I heard that the planets will align in 2012 and the sun could send out massive solar bursts that could fry half the earth's population.
So I was wondering if there are any links available supporting this theory?
Thanks in advance for all your help!
2007-11-21 07:04:59 · 9 answers · asked by Adelaide B 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
OK I don't believe in this either but the guy who told me this won't believe me when I try and explain that it's all a bunch of hype.
2007-11-21 08:30:40 · update #1
No, no, a thousand times no. The 2012 stuff is gibberish. It is a lot of mumbo jumbo spread by one of the most irresponsible and mendacious television organisations ever to blight the face of the media, perhaps only the media in the old USSR was a bigger bunch of liars among developed countries. The History Channel program was bilge.
Alignment of the planets, in the extremely rare case of them forming a perfect line all on the same side of the Sun would put a force measured in a few extra kilograms at the most on the visible surface of the Sun. Maybe, just maybe enough to create a slight bulge measured in centimetres at the absolute most. Far, far, far less than a tide on Earth.
The planets with the most effect on the Sun are Mercury, Venus and Earth. The rest are too far away. Mercury, Venus and Earth line up fairly frequently, every several hundred years. Nothing particularly happens.
The gravitational effect of one body on another depends on the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance between them. The distances are so great that this part of the calculation is by far the biggest term, and it means that a truck passing your house has more gravitational effect on you than the Sun.
Earth and Venus line up with the Sun pretty exactly during "transits of Venus". This happen according to a regular schedule. Transits have been intensively studied in the past as they have allowed astronomers to calculate the distance to the Sun, which was important to navigation. That is what James Cook was doing in Tahiti in 1769, and dozens of other observers around the world at the same time. The same line up happens with transits of Mercury. Again nothing particularly happens.
There is no support for this garbage at all. It is a set of lies.
2007-11-21 08:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There will be no exact alignment of the planets in 2012. Such a thing can't happen at all because not all the planets orbit the sun in the same plane.
In 2012 our sun will be aligned with the galactic equator, something that has happened over and over again throughout Earth's history without anything at all happening, least of all the sun sending out bursts of anything.
2007-11-21 15:34:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There will be no special alignment of planets in 2012. Therefore, no one 'knows' anything about it.
Theory: Some charlatans are making it up to make fun of people who don't understand.
The Mayan calendar (created thousands of years ago) has very long periods called Long Counts. There are five Long Counts corresponding to the five Ages of the cosmos (in the Mayan culture), and the first Long COunt is coming to an end on Dec. 21, 2012.
It's a bit like Y2k (Dec. 31, 1999) when our own calendar ran out of 'nineteen hundred' numbers and all the computers blew up (we all died, remember?).
You will find far too many links that 'support' the 2012 theory, each one of them totally unfounded.
2007-11-21 16:13:15 · answer #3 · answered by Raymond 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The planets are aligning all the time, but it has absolutely no effect on the Sun or the Earth. Nothing out of the ordinary is expected in 2012.
2007-11-21 15:11:54 · answer #4 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. This is not going to happen. The planets are no where near aligned on that date.
go to
www.faustweb.net/solaris/
and play with their solar system simulator. Unfortunately that site doesn't let you dial in a date, but you can hit an arrow and it goes fast forward.
While not exactly a life threatening catastrophe, You will have significantly higher gas prices.
2007-11-21 15:56:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no unusaul alignment of anything then. Some charlatans just began this nonsense with a Mayan calendar cycle ending. this is not a scientific theory or even a myth. It is just sheer poppycock.
2007-11-21 16:07:40 · answer #6 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he refuses to believe you, then tell him you've found a guru who will stop it happening if your friend gives you all his money.
Not knowing something is understandable. Deliberate, pigheaded avoidance of the truth is unforgivable.
2007-11-21 19:02:39 · answer #7 · answered by Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lmao. Another ' I heard... ' in the span of five minutes.
http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Au3NYxLO9LqAw_Qz1iIDKYUazKIX;_ylv=3?p=2012
2007-11-21 15:18:41 · answer #8 · answered by oscillator 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no interplanetary alginment at that time. the sun would be in the center of the milkyway galaxy tho.
2007-11-21 15:29:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋