Horace Heffner wrote:
The orientation of the ambient galactic gravimagnetic field is thus
towards the North Ecliptic Pole in Draco, coming from the South Ecliptic
Pole. Another vortex first (I hope!)
I don't think that could be coincidental, but it is also to be expected,
no? ... or if not - what are the implications?
For those who don't get the distinction, the ecliptic coordinate system
is the astronomical system in which the principal axis is the imaginary
disk which is formed by the path of our sun through the heavens. This
path does not necessarily align perfectly with the galactic plane (which
is the band of stars of the Milky Way, as seen in the night sky. The
ecliptic poles are the two points at which a line perpendicular to the
plane of the ecliptic strikes the surface of an imaginary celestial
sphere of which our Milky Way is only a tiny component. The north
ecliptic pole lies in the constellation Draco.
One would expect that the pole vector of the Milky Way itself would not
be far removed from the ecliptic pole. Like most stars, our sun "orbits"
the large mass in the center of our galaxy (undoubtedly a black hole);
and our galaxy orbits an even larger mass called the "Great Attractor"
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/greatatt.htm
which is in the constellation Cygnus. I hope that I am getting these
constellation details correct, as it has been a while ....
Anyway, I would have expected our galactic gravimagnetic field to be
oriented either towards or away from the great attractor - and indeed
the two- Cygnus and Draco are fairly close but not aligned.
Curiously - when Cygnus and Draco are mentioned together in ancient
Astronomy - this brings up another point of keen interest ... (of the
"how did they knwo that" variety) as the importance of them together
seems to have been appreciated by the Egyptians, if I am not reading too
much into this:
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/dwn_nwy.htm
BTW - The center of the Milky Way galaxy is 28,000 light-years away from
us, but the "Great Attractor" which is a conglomeration of perhaps
100,000 galaxies is a little more obscure and remote. It lies
~400,000,000 light-years away and of course attracts our "local group"
of galaxies (i.e. Andromeda etc.). There are however many things
obscuring our view of the great attractor and it is most probably NOT
the center of the universe and could even be in the opposite direction
for all we know -- and could be one of many 'attractors' for many
super-clusters, which are, in effect - all universes in themselves.
Unless of course, they are all reflected images of one universe ! as has
been mentioned before in a post called "A Hall of Mirrors Universe," in
which yours truly seems to have forgotten how many sides a soccer ball
has. Anyway...
More later,
Jones
