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Beyond 2012: Why the World Didn't End Beyond 2012: Why the World Didn't End Continued from Page 3 Q: Could planets align in a way that impacts Earth? A: There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. One major alignment occurred in 1962, for example, and two others happened during 1982 and 2000. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence THE GALACTIC ALIGNMENT: One of the most bizarre theories about 2012 has built up with very little attention to facts. This idea holds that a cosmic alignment of the sun, Earth, the center of our galaxy -- or universe beyond Earth. It just happens to be the that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the perhaps the galaxy's thick dust clouds -- on the day that Earth's North Pole is tipped farthest rotational poles. However, many of the disaster winter solstice could for some unknown reason from the sun. websites pull a bait-and-switch to fool people. lead to destruction. Such alignments can occur Second, Earth is not within range of They claim a relationship between the rotation but these are a regular occurrence and can cause strong gravitational effects from the black hole and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does no harm (and, indeed, will not even be at its at the center of the galaxy since gravitational change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal closest alignment during the 2012 solstice.) effects decrease as the square of the distance taking place every 400,000 years on average. As The details are as follows: Viewed far from it. Earth is 93 million miles from the sun far as we know, such a magnetic reversal from city lights, a glowing path called the Milky and 165 quadrillion miles from the Milky Way's doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. Way can be seen arching across the starry sky. black hole. The sun and the moon (a smaller Scientists believe a magnetic reversal is very This path is formed from the light of millions of mass, but much closer) are by far the most unlikely to happen in the next few millennia. stars we cannot see individually. It coincides dominant gravitational forces on Earth. with the mid plane of our galaxy, which is why Throughout the course of the year, our distance MORE ABOUT THE POLAR SHIFT: our galaxy is also named the Milky Way. from the Milky Way's black hole changes by Scientists understand that Earth's Thick dust clouds also populate the about one part in 900 million – not nearly magnetic field has flipped its polarity many galaxy. And while infrared telescopes can see enough to cause a real change in gravity's pull. times over the millennia. In other words, if you them clearly, our eyes detect these dark clouds Moreover, we're actually nearest to the galactic were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing only as irregular patches where they dim or center in the summer, not at the winter solstice. what we call north with a magnetic compass in block the Milky Way's faint glow. The most Third, the sun appears to enter the part your hand, the needle would point to 'south.' prominent dark lane stretches from the of the sky occupied by the Dark Rift every year This is because a magnetic compass is constellations Cygnus to Sagittarius and is often at the same time, and its arrival there in Dec. calibrated based on Earth's poles. The N-S called the Great Rift, sometimes the Dark Rift. 2012 portends precisely nothing. markings of a compass would be 180 degrees Another impressive feature of our Enjoy the solstice, by all means, and wrong if the polarity of today's magnetic field galaxy lies unseen in Sagittarius: the galactic don't let the Dark Rift, alignments, solar flares, were reversed. Many doomsday theorists have center, about 28,000 light-years away, which magnetic field reversals, potential impacts or tried to take this natural geological occurrence hosts a black hole weighing some four million alleged Maya end-of-the-world predictions get and suggest it could lead to Earth's destruction. times the sun's mass. in the way. But would there be any dramatic effects? The The claim for 2012 links these two answer, from the geologic and fossil records we pieces of astronomical fact with a third -- the Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf have from hundreds of past magnetic polarity position of the sun near the galactic center on called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is reversals, seems to be 'no.' Dec. 21, the winter solstice for the Northern approaching the Earth and threatening our Reversals are the rule, not the exception. Hemisphere -- to produce something that makes planet with widespread destruction? Earth has settled in the last 20 million years into no astronomical sense at all. A: Nibiru and other stories about a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 As Earth makes its way around the sun, wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is to 300,000 years, although it has been more than the sun appears to move against the background no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or twice that long since the last reversal. A reversal stars, which is why the visible constellations Planet X were real and headed for an encounter happens over hundreds or thousands of years, slowly change with the seasons. On Dec. 21, with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have and it is not exactly a clean back flip. Magnetic 2012, the sun will pass about 6.6 degrees north been tracking it for at least the past decade, and fields morph and push and pull at one another, of the galactic center -- that's a distance that it would be visible by now to the naked eye. with multiple poles emerging at odd latitudes looks to the eye to be about 13 times the full Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is throughout the process. Scientists estimate moon's apparent size -- and it's actually closer a a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain reversals have happened at least hundreds of couple of days earlier. There are different claims in the outer solar system; the closest it can come times over the past three billion years. And about why this bodes us ill, but they boil down to Earth is about 4 billion miles. while reversals have happened more frequently to the coincidence of the solstice with the sun in "recent" years, when dinosaurs walked Earth entering the Dark Rift somehow portending Q: What is the polar shift theory? Is it a reversal was more likely to happen only about disaster or the mistaken notion that the sun and true that the Earth's crust does a 180-degree every one million years. Earth becoming aligned with the black hole in rotation around the core in a matter of days the galactic center allows some kind of massive if not hours? (Continued on Page 5) gravitational pull on Earth. A: A reversal in the rotation of Earth is The first strike against this theory is that impossible. There are slow movements of the The ‘X’ Zone New Year’s Eve Special the solstice itself does not correlate to any continents (for example Antarctica was near the 9 pm Dec 31 2012 - 1 am Jan 1 2013 movements of the stars or anything in the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but www.xzoneradiotv.com