Voyager I spacecraft has only this spring (possibly) entered the heliosheath, the boundary region between the solar system and interstellar space. It will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary next month.

So, no. No craft we could launch would have a prayer of reaching anything outside our immediate neighborhood (wormhole or otherwise) in only five years.

Answer 2

I have never heard of this "bobbing", and I strongly suspect that our solar system does not "bob" with respect to the galactic equator. To do so, two opposing forces would have to be acting upon it.

Presumably, our solar system is traveling through space in a straight line, only marginally (read: hardly at all) affected by the gravity of neighboring stars. If we are, indeed, traveling in a straight line, then only 1 of 3 things can be true:
1) we are steadily approaching the galactic equator
2) we are steadily increasing our distance from the galactic equator
3) we are traveling in a line that is precisely parallel with the galactic equator - a state so improbable that it can be discounted outright

It is safe to assume that the "galactic equator" moves more slowly than our solar system - in other words, that we change position more quickly than the entire galactic equator.

Therefore it is nearly certain, using nothing more than logic, that the sun does not "bob" with respect to the galactic equator.

Having said all that, after re-reading your question *again*, I suspect that what you meant was "the galactic core". Again, the galaxy is moving through space, but we are moving with it, and steadily outward from the core.

That the galactic core may contain a black hole is mere conjecture (though consistent with what we know of black holes).

That this theoretical black hole might be a wormhole is *extraordinarily* unlikely. To the best of my knowledge (admittedly dated), the only way for a black hole to theoretically form a wormhole is for it to be donut-shaped and rotating.

You may have noticed that there are very few massive donut-shaped objects in the universe. Large masses tend to form a ball shape because of their enormous gravity.

And I cannot for the life of me imagine what any of this could *possibly* have to do with 2012 or the Mayan calendar thingy.

Jim, B.S. in Physics, John Carroll University

Answer 3

The sun does not bob up and the galaxy has no equator, wormhole are in apples, they bob up and down in water.

Answer 4

I am totally amazed by the overwhelming abundance of hydrogen and stupidity in the universe.

Answer 5

yes