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Originally posted by ZikhaN
Originally posted by Toelint
Did I read that article right? I swear in one quote, the writer says we've experienced no less than EIGHT rotations around the Milky Way, at an off-angle...and then in another quote, the writer says our course will change and we'll join our galactic brethern on a permanent equatorial rotation.
Well, I gotta ask...which is it?
There's obviously some kind of confusion. It's still only considered a theory, so I'm going with the first quote.
Btw, I'm really enjoying everybodys posts. You guys really know how to back up your theories. I'm not experienced enough to join the argument yet, but I'm getting there
[edit on 24-6-2007 by ZikhaN]
in visually vivid detail how its debris wraps around and passes through our Milky Way
"The shape of the Sagittarius debris trail shows us that the Milky Way's unseen dark matter is in a spherical distribution, a result that is quite unexpected," Weinberg said.
"The observations provide new insights into the nature of the mysterious dark matter," said Princeton's Spergel. "Either our galaxy is unusual or the dark matter has richer properties than postulated by conventional models."
To measure our solar system, scientists study the places where the Sun's influence ends and interstellar space begins, an area known as the heliosphere
Astrophysicist Rosemary Wyse of Johns Hopkins University has estimated that as much as 10 percent of the stars in the Milky Way's halo came from dwarf galaxies like SagDEG, merging with the Milky Way over the past eight billion years or so. (In November 2003, astronomers announced that an even closer galaxy (located 25,000 ly from Sol and 42,000 ly from the galactic center) called the Canis Major dwarf may be losing stars to the Milky Way's disk as well.)
Originally posted by Scienceguy
--get a look at what this guy just said:
I will not debate/fight somebody who is not in their right mind.
Originally posted by thesun
I hope this does not have dangerous implications for earth and the rest of the solar system
Originally posted by Scienceguy
I am sorry that you think that it is just o.k. take offense and enter into name calling of the discoverer in such manner tho.
[edit on 24-6-2007 by Scienceguy]
Originally posted by Scienceguy
You still appear to be into worshipping published science and us all getting a pat on the head from some august body for 'how to think' in the face of some of greatest original thought and discoveries we have ever come across.
I have seen so much out and out deliberate dumbing down in so many fields and astronomy/astrophysics included-- that I myself do not stand around with arms folded waiting to be told what to think. When things are finally published it is old news in most cases.
Since you have linked the page--
I'm just CURIOUS:
Can you YOURSELF ANSWER WHAT HE IS ASKING?
Give it a shot...
( If I am correct-- the question is so advanced -- simply as just the question, that no one here degreed or not knows the answer without looking it up? )
"Q: Regarding the current positioning of the Poles of the Sun..."
www.esa.int...
"this is due to the way in which the polarity changed during solar maximum. Instead of
reversing completely, flipping north to south, the Sun's magnetic poles have only rotated
at halfway and are now more or less lying sideways along the Sun's equator."
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[ Q: ]
"I understand from the quote that those were the measurements at the time of how the poles were magnetically positioning themselves as configuration. Has this configuration remained as an equatorial placement of the N/S poles still lying E/W? Are there further documents indicating the precise current positioning as actual measurements taken that I can in fact
reference in the interests of scientific accuracy?
Thank you for your professional courtesy on achieving the accurate answer to this question."
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Scienceguy again:
If I am correct-- the question is so advanced simply as a question, that no one here knows the answer without looking it up?
Infact -- even upon giving you time to look it up-- I think that even just the QUESTION he is asking is so advanced that we will have to educate ourselves before we even have a clue...
And you are trying to actually fault - find - discredit - and even belittle this guy who is apparently freely sharing all this to humanity on a free blog no less?
Sad.
I am part of a sad, sad, race full of such jealousy and ingratitude.
Originally posted by Yandros
How do we even know the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy? We have no way of seeing it from above. As far as I know, this is just an informed guess to begin with based on the shape of other galaxies we can see from above.
Originally posted by St Udio
Originally posted by laiguana
Our solar system wasn't around when the galaxies collided right? Well I know the earth wasn't...I don't know about the sun...forgot how old that fella was. But I would think that the time this mini galaxy first smashed into the milkway it would have been way before our solar system was pooped out. Well I guess I'll look it up somewhere.
your hitting on something there,
scientists have deduced that the earth is about 4.5 billion years old
and the sun a max. of 10 billion years
so it would figure(or not figure) that the primeval solar system
was gobbled up by the larger milky-way, but hasn't had the time
to be completely assimilated...as evidenced by the apparent skewed
galactic horizons we in the Earth's solar system have in a sort of 'discordance' with the 'home' galaxy....
in another reference, it was pointed out that the earth's solar system
(a captured part of a different galaxy) has traversed the Milky-Way for ~8
galactic revolutions---the same scientists and recent extrapolations
have determined that a galactc rotation takes near 250,000,000 [250million years]===which, mathematically equates to 2 Billion Years
so that means the sun, Earth & solar system of 7 other planets,
along with the Oort cloud, the asteroid belt, all made it throught a gallactic merging...intact,
or a near as possible to our present condition without any major alteration in the solar systems profile for all those 2-to-10 billion years ?!
next, i recall that our sun & solar system is a product of a 3rd generation
supernova of suns....that is the only possible way all the heavy & exotic & complex elements in the abundance needed to create these inner rocky planets would have in the known laws of physics/science to become the real objects in space we see & know today
A dwarf galaxy is not a crucible furnace to generate this series of 3rd generation supernova...so at best the Earth/Sol solar system is born in the MilkyWay...but may have been 'tilted' as a result of this hypothetical collision/merging of Galaxies....
i rest on what i've said,
your >(the OP Author) extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs, not just fantastic; Ifs, suppositions, fictional scenarios....
enjoy
[edit on 23-6-2007 by St Udio]
Originally posted by Scienceguy
Quote:
"next, i recall that our sun & solar system is a product of a 3rd generation
supernova of suns...."
'Quoted' is theoretic data, presupposed upon a discussion as a deductive reasoning default-- for even in this snippet you have defaulted to a foundational theory that is only conjecture and not established as fact in the case of our solar system creation. You do not see in the new science presented what you can cognize as the answer that you can personally agree with, so what have you resorted to? You have defaulted to some other conclusion in hand as though it were fact-- based upon a suppositional theory -- the only other conclusion you have been exposed to, or allowed yourself to consider. Deductive reasoning is faulty in that if you don't have the answer in the pool that you are drawing from you choose the last one that is left to be chosen by default-- even though it may not be the true answer.
Inductive reasoning is altogether different in that it also permits the idea that old science and/or older understanding has not arrived yet at the true answer in the past and that more original thought is in fact required before jumping to such an incomplete conclusion and therefore wrong answer.
What you see is clearly backed up with the New Star Map, as well as the actual positioning in the sky before us of a Milky Way that is clearly sideways in the sky.
We have some smart people here... very smart people, and I am duly impressed-- and while I do not pretend to have all the answers, when I see fudging for the sake of either quashing new data or new discoveries just so that some can feel that their take on reality and their world is not falling apart, which can cloud the reasoning all by itself, we have to have the courage to speak up.
This stuff is on the money and you sitting in that chair there personally actually have access to a real first in history-- right in your very lifetime, and you are personally one of the very first few out of billions who has access to real knowledge and real discovery.
It takes real courage to set aside your programming and go for real truth...
What kind of stuff are you personally made of? What kind of courage do you really have to look square in the maw of Truth with a capital "T"..?
How many of you have "actually" had the 'courage' and even "dared" to look up the 10 min. SantaChrist link above?
This (above was my original reply) and appears to be something that stands thus far.
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[edit on 24-6-2007 by Scienceguy]
External Source
To measure our solar system, scientists study the places where the Sun's influence ends and interstellar space begins, an area known as the heliosphere
NO is is not called heliosphere, it is- HELIOPAUSE ... talking about “serious" scientific article!
about heliopouse if somebody is interested
To measure our solar system, scientists study the places where the Sun's influence ends and interstellar space begins, an area known as the heliosphere.