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mattbatson
so, supposedly this paper here...
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994ApJ...421..505U
is about a part of our galaxy that our solar system is now traveling through, and supposedly only does so every 26k yrs?
At least this is what this guy is claiming...
And he is saying this...""it is an arm of the black hole in the center of the galaxy and though we pass by a rift every 5,200 years we only go THROUGH one once in 26,000. There were several other such published papers but this one was the easiest for my lay-brain to decypher. Think of the rift as full of flotsam and jetsom captured by the black hole's gravity, too far to be sucked in but not far enough out to get away, our solar system, not just the earth, is moving through this cluttered rockin' & rollin' passage. Just a 'speed'bump would be enough make all our nightmares(or dreams) come true""
what he is trying to conclude from this paper is that we might have a life changing event due to all of this.
My question is...I have a sneaky suspicion that this guy is full of it, but am having a hard time explaining exactly WHY I think that, lol.
I'm wondering if I should ask this here? Or in astronomy?
thx
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994ApJ...421..505U
is about a part of our galaxy that our solar system is now traveling through, and supposedly only does so every 26k yrs?
At least this is what this guy is claiming...
And he is saying this...""it is an arm of the black hole in the center of the galaxy and though we pass by a rift every 5,200 years we only go THROUGH one once in 26,000. There were several other such published papers but this one was the easiest for my lay-brain to decypher. Think of the rift as full of flotsam and jetsom captured by the black hole's gravity, too far to be sucked in but not far enough out to get away, our solar system, not just the earth, is moving through this cluttered rockin' & rollin' passage. Just a 'speed'bump would be enough make all our nightmares(or dreams) come true""
what he is trying to conclude from this paper is that we might have a life changing event due to all of this.
My question is...I have a sneaky suspicion that this guy is full of it, but am having a hard time explaining exactly WHY I think that, lol.
I'm wondering if I should ask this here? Or in astronomy?
thx