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originally posted by: eriktheawful
Well a "plane" in geometry has no thickness to it (except as a single point), so technically, and especially at 7 km/s, the sun and Earth would past through that point in a instant.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Asktheanimals
No, the mass of the moon does not change, but its alignment with the sun does. That's where the gravitational anomaly comes in.
TheRedneck
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: eriktheawful
I think we're talking two different terminologies. There have been plenty of astronomers that verified that we did indeed cross a galactic plane on December 21, 2012. That plane would be the imaginary plane that extends through the mass center of the galaxy, calculated by a Gaussian curve that takes into account the various distances of the different masses from it. Obviously that is far from precise calculations (we don't even know exact locations of the various bodies), but it is an educated guess and the best we have.
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Asktheanimals
No, the mass of the moon does not change, but its alignment with the sun does. That's where the gravitational anomaly comes in.
TheRedneck
I was only thinking about the light aspect of it but you're right of course. So does the inverse apply? Do we have less violence, odd events during a new moon? Might be fun to find out.
When the moon is full or new, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are combined. At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low. This is known as a spring high tide. Spring tides are especially strong tides (they do not have anything to do with the season Spring). They occur when the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are in a line. The gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun both contribute to the tides. Spring tides occur during the full moon and the new moon.
The Proxigean Spring Tide is a rare, unusually high tide. This very high tide occurs when the moon is both unusually close to the Earth (at its closest perigee, called the proxigee) and in the New Moon phase (when the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth). The proxigean spring tide occurs at most once every 1.5 years.
To a much smaller extent, tides also occur in large lakes, the atmosphere, and within the solid crust of the earth, acted upon by these same gravitational forces of the moon and sun.
Do we have less violence, odd events during a new moon? Might be fun to find out.
do astronauts in orbit get angrier when they are aligned to the moon and sun? They might expect a larger effect since no earth to dampen the other gravity influence? Just wondering out loud.
The lunar hypothesis, that is, the notion that lunar phases can directly affect human behavior, was tested by time-series analysis of 4,575 crisis center telephone calls (all calls recorded for a 6-month interval). As expected, the lunar hypothesis was not supported. The 28-day lunar cycle accounted for less than 1% of the variance of the frequency of crisis center calls. Also, as hypothesized from an attribution theory framework, crisis center workers reported significantly greater belief in lunar effects than a non-crisis-center-worker comparison group.
Astronomy tells us that we crossed the galactic plane several million years ago. The supposed Maya thing? I haven't seen any indication that they had any such beliefs (seems to be stuff made up by purveyors of 2012 nonsense) but there is this (which has nothing to do with the galactic plane):
Oh, I thought you had something on the galactic plane crossing or Mayan calendar-based beliefs.
Do those studies take into account such things as weekends?
I have also looked at studies both pro and con. The bottom line is that for every study you can produce that says no statistical significance, I can produce one that says there is.