--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As the author of an early software app which calculated a number of > obscure astro. variables for observers, Dr. Pete's observation are > close for an observer on earth--approx. 1 degree every 72 years. As > you probably know, western astrologers stopped including precession > in their horoscopes long before the first millenium CE, thus they > depart from real accuracy in a number of ways since that era. > > Interestingly when I purchased a slew of texts from the library of a > Sanskrit scholar who passed away in the 80's, among the works I got > was the Surya Siddhanta, an old Hindu astronomical text. Apparently > the Indian astronomers had a very old understanding of precession as > this text included the formulae for these calcs.
Perhaps you can shed some light on the following: Peter claims that this precession changes the orientation of buildings over long of time -- that a building facing due east will be facing due west in 13,000 years due to precession (assuming it is still there (this is "thought" experiment -- useful for clarifying concepts.) And this thus makes SV quite releative to time, and makes invalid in the long run. Judy claims that the sun will still rise in the east in 13000 years. I suggest that if Judy is correct, a building correctly facing the sun per SV now will be correctly facing the sun in 13000 years. If Judy is not correct, and Peter is, the sun will be rising from the west in 13000, the building will be facing the wrong way. So who is right? Judy: the sun will still rise in the east in 13000 years. Peter: the sun will be rising from the west in 13000, the building will be facing the wrong way per SV. The postions are mutually exclusive. This is not a "Paradox of Brahman". Both statements cannot be true -- even if some psuedo-enlightened want to suggest that anyone who can't hold both as blissfully true will never be enlightened. :) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
