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Dear Readers,
Today I received an inquiry from a panicked reader who
forwarded to me information about "Planet Nibiru" of
Zecharia Sitchin fame. The questions were: "Is it true?
Have they sighted Nibiru? Is it coming? What shall we
do?"
I undertook an inquiry into the matter, carefully perusing
the referenced sites and articles, and discovered that, once
again, someone is pandering to the public's demand for
sensationalism.
Now, let me say right at the start here that I do, most
definitely, admire the work and "discoveries" of
Zecharia Sitchin - as far as they go. He has
been quoted to say:
There is
one more planet in our own solar system, not light years away,
that comes between Mars and Jupiter every 3,600 years. People
from that planet came to Earth almost half a million years ago
and did many of the things about which we read in the Bible,
in the book of Genesis. I prophecize the return of this planet
called Nibiru at this time. The planet is inhabited by
intelligent human beings like us who will come and go between
their planet and our planet. They created homo sapiens. We
look like them. I call them the Annunaki.
There are a few problems with these ideas that I would like
to address. Reading The 12th Planet produces a
feeling not unlike that apparently felt by the old lady on the
television commercial who orders a hamburger from a fast food
joint only to be forced to ask the question: "Where's the
beef?" And the fast food analogy can be carried a bit
further in saying that the Earth Chronicles are
immediately gratifying, having been pumped full of fat and
chemicals, thrills and chills, but leave us mentally
malnourished = lots of theory, no substance and no validation.
The entire body of work is so full of glaring
inconsistencies that it is sometimes difficult to decide where
to start in sorting it all out. Sitchin claims to have
documentary evidence that a tenth planet exists as part of our
solar system and that a race of superior beings, originating
on this planet, once inhabited our world, genetically
engineering mankind for purposes of slavery. However, a few
words ought to be said about the kind of evidence that Sitchin
and many of his followers like to use: pictographic.
Mythological concepts which involve the heavens, deification
of the Sun, Moon, or Venus cannot be called astronomy if one
is not also willing to count as hydrodynamics the existence of
a belief in a storm deity or the personification of a river.
Also the denomiation of conspicuous stars or constellations
does not constitute an astronomical science.
Yet that has not stopped Dr. Sitchin from astronomical
interpretations of great specificity based upon little more
than epigraphic evidence. Sitchin and those who follow his
lead see great astronomical truths in every objet d'art of
ancient times, never supposing for an instant that there could
be far more prosaic explanations for many of these things. For
example, the famous cylinder seal that set Sitchin on fire: a
stylized star surrounded by 11 bodies on a cylinder seal.
"The
miniature art of the seal cutter is of peculiar social as well
as aesthetic interest. The idea of making personal identity
marks by impressing intaglios on clay sealings began, as we
have seen, in Protoliterate times and was later extended to
tablets. Seals were thus from the first associated with
commerce and quite soon, if not from the first, with private
ownership. This association with trade is proclaimed not only
by their use in Mesopotamia itself but by the appearance of
specimens in Egypt, the Indus and then, in the second
millennium, in Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean. Possibly
Mesopotamian merchants sometimes entrusted them to their
agents in these distant lands. A personal seal remained an
essential possession down to the later days of Babylon:
Herodotus said of the Babylonians of his day, 'everyone owns a
seal'." (Hawkes)
Basing a cosmological theory on a cylinder seal is kind of
like describing planet earth by Prudential's Rock of Gibralter
logo. Imagine some future archaeologist defining our beliefs
by examining the RCA dog and gramophone or the flying windows
of Bill Gates.
It is certainly true, in our opinion, that the evidence for
extraterrestrial visitation and even intervention is all but
overwhelming but that is no reason to trade off one god
concept which must be accepted on faith for another. From time
immemorial men have recorded sightings of mysterious objects
in the skies and they have been impressed enough by them to
hand them down through traditions, artifacts and written
documentation. Many legends are based on fact; but it is hard
enough and often impossible to decide whether the facts are
based on what seems most reasonable or whether they are lying
buried in time, under a mass of buildings, mythological
elements or psychological hyperbole.
In his prologue to The Twelfth Planet,
Sitchin plainly states his bias:
"In
the ensuing years, as I have learned the languages and history
and archaeology of the ancient Near East, the Nefilim became
an obsession."
An obsession it surely is. An obsession is defined
clinically as:
"...an
uncontrollable desire to dwell on an idea or an emotion, or to
perform a specific act. It is not uncommon among normal
persons, but if not banished may become all compelling,
developing into a compulsion neurosis." And, a compulsion
neurosis is "an obsession or psycho-neurosis urging one
to perform an absurd act or to say something silly."
In the case of the Earth Chronicles, this is
too sadly true.
On the first page of The Twelfth Planet
Sitchin sets up his obsession by saying:
"Archaeological
finds and the deciphering of Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian,
Hittite, Canaanite and other ancient texts and epic tales
increasingly confirmed the accuracy of the biblical references
to the kingdoms, cities, rulers, places, temples, trade
routes, artifacts, tools and customs of antiquity. Is it not
now time, therefore, to accept the word of these same ancient
records regarding the Nefilim as visitors to Earth from the
heavens?"
Well, I have no objection to accepting the Nefilim as
visitors to Earth from the heavens. But there is some question
as to how far one can go in accepting the Bible or other
ancient documents in a literal or absolute sense when
developing complex, comprehensive theories. Aside from this is
the fact that many other sources have given quite different
explanations for the issues Sitchin addresses. And, often
these other explanations fit the facts as we know them far
better. Not only that, but it is NOT true that the Bible has
been "confirmed" as an accurate historical source.
Quite the contrary, in fact. [See: Who
Wrote the Bible?]
Nevertheless, there is much circumstantial evidence to
support the idea of an alien race visiting earth; of ancient,
advanced civilizations and perhaps even genetic engineering of
Homo Sapiens. In fact, at the end of the day when all the
material is analyzed, such ideas are the only ones that seem
to stand up to scrutiny. Professor John A. Mason of
Pennsylvania University cites the oldest Peruvian traditions
and refers to the "habitable qualities of the stars"
as mentioned by the texts centered on the "descent of
gods from the constellation of the Pleiades". The legend
is that the first Peruvians were born from a bronze, gold and
silver egg which fell from the sky.
Some scholars think that the Peruvian city of Tiahuanaco
was built around 16,000 years ago on the ruins of something
built by the "fair-haired giants" 200-250,000 years
ago, as mentioned in native legend.
"Once
men could fly" we encounter again and again in the
legends.
"Everything
was sufficiently light and big stones were lifted..." (Mysteries
of Ancient South America, Harold T. Wilins)
The Haida Indians of the queen Charlotte Islands retain the
tradition of "Great sages descended from the stars on
discs of fire", and the Navajos tell of "creatures
who came from the sky and stayed a long time on Earth but
finally returned to their world". Most of the legends
around the globe make frequent allusions to the descent of a
divinity from the Stars, not from a tenth planet within
our solar system.
The evidence suggesting strongly that celestial visitors
came to earth and probably played a large role in our early
development -- even including genetic engineering is
extensive. But, that they came from a 12th planet in our own
solar system which ferries them along for a short shuttle
every 3,600 years is preposterous. This concept is
excruciatingly outdated based on reports of modern day UFO
activity and what we know about the alleged capabilities of
same and their "alien" occupants.
Sitchin writes on page 89 of his second volume, The
Stairway to Heaven:
When Marduk
invaded our solar system, it brought with it the seed of life.
In the collision with Tiamat, some of the seed of life was
transferred to its surviving part - Planet Earth. As life
evolved on Earth, it emulated evolution on Marduk. And so it
was that when on Earth the human species just began to stir,
on Marduk intelligent beings had already achieved high levels
of civilization and technology."
If Marduk was close enough to a large body for it, or one
of its satellites, to collide with said body, and if Marduk
itself was as enormous as claimed by Sitchin, then the said
proximity would have caused a slowing to near stasis of both
bodies and consequent disruption of the entire surfaces of
both bodies, reducing both to rubble and equality in
terms of evolutionary life forms. In other words, a couple of
rocks inhabited by slime. And then, if Marduk were to continue
on its way, supposedly evolving life as it went, one of the
fundamentals of Sitchin's very own theory, the 3,600 earth
year orbit equalling one of our years here on Earth, negates
the idea of a civilization more advanced than our own.
Why? Well, it is actually rather simple. If one of Marduk/Nibiru's
years is equal to 3,600 of earth's, and the inhabitants age
far more slowly than we do, then they would naturally
evolve equally slowly. In fact, rather than being more
advanced than we are, they would still be amoebas! The same
problems of evolutionary theory on earth hold true for Marduk/Nibiru.
Life begins with protein chains each made up of amino acids.
There are 20 possibilities for each "link" in the
chain. Even if a new combination were tried every millionth of
a second, it would take longer than the life time of the earth
to form a chain associated with life -- odds against it are a
1 followed by 95 zeros. Thus, we are left to conclude that,
obviously life on earth got a boost from somewhere, but it
could not have been from another planet in our solar system
that started out with the same potentials, but was slowed by
its incredibly long life cycles!
Another problem with this theory lies in certain
observations of quantum physics which seem to hold true for
larger electrically charged bodies: a body of the solar system
large enough (but not beyond a certain ratio) to break apart
the earth probably could not do so because when two
electrically charged particles approach each other they come
under the influence of their mutual electromagnetic fields and
the forces operating between them cause disturbance which is
transmitted in the form of photons or electrical discharges.
The exchange then causes the two particles to Fly Apart. No
impact can occur.
Sitchin argues that the mythical tales were actual stories
of the doings of the Nefilim. And, while he is insisting we
must take them literally, we must trust him to tell us
which parts to take literally! Obviously the part of Enki
and the World Order where it says "He lifts the penis,
ejaculates, fills the Tigris with sparkling waters," is
subject to interpretation!
I would like to give Sitchin credit for many of the
interesting deductions he has made, but if we want to know the
truth, I think we have to look for the common threads in
numerous sources. Sitchin leaves too many holes unfilled, too
many contradictions to both material science and long
established mystical traditions, and too many questions
unanswered. I nearly laughed myself into hysterics when I read
his theory that the Pyramid was built as an artificial
mountain to show the ancient astronauts the way to go home. I
can see one of our "primitive" astronauts peering
through the window of the space shuttle and saying,
"better put on the brakes I see Disney World!"
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The fact is, the idea that
something may be whacking through our solar system at
periodic intervals is a concept of such importance
that it simply cannot be overstated.
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But, getting back to our problem of the putative Planet
Nibiru.
The relative importance of an idea and
the implications of the conclusions that can be drawn from
that idea, ought to determine the level of attention given to
the idea. The fact is, the idea that something may be
whacking through our solar system at periodic intervals is a
concept of such importance that it simply cannot be
overstated.
Zecharia Sitchin analyzed the myths of
the Sumerians, concluding that they referred to a massive
unseen planet, and further, that all of the stories point to a
cyclical return at intervals of 3600 years. I believe
that Dr. Sitchin is onto something with this matter.
But, perhaps not exactly what he thinks.
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...there is a strong
likelihood that some kind of large body exists in
solar space beyond Pluto and exerts strong
gravitational attraction on the outermost planets.
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The Russians theorized in the 60s that
there may be not one, but three planetary bodies existing in
our solar system beyond Pluto. Aberrations in the
orbital motion of Neptune and Uranus have convinced many of
our own scientists that there is a strong likelihood that some
kind of large body exists in solar space beyond Pluto and
exerts strong gravitational attraction on the outermost
planets. So we conclude along with Sitchin that, if a
definite cycle exists, one of the most logical explanations
for it is that it is caused by a planetary-like body making
regular, predictable appearances.
"If it does exist, and it does
reappear cyclically, why doesn't science know about it?"
The skeptical reader will ask.
This issue of the cycle of this
purported "return" is of the utmost importance to
our eschatological theme. If we take seriously any
of the prophecies of the end-times in any terms whatsoever, we
find ourselves facing the idea that the world is either due
shortly for great geologic and meteorological events, or it is
not. If we consider the remote possibility that this is
going to happen, and if we are interested in human destiny, it
behooves us to investigate whether or not there is a
correlation between cyclical geologic changes in the earth's
past and the future, and what that cycle might be.
What is more, there is also compelling hard scientific
evidence that our planet has relatively recently experienced
cataclysmic geological changes. It has only been in
recent years that some of the more convincing evidence of this
kind, such as ice core samples and tree ring analysis, has
been revealed.
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If we, for one second, think
that there is a one-percent possibility that such
events are cyclic, and that we may be approaching such
an event, we ought to be putting the whole force of
all our science and all the great minds of our
civilization into researching the matter.
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If we, for one second, think that
there is even a one-percent possibility that such events are
cyclic, and that we may be approaching such an event, we ought
to be putting the whole force of all our science and all the
great minds of our civilization into researching the matter.
But that does not seem to be the case. Are the leaders of our
nations so stupid that they cannot think that far ahead? Or
are they so greedy and power hungry that they don't care? Do
they intend to "get while the getting's good," and
then when the final curtain comes, they will think that they
were the stars of the show? This poses a peculiar problem. How
do we assess who really knows what?
Over and over again, as we have pushed
deeper and deeper into our research, we find that
investigating these matters is problematic for a lot of
reasons. On the surface, what we see is that academic
and professional geologists, glaciologists, geophysicists,
paleontologists, oceanographers, astronomers, astrophysicists,
physicists, mathematicians, archaeologists, and so on, do not
take kindly to intrusions into their private little worlds.
They have their gods of convention, whom they worship, and god
forbid that anyone should criticize the acceptable protocols
of the conventional interpretation. They are warm and
safe and their career is protected by their covenant with the
scientific Thought Police who are, in turn, high priests to
the Matrix Control System.
And this is where we discover the
problem. The Matrix Control System, via the offices of its
high priests of science and social control, ensures that
glaciologists do not cross over into astrophysics and that
geologists do not cross over into archaeology. In this
way, there is no such thing as Comparative Science, and this
is most especially true in the United States where the lines
between disciplines are most strongly demarcated, patrolled,
and enforced by the Scientific Thought Police.
These conditions bring our problem
into sharp focus. As we have attempted to get to the
very bottom of many of the claims of the experts in the
various fields, we have discovered that there is much data
that is completely suppressed by this system. There
is also a great deal of data that falls under the control of
government agencies, and access to it is severely limited.
I discovered that there is, indeed, an effort on the part of
various government agencies to investigate these cyclical
returns and cometary impact matters, but that the results are
generally unavailable to the public. They consist of technical
papers, stored on microfiche, buried in research and special
collections sections of university libraries. Some of it makes
its way into print, but the volumes are so costly that the
researcher in these fields must be well-financed to be able to
afford them. Those things that make it to print in technical
journals, are couched in such amazingly obtuse and opaque
terminology that one must be as sharp as a Damascus sword to
cut through the nonsense. And it is almost a given that only a
trained scientist who knows the "hidden jargon" will
be able to decipher the code.
In this sense, we are fortunate. Ark
has this training, and he is a world-class mathematician. When
he finds numbers and theories and results, he can wade through
the nonsense, reproduce the calculations, and make some
headway in discovering just exactly what it is that is being
hidden.
I must also tell the reader that, for
weeks on end as we have ordered and read technical papers,
books, files of data, reports and so forth, the enormity of
the problem of suppression of information has become
overwhelmingly evident. Every night, after a long day of
analysis, calculations, plugging numbers into formulas and
compiling results, we would prepare for bed, both of us
shaking our heads and muttering over and over again:
"lies, lies, lies; nothing but lies."
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Every night, after a long day
of analysis, calculations, plugging numbers into
formulas and compiling results, we would prepare for
bed, both of us shaking our heads and muttering over
and over again: "lies, lies, lies; nothing but
lies."
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And so it is. Not only are the
separate scientific disciplines most often unaware of
developments in other fields which may have important data
that would help their own studies, they are also conditioned -
programmed - to consider it scientific blasphemy to compare
their own conclusion with the data from other fields. And
somebody is controlling this system of suppression.
The terrestrial axis is currently
inclined at 23.5 degrees. The early Greek philosophers viewed
this tilt as an "irregular condition," and not
something that had been fixed since the beginning. Anaxagoras
wrote:
In the
beginning the stars moved in the sky as in a revolving dome,
so that the celestial pole which is always visible was
vertically overhead; but subsequently the pole took its
inclined position.
Hesiod discussed the cyclical
conception of time in his Works and Days, saying that the
human race had five ages: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, and
Iron. The Heroic age is seen by many scholars as an addition
to an earlier scheme meant to accommodate Greek history.
During the first of these ages, mankind lived under the rule
of Kronos, or Saturn, and were on friendly terms with the
gods, and were free from hard work, pain, and old age. Plato
wrote about a periodic reversal of the rotation of "the
world," his intent probably being the entire "cosmic
machine," rather than just the planet, being the cause of
the end of one age and the beginning of another. He tells us
that all the stories of the changes in the rising and setting
of the sun and planets originate from the same event in cosmic
history: the usurpation of the rule of Chronos by Zeus.
When God
was shepherd there were no political constitutions and no
taking of wives and begetting of children. For all men rose up
anew into life out of the earth, having no memory of the
former things. Instead they had fruits without stint from
trees and bushes; these needed no cultivation but sprang up of
themselves out of the ground without man's toil. For the most
part they disported themselves in the open needing neither
clothing nor couch, for the seasons were blended evenly so as
to work them no hurt, and the grass which sprang up out of the
earth in abundance made a soft bed for them.
But this age came to a close and the
gods of that age gave up their benevolent governance, turning
the rule of the world over to something "other."
Plato describes the close of the era in terms of Pole Shift:
The gods of
the provinces, who had ruled under the greatest god, knew at
once what was happening and relinquished the oversight of
their regions. A shudder passed through the world at the
reversing of its rotation, checked as it was between the old
control and the new impulse which had turned end into
beginning for it and beginning into end. This shock set up a
great quaking which caused - in this crisis of the world just
as in the former one - destruction of living creatures of all
kinds. Then, after the interval needed for its recovery, it
gained relief at last from its clamors and confusion, and
attaining quiet after great upheaval it returned to its
ordered course and continued in it, having control and
government of itself and of all within it.
Herodotus seems to be quoting from the
same source that Plato utilized when he reports:
Thus in the
period of eleven thousand three hundred and forty years they
said that there had arisen no god in human form; nor even
before that time or afterwards among the remaining kings who
arose in Egypt, did they report that anything of that kind had
come to pass. In this time they said that the sun had moved
four times from his accustomed place of rising, and where he
now sets he had thence twice had his rising, and in the place
from whence he now rises he had twice had his setting; and in
the meantime nothing in Egypt had been changed from its usual
state, neither that which comes from the earth nor that which
comes to them from the river nor that which concerns diseases
or deaths.
Both Herodotus and Plato are explicit
in saying that the phenomenon is dual natured, that
something happens "out there" in the Solar system
and the results on the earth are cataclysmic. Herodotus says
that it happened four times in an 11,500 year period, and
Plato says that it is an ever-recurring phenomenon. Modern
interpreters of these passages generally divide into two
groups: the catastrophists and the uniformitarians. The
catastrophists suggest that the description is that of a
literal 180 degree flip of the earth. The Uniformitarians like
to talk in terms of "world ages" according to the
"Precession of the Zodiac."
This precession business is strange.
Theories of the significance of the precession of the equinox
began to emerge in the early sixteenth century when
astronomers compared their measurements of the tilt of the
axis to the measurements of Ptolemy. Ptolemy's figure was
23'51", and Dominicus Maria Novara, one of Copernicus'
teachers, estimated it to be 23'29". His conclusion was
that the tilt had changed since Ptolemy measured it. Chevalier
de Louville, observing from Marseille, measured it at
23'30", and this observation was confirmed by other
astronomers. The reason De Louville chose Marseille for his
measurement was because he wanted to compare his observations
to those that had been calculated in the same location by
Pytheas in the late fourth century BC. Pytheas figure was
23'50". (Theon of Smyrna had given the figure of 24
degrees around 127 AD, and the Brahmins of India had given a
figure of 25 degrees.)
The obvious thing about these
measurements was that they seemed to indicate that the polar
axis was gradually straightening up to be in alignment with
the vertical celestial axis. It was not inscribing a circle,
but a gradually diminishing spiral. The rate at which it was
doing this was calculated to be one degree every six thousand
years. Some theorists extrapolated these calculations back in
time, suggesting that approximately 400 thousand years ago,
the earth would have been lying on its side in the plane of
the ecliptic. This means that, for half the year, one pole or
the other would be in perpetual daylight, fried by the sun,
while the other would be in perpetual night. In between these
extremes, for another half of the year, (divided into two
periods), there would be equal day and night all over the
earth. It's not very likely that such a condition would have
been a "golden age."
The priests of ancient Babylonia
studied the heavens, mapped their constellations, identified
the path of the Sun and estimated the periods of the Moon and
Sun as they moved across the sky. Twice a year, at equinox,
day and night are equal and the Sun rises exactly in the east
and sets exactly in the west. Around the year 130 BC,
Hipparchus of Nicea compared ancient observations to his own
and concluded that in the preceding 169 years those
intersections had moved by 2 degrees. Hipparchus calculated
the length of the year to within 6.5 minutes and discovered
the precession of the equinoxes. Hipparchus's value of
46" for the annual precession is good compared with the
modern value of 50.26" and much better than the figure of
36" that Ptolemy was to obtain nearly 300 years later.
That it moves one degree backward through the signs every 72
years - was carefully noted by the ancients.
In his Principia Mathematica,
Isaac Newton demonstrated that the precession of the equinoxes
is the result of the earth's oblate spheroidal shape which
causes it to spin in something less than a perfectly aligned
motion. In short, it inscribes a very gradual circle in
relation to the celestial axis and, according to Newton, the
period in which this entire circle is completed is 26 thousand
years. This means that not only does the sun rise in a
slightly different location, but the terrestrial axis points
to a different area in the heavens as time goes by.
As it happens, the general area of the
heavens pointed to by the terrestrial pole, does not have an
abundance of visible stars to consistently have a pole star.
So it is only occasionally that it really has one, and even
then, the pole star is not quite "on the money."
Twelve thousand years ago, the time at
which many occultists point out that one of the stars in Draco,
Thuban, was the pole star, it was actually less of a pole star
than the current one if we take into account the decreasing
angle of the axis of the earth. That is assuming, of course,
that present observations can be extrapolated backward.
Most of the occult or psychic
speculations link the Pole Shift with Noah's Flood and the
destruction of Atlantis, the fabled ancient high civilization.
But, the uniformitarian view is also well represented in the
occult literature. Sampson Arnold Mackey, a shoemaker in
Norwich, England, formulated a grand theory of the ages of the
world that is pretty much based on De Louville's gradual
diminution of the angle of the terrestrial axis to the plane
of the ecliptic, but also incorporating ideas based on the
precession of the equinoxes. And here is where we find the
first fully expounded idea that the precession itself is
important as a clock that strikes the hours of world ages.
Mackey assumed the precessional cycle
to be 25 thousand years. He also accepted the gradual
diminution of the axial orientation at one degree every 6
thousand years. He assumed (from where, we don't know), that
each completion of the precessional cycle diminished the angle
of the earth axis by four degrees. Therefore, it will take
four more precessional cycles to get to the "Golden
Age," at which time the terrestrial axis is aligned with
the celestial axis. Four more precessional cycles equals 150
thousand years from now.
Helena Blavatsky adopted some of
Mackey's ideas during her short term of membership in a
"secret society" called the Hermetic Brotherhood of
Luxor, which taught Mackey's doctrine in an essay called
"The Hermetic Key" composed by Thomas H. Burgoyne,
secretary of that order. However, the H B of L made some
"adjustments" to Mackey's ideas so they would better
fit some other scheme of their own. They altered the degrees
of change per cycle from 4 to 3'36" so that a complete
cycle takes one hundred turns. They also changed the
precessional period from 25 thousand years, to 25,920 years,
coming closer to Newton's original figure.
Mackey believed that he had discovered
in astrology, the key to universal mythology. His entire
scheme was based on certain mythological interpretations, and
the H B of L claimed Mackey as a member, but of course, only
after he was dead. This seems to be a common practice of many
secret societies that seek to align themselves with certain
ideas or people for one reason or another.
Nevertheless, the adoption of this
precession idea by the H B of L, later taken up by the
occultists Papus, Barlet, Guenon, Reuss, Kellner and Steiner,
ensured that it would become a foundational philosophy among
groups such as the Ordo Templi Orientalis, the Theosophical
Society, the Golden Dawn, and so on. Most of their ideas are
founded on this uniformitarian, cosmic clock of precession and
slow, spiraling movement of the earth's pole in a grand,
shifting circle that reverses the polar directions every two
million years or so.
As noted, the ideas about the
precession of the zodiac are based upon a small handful of
uncertain measurements, and a very short term period of
observation, relatively speaking, during which time it is
assumed that the conditions that prevail at present have
always prevailed. Everyone who writes or talks about the
Precession of the zodiac pretty much repeats the above
sequence: that De Louville made an observation and compared it
to Pytheas' observation and Ptolemy's observation, (must have
excluded Theon's observation from the 2nd century since it got
larger instead of smaller), then the assumption was made that
the pole was inscribing a certain slow, spiraling circle. This
was followed by Newton's calculations, based not only on the
shape of the earth, but also upon certain assumptions about
the core of the planet, and voila! We have the birth of the
"fact" of the fixed precession of the zodiac! What
is more, we have hundreds, if not thousands, of theories and
explanations and ideas based on this "fact."
As it happens, getting hard data on
the matter of precession is extremely difficult. Either no one
has ever questioned this idea, and therefore, they have seen
no need to make ongoing observations, or the observations do
not support the idea and are being withheld. One would think
that, with all the precision observations science is able to
make in this day and time, there ought to be just scads of
data on this matter.
As it happens, this seems to be
restricted information. The government scientists who are
doing the observing, do not publish this information for
general consumption. And here we want to stop and ask
"why?"
There is another interesting motion of
the earth's axis called the Chandler Wobble. The Chandler
wobble, discovered by astronomer S. C. Chandler in 1891, is a
variation in the earth's axis of rotation amounting to 0.7
seconds of arc over a period of 435 days, or about 14 months.
This means that the earth's poles wander a bit as the planet
spins, describing an irregular circle ranging from 10 to 50
feet in diameter. There's also nutation, an aggregation of
sub-wobbles, the most significant of which has a period of
18.6 years and results from variations in the distance of the
moon.
Scientists have been particularly
intrigued by the Chandler wobble, since its cause has remained
a mystery even though it has been under observation for over a
century. Its period is only around 433 days, or just 1.2
years, meaning that it takes that amount of time to complete
one wobble. The amplitude of the wobble amounts to about 20
feet at the North Pole. It has been calculated that the
Chandler wobble would be damped down, or reduced to zero, in
just 68 years, unless some force were constantly acting to
reinvigorate it. But what is that force, or excitation
mechanism? Over the years, various hypotheses have been put
forward, such as atmospheric phenomena, continental water
storage (changes in snow cover, river runoff, lake levels, or
reservoir capacities), interaction at the boundary of Earth's
core and its surrounding mantle, and earthquakes.
Writing in the August 1 issue of
Geophysical Research Letters, Richard S. Gross of NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory reports that the principal cause of the
Chandler wobble is fluctuating pressure on the bottom of the
ocean, caused by temperature and salinity changes and
wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans. He
determined this by applying numerical models of the oceans,
which have only recently become available through the work of
other researchers, to data on the Chandler wobble obtained
during the years 1985-1995. Gross calculated that two-thirds
of the Chandler wobble is caused by ocean-bottom pressure
changes and the remaining one-third by fluctuations in
atmospheric pressure. He says that the effect of atmospheric
winds and ocean currents on the wobble was minor.
Researcher Michael Mandeville has
charted and analyzed the Chandler Wobble and suggests that it
is progressively shifting the location of the poles at an
accelerating rate. His conclusion is that something is
"driving" this change - possibly some interaction
between the earth and the Sun and/or Moon. Whatever is driving
it, it seems that the result is a heating up of the interior
of the earth with consequent El Nino, and accelerating
earthquake activity.
The fact that the Earth's magnetic
poles have changed many times in "history" is now a
well accepted scientific fact. But this actually says nothing
at all about the planet itself "flipping." It just
signifies a reversal of the magnetic field. As we now know,
the Sun reverses its magnetic field regularly and cyclically
with no apparent cataclysmic effects. So, a simple reversal of
the magnetic field cannot be used in support of a physical and
literal "Pole Shift."
The Pole Shift idea was described as
the "ultimate disaster" by John White in his book
appropriately entitled Pole Shift. White listed
numerous psychic prophecies that are clearly describing a Pole
Shift and attempted to relate them to scientific ideas. One
source claims that the Hawaiian Islands will rise and become
peaks of a great mountain chain on a new continent that will
rise in the Pacific. Another source predicts that the Hawaiian
Islands will sink beneath the sea. Such contradictions among
psychics are often handily explained with the "branching
universe" theory with a twist: both are true, they just
refer to different periods of future history.
As it turned out, most of the psychic
predictions analyzed by John White concerned the period right
around the year 2,000. Well, it has come and gone, the pole
didn't flip, and we are still here.
Naturally, many of the psychics and
channels of the space brothers say that we ought to thank
their "guides" or "guardians" for that
fact since they all pulled together to keep us from falling
into the pit. Nice try, but, as the Cassiopaeans have said:
"Tales are easy to sew/sow, when the past is yours only
to know." And how true that is.
In the end, the chief problem of all
the theories is that of the "trigger mechanism."
What is driving the machine? What is changing in our solar
system that we are not being told about? Why are the rumor
mongers and the theorists of such things as "Planet
Nibiru" or "galactic alignment" or "precessional
ages" allowed to promulgate their nonsense, while the
real data is being so carefully hidden?
In order to form any ideas about a
"trigger," it is important to try to sort out the
data that we can get and decide if a Pole Shift is a gradual,
uniformitarian event, or if it is sudden and cataclysmic.
There are endless descriptions of possible scenarios and none
of them were ringing any bells until I discovered the ideas of
Immanuel Velikovsky. Indeed, John White devotes about 20 or so
pages to Velikovsky's ideas, and in general, he merely used
them to support the idea of past Pole Shifts, pointing out
that Velikovsky made no predictions about future events of
this type. We might also note that Velikovsky must have hit a
real nerve to have been so viciously vilified. The Scientific
Thought Police went into overdrive to suppress him!
Velikovsky was condemned because he
denied that the orbits in the solar system were stable.
The ideas
of dynamical chaos was first glimpsed by Poincaré when he
entered a contest sponsored by the king of Sweden. One of the
questions in this contest was to show rigorously that the
solar system as modeled by Newton's equations is dynamically
stable. The question was nothing more than a generalization of
the famous three body problem, which was considered one of the
most difficult problems in mathematical physics. In essence,
the three body problem consists of nine simultaneous
differential equations. The difficulty was in showing that a
solution in terms of invariants converges.
While
Poincaré did not succeed in giving a complete solution, his
work was so impressive that he was awarded the prize anyway.
The distinguished Weierstrass, who was one of the judges,
said, "this work cannot indeed be considered as
furnishing the complete solution of the question proposed, but
that it is nevertheless of such importance that its
publication will inaugurate a new era in the history of
celestial mechanics." A lively account of this event is
given in Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System.
To show how visionary Poincaré was, it is perhaps best if he
described the Hallmark of Chaos - sensitive dependence on
initial conditions - in his own words:
"If we
knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the
universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the
situation of that same universe at a succeeding moment. but
even if it were the case that the natural laws had no longer
any secret for us, we could still only know the initial
situation approximately. If that enabled us to predict the
succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all
we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been
predicted, that it is governed by laws. But it is not always
so; it may happen that small differences in the initial
conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A
small error in the former will produce an enormous error in
the latter. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the
fortuitous phenomenon." - in a 1903 essay "Science
and Method"
When reading Velikovsky's blow-by-blow
interpretation of the events of the Exodus as recorded in the
Bible, the result of the close approach of a cometary Venus, I
realized that these events mirrored, almost word for word, the
events described in the book of Revelation. What is more
interesting is that the book of Revelation was written long
before the current craze of End Time Prophecies. It is sort of
the Mother of all End Time Prophecies. (And I will soon be
writing more about this specifically, so stay tuned!)
As it happens, there are many
individuals who have noted the evidence in ancient myths and
legends. We are not the first. Sitchin is not the
first. Theories of the earth encountering a comet did not
originate with Velikovsky either.
In 1882, Ignatius Donnelly, a
Minnesota congressman and scholar of all-things-Atlantean,
wrote a book entitled Ragnarok, wherein he
proposed that a giant comet had passed close to the earth in
past ages. The intense heat from the comet had set off huge
fires that raged across the face of the globe. He suggested
that the comet had dumped vast amounts of dust on the earth,
triggered earthquakes, leveled mountains, and initiated the
ice age. He even explained some of the miracles of the Bible
in terms of his comet, proposing that the standing-still of
the sun at the command of Joshua, was possibly a tale
commemorating this event. Donnelly's readers were thrilled by
his descriptions of the "glaring and burning
monster" in the sky, scorching the planet with unearthly
heat and shaking the land with "thunders beyond all
thunders."
Possibly inspired by Donnelly, Camille
Flammarion wrote The End of the World in 1893 in
which he recounted a fictional collision between the earth and
a comet fifty times its size. Flammarion's lurid prose ensured
that his book was an immediate sensation!
For thousands of years, comets have
been associated with disaster and misfortune. They are
harbingers of plagues, earthquakes, floods, natural disasters
and wars. In fact, the passing of a comet followed by war has
been so frequent as to earn for comets the soubriquet
"The Swords of Heaven." Tradition has assigned
responsibility to comets for death and destructions, disease
and decay, defeat and dissolution, the deaths of kings, and
the fall of empires. It could be said that no celestial
phenomenon is so widely and generally feared. Velikovsky
believed that this fear had a foundation in fact: it was a
sort of global subconscious memory of actual encounters
between the earth and other cosmic bodies that were so
devastating that the fearful reality of the event was
suppressed into the collective subconscious, and only a
"comet phobia" remained in evidence.
In 1857, an anonymous German
astrologer predicted that a comet would strike the earth on
June 13 of that year. The impending catastrophe became the
talk of all of Europe. The French astronomer, Jacques Babinet
tried to reassure people by stating that a collision between
the earth and a comet would do no harm. He compared the impact
to "a railway train coming into contact with a fly,"
His words, apparently, had little effect. The Paris
correspondent for the American journal, Harper's Weekly,
wrote:
Women have
miscarried; crops have been neglected; wills have been made;
comet-proof suits of clothing have been invented; a cometary
life insurance company (premiums payable in advance) has been
created… all because an almanac maker… thought proper to
insert, under the week commencing June 13, 'About this time,
expect a comet.'
Naturally, by the time of dawn on July
14, it was apparent that there wasn't going to be a comet. The
point is: an astrologer's "prophecy" had terrified
millions in the total absence of any evidence that there was a
comet anywhere near the planet. And this type of scenario has
occurred more than once, even down to our own day and time
when the Heaven's Gate cult members committed mass suicide in
response to rumors and prognostications regarding comet Hale
Bopp.
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...more recent scientific
evidence points to the date actually being 1628 BC.
There is also evidence for a disruption circa 5200 BC,
8,800 BC, 12,400 BC, 16,000 BC, 19,600 BC, and by
logical extension every 3,600 years previously for an
indefinite and unknown period of time.
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Immanuel Velikovsky demonstrated
rather convincingly that there was massive evidence of both a
literary and scientific nature that great catastrophic earth
changes had occurred during the second millennium BC due to
cometary showers and the close passage of Venus. He settled on
a date of 1450 BC, but more recent scientific evidence points
to the date actually being 1628 BC. There is also
evidence for a disruption circa 5200 BC, 8,800 BC, 12,400 BC,
16,000 BC, 19,600 BC, and by logical extension every 3,600
years previously for an indefinite and unknown period of time.
What is more, if the last "return" was in 1628 BC,
we are not just due, we are overdue for the next one.
The theories about Nibiru do not take
into account many of the literary reports from the ancients
regarding these great bombardments of comets. Velikovsky
tried to account for this by suggesting that a cometary Venus
was hauling around a tail of rocks. It seems that
Velikovsky and his supporters, and Sitchin and his supporters,
although recognizing serious worldwide catastrophes, have
failed to recognize the true nature of such events.
Velikovsky proposed that Venus out of orbit was a more or less
one-time event rather than a symptom of a long term cycle.
Sitchin came closer with his understanding of the cycle, but
he failed to consider all the variables in his solution.
What is more, once he settled on his idea as the one and only
solution, his efforts to make the mythical elements fit the
hypothesis became almost as absurd as the efforts of
mainstream science to avoid them!
The confirmed linchpin for the fall of
the late Bronze Age cultures, the Middle Eastern
Civilizations, and other recorded disasters that are found to
be "around that time," seems to be the period from
1644 BC to 1628 BC. The ice cores show the disturbances
starting in 1644 (registering in 1645) and the tree rings show
a big spike in 1628, though the entire period was disturbed.
Yoshiyuki Fujii and Okitsugu
Watanabe's "Microparticle Concentration And
Electrical Conductivity of A 700 m Ice Core from Mizuho
Station Antarctic" published in Annals of
Glaciology (1-, 1988) pp. 38-42, demonstrate that "large
scale environmental changed possibly occurred in the Southern
Hemisphere in the middle of the Holocene. (Within the last
10,000 years). Their depth profiles of microparticle
concentration, electrical conductivity and Oxygen 18 at circa
1600 BC indicates a spike in readings for all of these
elements. The evidence shows that this disturbance covered
this designated period, but with a "huge spike" at
c. 1600 BC
Similar evidence from the same source
article exists at 5200 BC. This period shows a less severe but
similar period. The oxygen 18 profile is close to normal, but
there is a visible volcanic dirt band. The dating of this
segment is less close because it is clear that nobody is
really looking for this cycle, but it appears to correspond to
the ash band from the Byrd station core.
It is conjectured that the cycle goes
unnoticed because of long term aftereffects, such as cooling
climate, as well as the fact that each cycle has greater or
lesser effects on the earth depending on its relative position
in the solar system at the time.
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What is clear is that whatever
comes at 3600 year intervals as shown by the ice
cores, is capable of setting off prolonged periods of
earth changes that are above the levels of ordinary
uniformitarian geologic and climatalogical changes.
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What is clear is that whatever comes
at 3600 year intervals as shown by the ice cores, is capable
of setting off prolonged periods of earth changes that are
above the levels of ordinary uniformitarian geologic and
climatalogical changes.
In an article in Nature, November
1980, Hammer, Clausen and Dansgaard date a disturbance from
the Camp Century core to 5470 BC +/- 120 years. This compares
to the proposed Hekla eruption which was radiocarbon dated to
5450 BC +/- 190 years. There is an appreciably high acidity
signal at these sections of the core which indicates a high
level of volcanic activity - again, right at the 3600 year
cycle mark.
Looking further: Michel R. Legrand and
Robert J. Delmas of Laboratoire de Glaciologie et
Geophysique de l'Environment published an article "Soluble
Impurities in Four Antarctic Ice Cores Over the Last 30,000
Years" in Annals of Glaciology (10, 1988, pp
116-120). They graphed the Oxygen 18 variations and the ionic
components Na = NH (sub4) and Ca (sup 2) and H and Cl and NO
(sub 3) and SO (sub 4). The time scale for each ionic
component level as well as the O (sup 18) levels stretches
back 30,000 years. The graph shows correlations to spikes at
5,200 BC, 8,800 BC, 12,400 BC, c. 16,000 BC, c. 19,600 BC. All
of these were times of great geologic stress.
When looking at the data and taking
into account the acknowledged dating inaccuracies (some of the
ranges of dates can go 100 years in either direction of the
spike, even though the spiking is regular and rhythmic) for
the more recent dates, and 3 to 600 years variance for the
older dates - especially when one considers that these are
broad analyses and nobody was really looking for anything
specific - they just said "wow! look at that wavy
line!" we find that the southern ice cores do not
register the same as the northern ones. The 1628 BC event that
really slammed the tree rings shows almost no registration in
the Antarctic cores in terms of volcanic activity. But the
northern cores show the activity beginning 1644 BC.
The evidence for the 5200 BC event is
strong in the Dome C core. The 8,800 BC event is well marked -
in fact, seems to be the strongest of them all... The Flood of
Noah, no doubt! The oxygen 18 isotope variation is noticeable,
the rise in sea-salt, elevated levels of C 1 and C1/Na. There
is an extreme spike in SO (sub 4) and H readings suggesting
widespread volcanic activity - great earth changes were
happening at that time, and they registered in the climate,
the oceans, and were preserved in ice.
The 12400 BC event is extremely
pronounced in the cores. The graphs show a quick, vast change
including the end of the Wisconsin Ice Age.(See: Evidence
of Nuclear Activity in Paleoindian Times) There is a great
Oxygen 18 isotope variation. Peaks of Na and very pronounced
spikes in Ca, SO (sub 4) and H.
To ascribe all of these things to a
"uniformitarian" idea that it just got cold and then
got warm and got cold and warm... with such an evident cycle
is sort of absurd. To ascribe it to a "galactic core
explosion" is equally absurd. To ascribe it to
"Galactic Alignment" is not worth consideration.
Otto Neugebauer has provided some very
interesting information about the so-called
Egyptian calendar. It seems that the whole Sothic cycle
that was supposed to be their way of reconciling the loss of
1/4 of a day every year, and showing that they measured time
in such vast cycles... is just simply not true. Neugebauer
analyzed their calendars and showed that they DID reconcile
the calendar once every five years by adding a day, and then
every thirty years they added two days to the correction at
the "Sed festival." He also shows that they observed
heliacal risings of lots of stars... not because any one of
them was so special, but because it was the way they kept
time!!! Observations of stars was simply because it was a star
clock - and not a millennial clock, but an "hour
measure." Every ten days, a new star was the
"measure star." And the whole zodiac thing was
divided into decans for this purpose - keeping time. What's
more, the zodiacal representations that the mumbo-jumbo
artists all talk about date to the Hellenized period of Egypt.
The older tombs and artifacts do not show any of this
nonsense!
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I think that, based on the
observations of the ancients that what we are looking
for is a recurring shower of comets that cycles
through the solar system regularly, on a 3,600 year
orbit.
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I think that, based on the
observations of the ancients that what we are looking for is a
recurring shower of comets that cycles through the solar
system regularly, on a 3,600 year orbit. What is more, it
seems that this body of comets, clustered together resembles a
Fiery serpent with a mouthful of devouring teeth in the
blackness of space. For this reason, it was given the name spdt,
spdw, and spd-ibhw (sharp toothed), in the
Pyramid Texts. It undoubtedly is a terrifying spectacle!
Of course, an important question is: what is the
"initiator" of these showers, and did they begin in
some interaction with an outside agent?"
According to scientific studies about the possibilities of
our Sun having a companion, periodic comets were
"bumped" into the solar system by a dark star, a
"little brother" or "little sister" of our
own Sun, which has a long, elliptical orbit measured, most
likely, in millions of years.
If it is a companion star, present day science pretty
clearly demonstrates that it must have a very long period,
otherwise, we would notice it quite plainly in orbital
perturbations of a certain type. In actual fact, the computer
model that best fits the various dynamics is that of a 27
million year orbit. And this, of course, leads us to a
considerable difficulty: the period of return of the Dark
Star, as opposed to the period of disasters. Obviously, a body
with a 27 million year orbit isn't likely to be remembered.
However, an ancient advanced science may have certainly
figured it out and it was remembered and passed down in
fantastic myths and legends.
J. G. Hills of Los Alamos National Laboratory writes:
Two groups
have recently suggested that the Sun may have a low-mass
stellar or black dwarf companion, nemesis, with an orbital
period of 26 million years )Davis, Hut, and Muller, 1984)
Whitmire and Jackson, 1984). They note that the perihelion
passage of Nemesis throught the inner comet cloud postulated
by Hills (1981) would cause an intense comet shower to enter
the inner planetary system. Some comets hit the Earth, causing
severe environmental stress. They propose that these induced
comet showers are responsible for the periodic extinctions
suggested by the data of Raup and Sepkoski (1984).[1]
The work by these experts suggests that the observations of
other binary systems demonstrate the model for the projected
separation they have given. Such paired stars are
"physically connected systems," and that these brown
dwarfs are "burning," though non-nuclear.
The minimum mass needed to perturb the inner Oort cloud to
produce such showers is, according to Hills, 0.01 percent of
the Mass of the Sun.
Hills writes:
In the
current paper, I use computer simulations to investigate the
potential damage caused by the passage of a Nemesis-like
object through the planetary system. I use these computer
results and the apparent lack of damage to the planetary
orbits to place limits on the number and masses of any other
black dwarfs (or large planets) within the Oort cloud. [...]
We conclude
from the lack of damage to the planetary orbits that it is
extremely unlikely that any object more massive than 0.02
percent of the Mass of the Sun dwells in an orbit with a
semimajor axis in the range 10,000 to 40,000 AU. [1]
What Hills is clearly saying is this: If it is out there,
it never enters the Inner Solar system.
Thus, we understand that it is not this Twin sun that makes
its "appearance" at each period of catastrophe.
Nevertheless, the analyses of the periodic comets suggests
that it does, at very long periods, again and again, crash
through the Oort cloud like a bowling ball through rows of
pins, sending a new collection of them spinning into a
periodical orbit.
Discovering the details requires research. And
research requires a hypothesis. And a hypothesis
requires admitting possibilities and making observations that
are not predicated on assumptions that have proven again and
again to be inadequate to explain the order of the universe.
At present, there are very few "experts" who are
even looking into the matter of our sun having a companion.
You can count them on the fingers of one hand. There are more
"experts" on Brown Dwarfs, but most of them seem to
be limited by the same conventions that restrict science in
general. For example:
A group of
summer students making a long-shot astronomical gamble with
the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Large Array (VLA)
have found the first radio emission ever detected from a brown
dwarf, an enigmatic object that is neither a star nor a
planet, but something in between. Their surprising discovery
is forcing experts to re-think their theories about how brown
dwarfs work.
"Many
astronomers are surprised at this discovery, because they
didn't expect such strong radio emission from this
object," said Shri Kulkarni, a Caltech professor who was
on the team that first discovered a brown dwarf in 1995, and
advisor to one of the students.
"What
is so cool is that this is research that probably nobody else
would have tried to do because of its low chance of success.
That made it ideal for summer students -- we had almost
nothing to lose," said Kate Becker, a student at Oberlin
College in Ohio.
"The
radio emission these students discovered coming from this
brown dwarf is 10,000 times stronger than anyone
expected," said Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National
Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM. "This
student project is going to open up a whole new area of
research for the VLA," Frail added.
Brown
dwarfs are too big to be planets but too small to be true
stars, as they have too little mass to trigger hydrogen fusion
reactions at their cores, the source of the energy output in
larger stars. With roughly 15 to 80 times the mass of Jupiter,
the largest planet in our Solar System, brown dwarfs had long
been thought to exist. Actually finding them, however, proved
difficult. After decades of searching, astronomers found the
first brown dwarf in 1995, and a few dozen now are known.
The strong
radio emission was unexpected because brown dwarfs, according
to conventional theories, are not supposed to have magnetic
fields strong enough to generate the radio emission. "The
presumed internal structure of a brown dwarf will not permit a
strong enough magnetic field," said Frail. "It looks
like we're going to have to re-examine how we believe brown
dwarfs work," he said. (National Radio Astronomy
Observatory, http://www.nrao.edu)
Imagine, students discovered something that, according to
the standard theories, had no right to exist. Note that the
emission is 10,000 times stronger than "expected."
Not 10 times, not 100 times, not even 1000 times! It is 10,000
times stronger!
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Judging by the lack of evident
damage to the planetary orbits (all orbits being
nearly circular, with some irregularities for Neptune
and Pluto), Hills concluded that that no black dwarf
more massive than 0.05 of the mass of the Sun has
entered the planetary system from interstellar space.
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Ark: In 1985 Los Alamos scientist J.G. Hills
published a paper [1] analyzing
possible consequences of a passage of a hypothetical stellar
companion, ‘Nemesis’. He estimated the probability
for its orbit to be perturbed by a passing star to be 15%.
Judging by the lack of evident damage to the planetary
orbits (all orbits being nearly circular, with some
irregularities for Neptune and Pluto), Hills concluded that
that no black dwarf more massive than 0.02 of the mass of the
Sun has entered the planetary system from interstellar space.
That does not preclude the possibility that Nemesis can
cyclically send cometary showers towards the internal solar
system. Moreover, his conclusions are based on the
assumption that there are no corrections to the standard laws
of gravitation, which assumption may change in the future,
when more data become available from the deep space probes,
and when we learn more about the role of electric and magnetic
interactions of cosmic bodies and of space plasma.
LBL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) physicist
Richard Muller devised the Nemesis theory [2]
to account for regularity of the mass extinctions discovered
by Raup and Sepkowski [3]
According to this theory a companion star, called also cosmic
terrorist Nemesis, orbiting the Sun, perturbs the Oort comet
cloud every 26 millions years causing comet showers in the
solar system. Muller believes Nemesis is most likely a
red dwarf star, magnitude between 7 and 12, that should be
visible with binoculars once localized.
In 1999 Matese, Whitman and Whitmire published a paper [4]
in which they came to a similar conclusions by statistical
analysis of 82 new class I Oort cloud comets. The
next paper, entitled Supportive Evidence for a Brown
Dwarf Solar Companion, [5]
uses an extended database which has increased the number of
comets from 82 to 89. The putative brown dwarf is
expected to be located somewhere along the arc of 135 and
135+180=315 degrees of galactic longitude:
Figure 11 Graph
by Matese showing cometary scatter patterns which may suggest
the orbit of the “Perturber.” By permission.
When we look at the mythology of the
"Winged Disc" that occurs in both Mesopotamia and
Ancient Egypt, we begin to realize that this symbol does not
refer to a "Tenth Planet, " but to the presence in
our own solar system of the Sun's dark sister, a failed star
classified as a "brown dwarf."
It also seems to be the one hypothesis
that encompasses all the "sub-hypotheses" of the
many researchers who have attempted to deal with different
aspects of the problems of the past and future of the earth.
Sitchin proposed that a "10th Planet" caroms
through the inner solar system. Scientific evidence does not
support a body the size he suggests, entering into the inner
solar system. However, science can support a cluster of comets
spread out in space.
Sitchin suggests that his 10th planet is inhabited by the
Annunaki/Nefilim. He claims that they are our creators and
masters. His ideas are tremendously out of synch with the
strong circumstantial evidence about the alien presence on
this planet. Sitchin's ideas are also flawed for the other
reasons we have already mentioned, though he has certainly
produced inspired work in his interpretations of the Sumerian
texts as being related to "alien interactions" and
the periodic return of something!
Other theorists suggest that the Dark Companion of the Sun
has its own habitable planetary system, home to the mythical
'gods' of the ancient world. This theory, that a brown
dwarf with its own planetary system, is able to pass through
the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt, keeping its own mini-solar
system intact, is obviously extremely problematical. In
the same way that Sitchin simply passes right over the
problems of Nibiru seeding life on earth, forgetting that
evolutionary processes that are being postulated must apply to
both bodies, the creator of the "Dark
Star: Have Planets; Will Travel" theory also does not
consider the fundamental problem of such an idea.
The two great themes of myth are the yearning for the
golden age and a terror of a world destroying catastrophe.
And the two ideas are inextricably linked to each other.
In virtually all of the stories about the Fall from Eden and
the Flood of Noah, the great celestial bodies in the heavens
were said to have been out of control.
Kochab is an obscure Arabic name that might simply mean
"star." It is just barely the second
brightest, and appropriately the Beta, star in Ursa Minor, and
represents the top front bowl star of the Little Dipper.
Only 15 degrees from the north celestial pole, middle
northerners can see it every night as it follows its small
circular path. Together with the other bowl star (Pherkad,
the Gamma star), it makes a small asterism called the
"Guardians of the Pole." In myth, it seems
that the function of these stars is to "protect" the
pole star. (This star has run out of hydrogen fuel and
is an evolving orange giant star running on helium, giving off
infrared light). The importance of this star is that it
was referred to as the `Mill Peg' and with the other stars
surrounding the North Pole, was called the "hole of the
mill peg because they represent as it were, a hole (the axle
ring) in which the mill axle turns since the axle of the
equator (the polar axis) is to be found in this region, fairly
close to the star Al-jadi (Polaris). There is a myth
associated with this that the Mill Peg which held the earth
upright had broken loose and the polar axis had tilted.
Now the serpent connected to the Garden of Eden story and
Draconis was the old, evil serpent. The constellation
Draco and Hercules and Ophiuchus and Serpens are associated in
ancient mythology, illustrating the struggle between mankind
and serpentkind. In ancient times, Draconis was on top
of the World-tree and laid in the same plane as the equator,
so the days and nights were equal year round - a true
`paradise'. When the axis of the earth tilted, the
`Serpent was cast down'.
What seems to be a more "pristine" version of the
story is that of Amlodhi, of Icelandic legend, who owned a
mill which, in his own time, “ground out peace and
plenty.” Later, in decaying times, it ground out salt.
Finally, it fell to the bottom of the ocean and was grinding
out rock and sand, creating a vast whirlpool, the Maelstrom.
According to Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend,
this myth was evidence for an astronomical process, the
precession of the zodiac. This is the shifting of the
sun through the signs of the zodiac, and, according to them,
it determines “world ages.” They write:
Now
it is time to locate the origin of the image of the Mill, and
further, what its alleged breakup and the coming into being of
Whirlpool can possibly mean.
The
starting place is in Greece. Cleomedes (c. AD
150), speaking of the northern latitudes, states (1.7): “The
heavens there turn around in the way a millstone does.”
Al-Farghani in the East takes up the same idea, and his
colleagues will supply the details. They call the star
Kochab, Beta Ursae Minoris, “mill peg,” and the stars of
the Little Bear, surrounding the North Pole, and Fas al-rahha
(the hole of the mill peg) “because they represent, as it
were, a hole (the axle ring) in which the mill axle turns,
since the axle of the equator (the polar axis) is to be found
in this region, fairly close to the star Al-jadi…"
These are the words of the Arab Cosmographer al-Kazvini.
Ideler comments: “Koth, the common name of the Pole,
means really the axle of the movable upper millstone which
goes through the lower fixed on, what is called the
‘mill-iron."
…The Bhagavata
Purana tells us how the virtuous prince Dhruva was
appointed as Pole star. The particular virtue of the
prince, which alarmed even the gods, is worth mentioning: he
stood on one leg for more than a month, motionless.
This is what was announced to him: “The stars and their
figures, and also the planets shall turn around you.”[…]
There is a
remark by Trimalchio in Petronius (Satyricon
39): “Thus the orb of heaven turns around like a
millstone, and ever does something bad.” It was
not a foreign idea to the ancients that the mills of the gods
grind slowly, and that the result is usually pain.[6]
The nine
grim goddesses who “once ground Amlodhi’s meal,” working
now that “host-cruel skerry quern” beyond the edge of
the world, are in Mundlfoeri, literally “the mover of
the handle.” The word mundil …”is
never used in the old Norse literature about any other object
than the sweep or handle with which the movable millstone is
turned.
Here we have a clue that refers directly to something that
"turns the mill." The "nine grim
goddesses," which we may identify with the Egyptian
Ennead, are located in the "handle."
The case is
then established. But there is an ambiguity here which
discloses further depths to the idea. “Moendull”
comes from Sanskrit “Manthati,” says Rydberg, “it
means to swing, twist, bore …Its direct application always
refers to the production of fire by friction.”[7]
And here we see the idea of a binary star system moving in
tandem orbit with one another.
The
identity of the Mill, in its many versions, with heaven is
thus universally understood and accepted. But hitherto
nobody seems to have wondered about the second part of the
story, which also occurs in the many versions. How and
why does it always happen that this Mill, the peg of which is
Polaris, had to be wrecked or unhinged? Once the archaic
mind had grasped the forever enduring rotation, what caused it
to think that the axle jumps out of the hole? What
memory of catastrophic events has created this story of
destruction? Why should Vainamoinen … state explicitly
that another Mill has to be constructed? Why had Dhruva
to be appointed to play Pole star – and for a given cycle?
For the story refers in no way to the creation of the world.[8]
The simple
answer lies in the facts of the case. The Pole star does
get out of place, and every few thousand years another star
has to be chosen which best approximates that position.
It is well known that the Great Pyramid, so carefully sighted,
is not oriented at our Pole Star, but at alpha Draconis, which
occupied the position at the pole 5,000 years ago. …It
is the more difficult for moderns to imagine that in those
far-off ages men could keep track of such imperceptible
shifting, as many of them are not aware of the mere facts.[9]
This remark about the Pyramid being oriented to Draconis is
an ignorant remark. The fact is, the orientation of the
pyramid to the pole remains constant. It is only the pole
stars that change.
Most of
these myths, however, come under a misleading name. They
have been understood to deal with the end of the world.
…What actually comes to an end is a world, in the sense of a
world-age.
Coherence
will be reestablished in this welter of traditions if it is
realized that what is referred to is the grandest of heavenly
phenomena, the Precession of the Equinoxes.[10]
Now, did you notice what these two authors have done here?
Aside from their abysmally ignorant remark about the
orientation of the pyramids to Draconis, they have resorted to
Uniformitarianism to explain the great mystery of this
worldwide myth of the “unhinging” of the Pole star.
They, and many, many others, have followed this path,
believing that all the clues from ancient monuments and myths
have to do simply with measuring time, “World
Ages,” in more or less “cultural” and historical terms.
The World Age of the Hebrews was the age of the Ram,
symbolized by Abraham taking his son to sacrifice him, and a
Ram appeared in the thicket, and such other allusions. The age
of Pisces, the age of Christ, is symbolized by the fish, and
numerous allusions are dredged up to support that one.
Now, we are supposed to be entering (or have already done so,
depending on your source), the Age of Aquarius.
I should point out right here that if the Precession of the
Zodiac was such a great way to measure time and world
ages, there wouldn’t be so many opinions about when one
began and another ended. As a measure of time that is so
“vastly elegant,” it ought to at least work, right?
Well, it doesn’t. What is more, the zodiac has been
created and altered within recorded history, having at various
times ten signs, eleven, twelve and thirteen. So, what's
the point? From this perspective, there isn't one except
for an attempt to deny the possibility that the ancients meant
exactly what they said even if they did tell the stories as
allegories.
But still, using this Precession as a giant clock, with
some fantastic perambulations through archaic lore, a dozen or
more authors have produced as many different versions of what
a “world age” is, and “when” they begin and end, and
how. They then try to link these ages to all sorts of
weird theories from the opening of "stargates" to
galactic core explosions to "monuments to the end of
time."
The answer is a lot more simple than that. I think
that those things that point us to the idea that the pole
comes “unhinged” do, indeed point to the Precession.
But the important thing about this Precession is that it
points us to the fact that the Earth WOBBLES. And I
think that the thing the ancients are trying most desperately
to point out to us in these stories is that the Earth wobbles
for a REASON, and we ought to notice this wobble and ask some
questions about the "nine grim goddesses" who
"turn the handle" and where and what that
"handle" might be that increases friction to the
point that fire is produced!
In Snorri’s[11]
Gylfaginning, there is a prediction for the
future given in the Song of the Sybyl, followed
by a dialogue between King Gylfi and the Aesir,[12]
disguised as men. King Gylfi asks: “What happens when
the whole world has burned up, the gods are dead, and all of
mankind is gone? You have said earlier that each human
being would go on living in this or that world.” The
answer is that there are several worlds for the good and the
bad. Then Gylfi asks: “Shall any gods be alive, and
shall there be something of earth and heaven?"” And the
answer is:
The earth
rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and
things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive,
for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and
they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard.
There come also the sons of Thor, Modi, and Magni, and bring
along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from
the other world. All sit down and converse together.
They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days.
Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir
once played with. Two children of men will also be found
safe from the great flames of Surt. Their names,
Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the morning dew and from
this human pair will come a great population which will fill
the earth. And strange to say, the sun, before being
devoured by Fenrir, will have borne a daughter, no less
beautiful and going the same ways as her mother.”
Again, the authors of Hamlet’s Mill take a
prosaic view of these matters, pronouncing sagely that it is
“just a metaphor.” And again, I have to disagree.
I do not think that the point is to “measure time,” in the
sense of “world ages” of culture, civilizations, or even
“psychic” or occult influences, except in that they relate
to something far more important: WHAT IS CAUSING THE WOBBLE
AND WHAT CAN BE THE RESULT? And we have a clear answer in
Snorri's tale: The sun will have borne a daughter...
In this sense, the ancients might have supposed, and quite
rightly, that if we ever noticed this fact, if we were pointed
in this direction, if we were plainly told that there is a
handle that turns the axis, that this handle gets hot, that
the axis of the planet comes unhinged, that it started out
spinning upright and then gradually wobbled out of place and
finally FALLS OVER INTO THE SEA, that we would be clever
enough to get it. The clue they are pointing out to us
is that there is something OUT THERE that sets the whole thing
spinning, and we ought to be able to figure out, by applying
principles of atomic physics to celestial mechanics, exactly
what it is and what it does. The repeated references to
the “dying and rebirth of the Sun,” in some sort of cosmic
hierogamy and the Sun giving birth to a daughter, or having a
Celestial Twin ought to be pretty plain clues to anybody who
is paying attention to these things.
Now, getting to the recent
pronouncements about Zecharia Sitchin and his prophecies. The
email forwarded to me said:
Zecharia
Sitchin, the world renowned scholar & archaeologist now
finally agrees, quote: "I prophecize the return of this
planet called Nibiru AT THIS TIME!"
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/sitchin.html
Trusting
the Pentagon/gov't to guard itself & relay needed
information to protect you is clearly illogical. In July the
red planet "2001 KX76" was disclosed. This was the
original cover-label for Planet X, Nibiru, Wormwood, or THE
MOST REVERED HEAVENLY BODY IN ALL ANTIQUITY. After 3600 years
on its regular orbit it will pass again in SPRING 2003. It's
RECORDED IN ANCIENT TEXTS & the SCIENCE OF ARCHEOLOGY
shows its effect on Earth with each passage. Yes, some
conspiracies are without merit, ignoring history and science
is another matter.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010702/kuiper.html#
By August
2001 the disinformation had changed to the LARGEST ASTERIOD
EVER and it's now shown as blue. It's the same label on a
different object.
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2001/phot-27-01.html#note3
When the
attention was drawn to the area by announcing the
"Largest Asteriod" was there, they made sure the
color of the new "2001 KX76" was blue. All
speculation about a large DULL RED brown dwarf being there was
to be avoided. This is one of their tactics for hiding Planet
X. First giving it a label, then using that same label for
another object to misdirect attention. X is not a red KBO. The
original color was not red for photographic reasons. Too many
stories for the color change is just the first of many obvious
clues of a cover up. They will continue to identify objects
ahead and around X to misdirect attention.
The normal
helpful & professional Nasa employees are being evasive
& condescending when asked about it.
X has
INTENTIONALLY BEEN MADE TO SOUND RIDICULOUS and confusing for
several reasons. One of which is to avoid causing panic among
the world's population. Many websites and articles continue to
be written about Planet X that spread lies. They say it only
MAY exist and comes around only once every few million years
IF it does. This disinformation is widespread.
X orbits
between our sun and its dark twin. A diagram from the 1987 NEW
SCIENCE & INVENTION ENCYCLOPEDIA shows our dead twin sun
& the 10th planet.
X's MASS,
MAGNETISM & DENSITY is such that it DISRUPTS the surface
of EVERY PLANET IT PASSES. In fact, history shows
approximately 7 YEARS PRIOR to its passage its far reaching
eletromagnetic/gravitational influence changes Earths core
flows TRIGGERING WEATHER, VOLCANIC & SEISMIC ACTIVITY.
Since early 1996 traditional WEATHER has CHANGED DRAMATICALLY,
breaking all time records regularly. The up-tick of QUAKES,
VOLCANIC INCIDENTS & changes in ELECTROMAGNETICS are being
kept out of the media as much as possible. Weather alone can
falsely be blamed on global warming & sun cycles but not
earths rumblings at the same time.
Research
the advent of PLANET X and the cataclysms it will trigger by
passing EARTH. Being prepared and FOREWARNED gives one an
EXCELLENT CHANCE to SURVIVE.
"BLINDSIDED,
PLANET X Passes in 2003, EARTHCHANGES!"
Even the
majority of the earthchange intuitives prophecies are tied
into or name Planet X.
ALL OTHER
NEWS PALES IN COMPARISON TO THIS IMPENDING MEGA WORLD WIDE
EVENT OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS.
Well, when I went to the above websites to get the
confirmation that "Planet X" had been sighted, I
found the following (excerpted):
July
3 — The discovery of a large reddish chunk of
something orbiting in Pluto's neighborhood has re-ignited
the idea that there may be more than nine planets in the solar
system.[...] What the discoverers are calling 2001 KX76 might
be one of the largest "Kuiper Belt Objects" or KBO's,
found in the what is essentially a second asteroid belt beyond
the orbit of Neptune. Initial reports give 2001 KX76 a
diameter of 900 to 1200 kilometers — roughly the size of
Pluto's moon, Charon. Pluto itself, it should be noted, is
smaller than our own moon.
Now, please note right up front here that this very first
announcement is rather straightforward about the issue as to
whether or not this object ought to be called a
"planet" or not. The email above waxes hysterical
about color, but pays absolutely no attention to the size
designation. Here is the initial photo:
"Because KBOs are believed to have
very elongated orbits around the sun they spend a lot of
time on dark, centuries-long excursions into deep space. That
makes them very hard to find, said astronomer Robert Millis,
director of the Lowell Observatory, which was involved in the
discovery. [...]
"There are certainly lots of (KBOs) in distant parts
of their orbits now and we can't detect them," said
Millis. The possibility that 2001 KX76 has big brothers and
sisters again raises the thorny question of what can be called
a planet and what cannot. [...] Historically, Pluto was
designated a planet when it was discovered in the 1930s
because it was thought to be much larger than it is, Marsden
said. [...] If 2001 KX76 is any indication of larger KBOs out
there, it might also lead to the demotion of Pluto from
puniest planet to king of KBOs, said Marsden.
Millis prefers a third alternative: "There may exist a
new class of planets."
Now, please notice the point of the discussion and the size
of the object: 1200KM. Let's have a look at the issue in the
second site referred to in the above, hysterical email wherein
it is now claimed that the disinformation process has set in
by changing the color of the object in both the photo and the
article:
23 August 2001: Ceres, the first asteroid
(minor planet) to be discovered in the Solar System, has held
the record as the largest known object of its kind for two
centuries. However, recent observations at the European
Southern Observatory with the world's first operational
virtual telescope 'Astrovirtel' have determined that the
newly discovered distant asteroid "2001 KX76" is
significantly larger, with a diameter of 1200 km, possibly
even 1400 km.
"Caption: ESO PR Photo 27a/01 shows a reproduction of
a colour composite image, based on three exposures with the
Wide Field Imager (WFI) at the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the
La Silla Observatory. By combining data from the world's first
operational "virtual telescope", Astrovirtel, with
that from a conventional telescope at the European Southern
Observatory (ESO) at La Silla (Chile), European astronomers
have determined the size of the newly found, remote asteroid,
2001 KX76. Their measurements indicate that this icy rock has
a diameter of at least 1200 km and is therefore larger than
any other known asteroid in the Solar System. The previous
record-holder, the asteroid Ceres, was also the first object
of its type to be discovered - by the Italian astronomer
Giuseppe Piazzi on January 1, 1801. Its diameter is about 950
km, relegating it to second place after holding the asteroid
size record for two hundred years."
Now, let's just get clear about this. The very first
article was about an object that no one was sure whether they
ought to call it a planet or not. It was larger than what we
call asteroids, but smaller than Pluto. So, it was, at first,
called a planet. But please note, the size was given in the
first article, and it was then reiterated, only given a
likelihood of being slightly larger than the original estimate
in the second article. So, the entire discussion was about
whether to call this object a planet or an asteroid. And,
apparently, it was decided that "asteroid" was a
better choice until the decision about what size constituted
being a planet was decided once and for all.
And how BIG is this putative "Planet X?" This
gigantic and terrifying object that Zecharia Sitchin predicted
and which is now being claimed to be hidden from us in this
tricky shell-game by NASA?
Well, have a look for yourself.
The first
scientific results from Astrovirtel have allowed a substantial
improvement of the accuracy of the computed orbit for 2001
KX76. It is now possible to confirm that this object is just
outside that of the most remote known major planet Pluto.
Further
analysis carried out by the team seems to indicate that the
orbit of 2001 KX76 is very similar to that of Pluto. Asteroid
2001 KX76 is even larger than Pluto's moon Charon (diameter
1150 km), adding fuel to the discussions concerning Pluto's
status as a "major" or "minor" planet. The
new data show that 2001 KX76 is about half the size of Pluto
(diameter about 2300 km) and this increases the likelihood
that there are other bodies still to be discovered in the
outer Solar System that are similar in size to Pluto.
The first
observations of 2001 KX76 were quite sparse, so the initial
estimates of the size of the new asteroid were very uncertain.
However, it did look large, possibly about the same size as
the largest known asteroid, Ceres, the diameter of which had
earlier been measured at about 950 km.
In order to
measure the size of any asteroid, it is necessary first to
determine its orbit around the Sun, which gives its present
distance from the Earth. The next step is to estimate its
"albedo", i.e. the percentage of incident sunlight
reflected from its surface. From these numbers and the
measured, apparent brightness of the asteroid (as seen from
the Earth), its diameter can finally be derived.
To
determine the orbit of 2001 KX76, the group used "Astrovirtel"
to apply automatic search software to scan through
"old" photographic plates obtained with various
astronomical telescopes, as well as recent CCD observations
made with the ESO Wide Field Imager (WFI) at the MPG/ESO 2.2 m
telescope on La Silla (Chile). The search was successful: the
astronomers were able to find several photographic plates on
which faint images of 2001 KX76 could be identified - some of
these plates had been obtained as early as 1982. The exact sky
positions were measured and with accurate positional data now
available over a time span of no less than 18 years, the team
was able to compute the first, high-precision orbit of 2001
KX76. This also allowed to determine that the current distance
from the Earth which turned out to be about 6.5 billion km,
corresponding to 43 times the distance of the Earth from the
Sun, or nearly one-and-a-half times farther from the Sun than
Neptune.
Thanks to
the work of this group of astronomers, the orbit of 2001 KX76
may now be considered relatively secure and it may therefore
soon receive a real name. [See note at end of page.]
Now, what are we to make of all of this?
It's fairly evident that I am not saying that something is
not going to happen. After laying out the evidence that there
is, indeed, a 3600 year cycle, and that the last
"hit" was right around 3600 years ago, no one can
accuse me of not being as "catastrophic" as the next
person. In fact, I think that what we are suggesting here,
including our findings that something is definitely being
hidden from us, is singularly catastrophic. In fact, it is
damn scary.
However, we believe that having accurate information about
these matters is not just important, but that it is CRUCIAL.
The Cassiopaeans have given us the clues. We have followed
and are continuing to follow them and make discoveries that
are grounded in scientific fact. We have discovered that there
is, indeed, a Control System; that the influence of science
has been to institute a form of Thought Control. But it most
certainly does not operate the way the Rumormongers and
purveyors of hysterical, half-baked theories would have us
believe.
What is more, there is much, much more to this matter at
the present time than meets the eye. There are many other
clues, and we are making discoveries regarding these clues
almost daily. We are also coming under increasing financial
pressure that is obviously an attempt to prevent further
discoveries, as well as deliberate attacks from various
"cells" of the Thought Police intended to dissuade
us from pursuing our present research.
What do I think? I think that, based on what the
Cassiopaeans have said, supported by our research to this
point, it is very likely that we are already experiencing some
of the comets from the cluster that has been cycling through
the solar system on that 3600 year orbit. In fact, we - or our
Moon - may get hit by a couple of small ones in the next year
or two. But I think that, for the most part, this former group
has lost its potency. It is scattered and dissipated. Indeed,
it seems likely that it is time for the birth of a new cluster
from "between
the thighs of the Ennead."
I think that we will witness some amazing astronomical
phenomena in the next few years. "Signs in the Sun and
Moon." I think that the powerful activity of the Sun
during this sunspot maximum has been because its companion is
drawing close. It is not yet close enough to be seen, but that
will probably change. We may see it in the next year or two.
There will be more solar activity. The companion star will be
seen to "interact" with its primary similar to
observations of other binary star interactions. A "hieros
gamos" of cosmic proportions will take place. Earthquakes
will shake the earth. Volcanoes will erupt. Sitchin will go on
a veritable world tour of lectures declaring that this is the
appearance of Nibiru and that he was "the first" to
predict it. He will be lionized, courted, interviewed, and
trotted out on all the television shows. Oprah will kiss his
cheek and Art Bell will give him a regular spot.
But the important thing to remember is this: It will not be
a planet Nibiru. There is no "Planet Nibiru." But
there IS a sun's companion, Nemesis. And, even if this
companion star is seen, it will never enter the inner solar
system. That is not the way these types of bodies interact
with each other. The closest that Nemesis will come is
probably the orbit of Pluto. It will then "go away."
Everyone will settle down and think that nothing is going to
happen. Sitchin will be disgraced because his predicted giant
planet won't do what he says it will do. Oprah will no longer
take his calls, and Art Bell will not answer his faxes.
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But that will not be the end of the matter... Because the
important thing to remember about the appearance of a Dark
Star at the outer reaches of our solar system is that, in
order to get close enough to be seen, it has to pass
through the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt... like a
bowling ball through a row of pins. What is more, the
macrocosmic quantum changes that could result from an
interaction between a binary star system are too poorly known,
and may contribute to an entirely different cometary
intinerary. Cometary bodies that are slammed into the Solar
System by a gravitationally heavy object may proceed rather
more quickly than one would suppose.
And so, in addition to whatever is left over of a cyclical
cometary swarm from the previous interaction with our Sun's
companion, will be augmented by a whole new grouping.
In closing, allow me to repeat a quote from Noah:
One of the
chief proponents of catastrophe theory in the last century was
Immanuel Velikovsky. Criticisms aimed at Velikovsky
included remarks stating that his vision “showed little
respect for the laws of physics: In his books, planets
change orbits - in blatant violation of the laws of mechanics
- and go crashing into other planets.”[1]
Is this
attack really justified? Is talk about jumping planets
evidence of ignorance, as the authors of Three Big Bangs
seem to imply?
In a paper
published in a collection entitled: The Stability of the
Solar System and of Small Stellar Systems, Jeno M.
Barthomy[2] wrote: “It is
conceivable that when the Earth was formed, it occupied a
higher quantum state, and by releasing energy in the form of
gravitational waves ‘jumped’ to its present ‘ground
state.’ I do not wish as yet to speculate on a
possible gravitational wave spectrum emitted from newly formed
planetary systems in the universe.”
How can
such jumps occur in terms of more conventional concepts?
G.J Sussman and Jack Wisdom wrote in 1992: “The
evolution of the Solar System is chaotic. Exponential
divergence of nearby trajectories is indicative of chaotic
behavior.”[3]
Up to the
present time the computer simulations that have been done [4]
have not even attempted to take into account a possible
cosmic intruder - the brown dwarf Sun’s companion whose
existence and properties have been researched by R.
Muller and J. Matese. [5]
They also did not try to take into account a possible fractal
structure of space-time, which was the subject of a series
of papers and of a monograph by French astrophysicist Laurent
Nottale.[6]
I have
discussed Nottale’s rules of quantization of planetary
systems in my notes in the present work. Here it is
enough to say that fractal and multidimensional structure of
space-time, along the ideas put forward by many physicists,
astronomers and astrophysicists, whose works are quoted in
this book, make cosmic jumps plausible. My own
research added one more factor here: as discussed in this
work, it is one of the conclusions of EEQT that,
as a rule, couplings of quantum systems to classical ones
induce chaotic behavior and fractal-like patterns of
quantum jumps.[7] That
may be one of the reasons why space-time is fractal-like both
in micro- and in macro-scale.
The
event generating algorithm that is at the foundation of EEQT
can be easily modified, using cosmic scale coupling constants,
to describe such jumps in terms of a piecewise
deterministic Markov process, when prolonged periods of
continuous evolution are interspersed by jumps of a random
character.
The main
feature of EEQT is that it provides an algorithm
for describing the history of an individual system, where
jumps really take place. Therefore it provides
appropriate tools for dealing not only with micro-particles
but also with cosmic bodies, as discussed in this present
work.
It
may also put tools into our hands that will help us to
intervene in the “events” of Cosmic Catastrophe.
The primary
message of Noah is that one such continuous
period may be coming to an end soon, and that the target
quantum state after the jump is not fully determined. Our
actions, or our lack of action now, shape the probability
distribution of our future “after the Flood” environment.
Paraphrasing
slightly the quote from Niels Bohr’s friend Piet Hein, as
used in John Archibald Wheeler’s Geons, Black Holes
and Quantum Foam:[8]
We
need to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it’s out.
And time is running out.
[1]
Hills 85
[1]
This shows clearly to what extent the greenhouse effect has
been overestimated in comparison with the solar contribution
to climate change, which turns out to be the most important
factor.
[5]
[Matese 99, 00, Mueller 88,
96]
[6]
[Nottale 93, Nottale 97]
Note:The 'Virtual Observatory'
concept, for which "Astrovirtel" is a prototype, is
the start of a new era in astronomy. A larger study project
called the 'Astrophysical Virtual Observatory' is now about to
start within the Fifth EC Framework programme as a
collaboration between ESO, ESA (ST-ECF), the University of
Edinburgh (UK), CDS (Strasbourg, France), CNRS (Paris, France)
and the University of Manchester (UK).
Observatory (ESO). Credit to "ESA, ESO, Astrovirtel
and Gerhard Hahn (German Aerospace Center, DLR)".
Members of the group of scientists involved in these
observations are: Gerhard Hahn (German Aerospace Center, DLR,
Berlin; http://earn.dlr.de/daneops/), Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist
(Uppsala University, Sweden; http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/asteroid/),
Karri Muinonen, Jukka Piironen and Jenni Virtanen (University
of Helsinki, Finland; http://www.astro.helsinki.fi/~spa/),
Andreas Doppler and Arno Gnaedig (Archenhold Sternwarte,
Berlin, Germany) and Francesco Pierfederici (ST-ECF/ESO).
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