2012 The Mayan Calendar History

With humanity coming up fast on 2012, publishers are helping readers gear up and count down to this mysterious — some even call it apocalyptic — date that ancient Mayan societies were anticipating thousands of years ago.

Since November, at least three new books on 2012 have arrived in mainstream bookstores. A fourth is due this fall. Each arrives in the wake of the 2006 success of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, which has been selling thousands of copies a month since its release in May and counts more than 40,000 in print. The books also build on popular interest in the Maya, fueled in part by Mel Gibson's December 2006 film about Mayan civilization, Apocalpyto.

Authors disagree about what humankind should expect on Dec. 21, 2012, when the Maya's "Long Count" calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era.

Journalist Lawrence Joseph forecasts widespread catastrophe in Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End. Spiritual healer Andrew Smith predicts a restoration of a "true balance between Divine Feminine and Masculine" in The Revolution of 2012: Vol. 1, The Preparation. In 2012, Daniel Pinchbeck anticipates a "change in the nature of consciousness," assisted by indigenous insights and psychedelic drug use.

The buildup to 2012 echoes excitement and fear expressed on the eve of the new millennium, popularly known as Y2K, though on a smaller scale, says Lynn Garrett, senior religion editor at Publishers Weekly. She says publishers seem to be courting readers who believe humanity is creating its own ecological disasters and desperately needs ancient indigenous wisdom.

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"The convergence I see here is the apocalyptic expectations, if you will, along with the fact that the environment is in the front of many people's minds these days," Garrett says. "Part of the appeal of these earth religions is that notion that we need to reconnect with the Earth in order to save ourselves."

But scholars are bristling at attempts to link the ancient Maya with trends in contemporary spirituality. Maya civilization, known for advanced writing, mathematics and astronomy, flourished for centuries in Mesoamerica, especially between A.D. 300 and 900. Its Long Count calendar, which was discontinued under Spanish colonization, tracks more than 5,000 years, then resets at year zero.

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."

Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," Joseph writes.

But scholars doubt the ancient Maya extrapolated great meaning from anticipating the alignment — if they were even aware of what the configuration would be.

Astronomers generally agree that "it would be impossible the Maya themselves would have known that," says Susan Milbrath, a Maya archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. What's more, she says, "we have no record or knowledge that they would think the world would come to an end at that point."

University of Florida anthropologist Susan Gillespie says the 2012 phenomenon comes "from media and from other people making use of the Maya past to fulfill agendas that are really their own."

NASA Doomsday 2012 Answers

1. What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in December 2012?

The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. Zecharia Sitchin, who writes fiction about the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer, claimed in several books (e.g., The Twelfth Planet, published in 1976) that he has found and translated Sumerian documents that identify the planet Nibiru, orbiting the Sun every 3600 years. These Sumerian fables include stories of “ancient astronauts” visiting Earth from a civilization of aliens called the Anunnaki. Then Nancy Lieder, a self-declared psychic who claims she is channeling aliens, wrote on her website Zetatalk that the inhabitants of a fictional planet around the star Zeta Reticuli warned her that the Earth was in danger from Planet X or Nibiru. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Only recently have these two fables been linked to the end of the Mayan long-count at the winter solstice in 2012 – hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.

2. The Sumerians were the first great civilization, and they made many accurate astronomical predictions, including the existence of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. So why should we not believe their predictions about Nibiru?

Nibiru is a name in Babylonian astrology sometimes associated with the god Marduk. Nibiru appears as a minor character in the Babylonian creation poem Enuma Elish as recorded in the library of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-627 BCE). Sumer flourished much earlier, from about the 23rd century to the 17th century BCE. The claims that Nibiru is a planet and was known to the Sumerians are contradicted by scholars who (unlike Zecharia Sitchin) study and translate the written records of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumer was indeed a great civilization, important for the development of agriculture, water management, urban life, and especially writing. However, they left very few records dealing with astronomy. Certainly they did not know about the existence of Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. They also had no understanding that the planets orbited the Sun, an idea that first developed in ancient Greece two millennia after the end of Sumer. Claims that Sumerians had a sophisticated astronomy, or that they even had a god named Nibiru, are the product of Sitchin’s imagination.

3. How can you deny the existence of Nibiru when NASA discovered it in 1983 and the story appeared in leading newspapers? At that time you called it Planet X, and later it was named Xena or Eris.

IRAS (the NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite, which carried out a sky survey for 10 months in 1983) discovered many infrared sources, but none of them was Nibiru or Planet X or any other objects in the outer solar system. There is a good discussion from Caltech to be found at (spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/no_tenth_planet_yet.html). Briefly, IRAS cataloged 350,000 infrared sources, and initially many of these sources were unidentified (which was the point, of course, of making such a survey). All of these observations have been followed up by subsequent studies with more powerful instruments both on the ground and in space. The rumor about a “tenth planet” erupted in 1984 after a scientific paper was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters titled “Unidentified point sources in the IRAS minisurvey”, which discussed several infrared sources with “no counterparts”. But these “mystery objects” were subsequently found to be distant galaxies (except one, which was a wisp of “infrared cirrus”), as published in 1987. No IRAS source has ever turned out to be a planet. A good discussion of this whole issue is to be found on Phil Plait’s website (www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/science.html#iras). The bottom line is that Nibiru is a myth, with no basis in fact. To an astronomer, persistent claims about a planet that is “nearby” but “invisible” are just plain silly.

4. Maybe we should be asking about Planet X or Eris, not Nibiru. Why does NASA keep secret the orbit of Eris?

“Planet X” is an oxymoron when applied to a real object. The term has been used by astronomers over the past century for a possible or suspected object. Once the object is found, it is given a real name, as was done with Pluto and Eris, both of which were at some time referred to as Planet X. If a new object turns out to be not real, or not a planet, then you won’t hear about it again. If it is real, it is not called Planet X.

Eris is one of several dwarf planets recently found by astronomers in the outer solar system, all of them on normal orbits that will never bring them near Earth. Like Pluto, Eris is smaller than our Moon. It is very far away, and its orbit never brings it closer than about 4 billion miles. There is no secret about Eris and its orbit, as you can easily verify by googling it or looking it up in Wikipedia.

5. Do you deny that NASA built a South Pole Telescope (SPT) to track Nibiru? Why else would they build a telescope at the South Pole?

There is a telescope at the South Pole, but it was not built by NASA and not used to study Nibiru. The South Pole Telescope was supported by the National Science Foundation, and it is a radio telescope, not an optical instrument. It cannot take images or photos. You can look it up on Wikipedia. The Antarctic is a great place for astronomical infrared and short-wave-radio observations, and it also has the advantage that objects can be observed continuously without the interference of the day-night cycle.

I should add that it is impossible to imagine a geometry in which an object can be seen only from the South Pole. Even if it were due south of the Earth, it could be seen from the entire southern hemisphere.

6. There are many photos and videos of Nibiru on the Internet. Isn’t that proof that it exists?

The great majority of the photos and videos on the Internet are of some feature near the Sun (apparently supporting the claim that Nibiru has been hiding behind the Sun for the past several years.) These are actually false images of the Sun caused by internal reflections in the lens, often called lens flare. You can identify them easily by the fact that they appear diametrically opposite the real solar image, as if reflected across the center of the image. This is especially obvious in videos, where as the camera moves, the false image dances about always exactly opposite the real image. Similar lens flare is a source of many UFO photos taken at night with strong light sources such as streetlights in the frame. I am surprised that people don’t recognize this common photo artifact. I am also amazed that these photos showing something nearly as large and bright as the Sun (a “second sun”) are accepted together with claims made on some of the same websites that Nibiru is too faint to be seen or photographed except with large telescopes.

One widely reported telescopic photo (www.greatdreams.com/nibiru-possible.jpg) shows two views of an expanding gas cloud far beyond the solar system, which is not moving; you can see this from the fact that the stars are the same in both pictures. A sharp-eyed reader of this website identified these photos as a gas shell around the star V838 Mon. Wikipedia has a nice write-up and a beautiful photo of it from Hubble. Another high school student was initially impressed by posted images of a red blob that were said to be of Nibiru. Then he worked out in his Photoshop class how to make just such pictures starting from scratch.
One video posted in summer 2008 on Youtube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKtkWIx00A) shows a guy standing in his kitchen claiming that one of the objects discovered by a NASA x-ray telescope is Nibiru. What is his evidence? That since this false-color x-ray image released by NASA is blue, this must really be a nearby planet with an ocean. This would be hilarious if it were not used to frighten people.

7. Can you explain the fact that the area at (5h 53m 27s, -6 10’ 58”) has been blackened out in Google Sky and Microsoft Telescope? People suggest that these have been blackened out because those are the co-ordinates where Nibiru is located at present.

Several people have asked me about this blank rectangle in Orion in Google Sky, which is a presentation of images from the Sloan Digital Survey. This can’t be a “hiding place” for Nibiru, since it is a part of the sky that could be seen from almost everywhere on the Earth in the winter of 2007-08 when much of the talk about Nibiru began. That would contradict the claims that Nibiru was hiding behind the Sun or that it could be seen only from the southern hemisphere. But I too was curious about this blank rectangle, so I asked a friend who is a senior scientist at Google. He replied that he “found out that the missing data is due to a processing error in the image stitching program we use to display the Sloan survey images. The team assures me that in the next run through, this will be fixed!”

8. If the government knew about Nibiru, wouldn’t they keep it a secret to avoid panic? Isn’t it the government’s job to keep the population at ease?

There are many objectives of government, but they do not include keeping the population at ease. My experience is that sometimes parts of the government do just the opposite, as in the frequent references to various terrorist threats or warnings about driving accidents on long holiday weekends, which are no more dangerous than any other time. There is a long history of associating bad things with political opponents (older readers will remember the “missile gap” in the 1960 election, younger ones will note the many current references to who is or is not keeping the U.S. safe from terrorists). Further, social scientists have pointed out that many of our concepts of public panic are the product of Hollywood, while in the real world people have a good record of helping each other in a time of danger. I think everyone also recognizes that keeping bad news secret usually backfires, making the issue even worse when the facts finally come out. And in the case of Nibiru, these facts would come out very soon indeed.

Even if they wanted to, the government could not keep Nibiru a secret. If it were real, it would be tracked by thousands of astronomers, amateurs as well a professional. These astronomers are spread all over the world. I know the astronomy community, and these scientists would not keep a secret even if ordered to. You just can’t hide a planet on its way to the inner solar system!

9. Why does the Mayan calendar say the world will end in 2012? I have heard that they have been pretty accurate in the past with other planetary predictions. How can you be sure you know more than they did?

Calendars exist for keeping track of the passage of time, not for predicting the future. The Mayan astronomers were clever, and they developed a very complex calendar. Ancient calendars are interesting to historians, but of they cannot match the ability we have today to keep track of time, or the precision of the calendars currently in use. The main point, however, is that calendars, whether contemporary or ancient, cannot predict the future of our planet or warn of things to happen on a specific date such as 2012.

I note that my desk calendar ends much sooner, on December 31 2009, but I do not interpret this as a prediction of Armageddon. It is just the beginning of a new year.

10. What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours? Does this have something to do to do with our solar system dipping beneath the galactic equator?

A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. It has never happened and never will. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway. But they falsely claim that a magnetic reversal is coming soon (in 2012) and that this is the same as, or will trigger, a reversal of rotational poles. The bottom line is: (a) Rotation direction and magnetic polarity are not related. (b) There is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon, or to anticipate any bad effects on life when it does eventually happen. © A sudden shift in rotational pole with disastrous consequences is impossible. Also, none of this has anything to do with the galactic equator or any of the other nonsense about alignments that appears on many of the conspiracy theory websites.

11. When most of the planets align in 2012 and planet Earth is in the center of the Milky Way, what will the effects of this be on planet Earth? Could it cause a pole shift, and if so what could we expect?

There is no planet alignment in 2012 or any other time in the next several decades. As to the Earth being in the center of the Milky Way, I don’t know what this phrase means. If you are referring to the Milky Way Galaxy, we are rather far toward the edge of this spiral galaxy, some 30,000 light years from the center. We circle the galactic center in a period of 225-250 million years, always keeping approximately the same distance. Concerning a pole shift, I also don’t know what this means. If it means some sudden change in the position of the pole (that is, the rotation axis of the Earth), then that is impossible, as noted in the answer to Question 10. What many websites do discuss is the alignment of the Earth and Sun with the center of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius. This happens every December, with no bad consequences, and there is no reason to expect 2012 to be different from any other year.

12. When the sun and the Earth line up on the galactic plane at the same time with the black whole being in the center couldn’t that cause something to happen, due to the fact that the black hole has such a strong gravitational pull.

There is a giant black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and like any concentration of mass it exerts gravitational force on the rest of the Galaxy. However, the galactic center is very far away, approximately 30,000 light years, so it has negligible effects on the solar system or the Earth. There are no special forces from the galactic plane or the galactic center. The only important force that acts on the Earth is the gravitation of the Sun and Moon. As far as the influence of the galactic plane, there is nothing special about this location. The last time the Earth was in the galactic plane was several million years ago. Claims that we are about to cross the galactic plane are untrue.

13. I am scared about the fact that the Earth will enter the Dark Rift in the Milky Way. What will this do? Will the Earth be swallowed up?

The “dark rift” is a popular name for the broad and diffuse dust clouds in the
inner arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, which block our view of the galactic
center. The entire “galactic alignment” scare is pretty crazy. Late in
December the Sun is always approximately in the direction of the center of
the Galaxy as seen from the Earth, but so what? Apparently the con-men who are trying to scare you have decided to use these meaningless phrases about “alignments” and the “dark rift” and “photon belt” precisely because they are not understood by the public. It is too bad, but there is no law against lying on the Internet or anywhere else except in a court of law. As far as the safety of the Earth is concerned, the important threats are from global warming and loss of biological diversity, and perhaps someday from collision with an asteroid or comet, not the pseudoscientific claims about 2012.

14. I have heard that the Earth’s magnetic field will flip in 2012 just when the strongest level of solar storms in history is predicted to take place. Will this kill us or destroy our civilization?

Near solar maximum (which happens every 11 years approximately), there are many more solar flares and coronal mass ejections than near solar minimum. Flares and mass ejections are no danger for humans or other life on Earth. They could endanger astronauts in deep space or on the Moon, and this is something that NASA must learn to deal with, but it is not a problem for you or me. Large outbursts can interrupt radio transmission, cause bright displays of the aurora (Northern and Southern Lights), and damage the electronics of some satellites in space. Today many satellites are designed to deal with this possibility, for example by switching off some of their more delicate circuits and going into a “safe” mode for a few hours. In extreme cases solar activity can also disrupt electrical transmissions on the ground, possibly leading to electrical blackouts, but this is rare.

The last solar maximum occurred in 2001, so the next one was predicted for around 2012, 11 years later. However, the most recent solar minimum was unusual, with a period of a couple of years with almost no sunspots or other indications of solar activity, so scientists now guess that the next maximum will be delayed, perhaps to 2013. However, the details of the solar cycle remain basically unpredictable.

You are correct that the Earth’s magnetic field protects us by creating a large region in space, called the Earth’s magnetosphere, within which most of the material ejected from the Sun is captured or deflected, but there is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon. These magnetic reversals happen only once in 400,000 years on average.

15. I am confused about a report on the Fox News website that in 2012 a “Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months”. They referred to a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was commissioned and paid for by NASA. If nothing is going to happen as a result of the event in 2012, why would NASA allow such nonsense to be reported?

NASA is pleased with the National Research Council report on heliophysics. As you note, this report includes a worst-case analysis of what could happen today if there were a repetition of the biggest solar storm ever recorded (in 1859). The problem is the way such information can be used out of context. There is no reason to expect such a large solar storm in the near future, certainly not in 2012 specifically. Your reference to “the event in 2012” illustrates this problem. There is no prediction of an “event in 2012”. We don’t even know if the next solar maximum will take place in that year. The whole 2012 disaster scenario is a hoax, fueled by ads for the Hollywood science-fiction disaster film “2012”. I can only hope that most people are able to distinguish Hollywood film plots from reality.

16. All my school friends are telling me that we are all going to die in the year 2012 due to a meteor hitting earth. Is this true?

Your friends are wrong. The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website (neo.jpl.nasa.gov), so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.

17. If Nibiru is a hoax, why doesn’t NASA issue a denial? How can you permit these stores to circulate and frighten people? Why doesn’t the U.S. government do something about it!

If you go to the NASA home page, nasa.gov, you will see many stories that expose the Nibiru-2012 hoax. Try searching nasa.com under “Nibiru” or “2012”. There is not much more that NASA can do. These hoaxes have nothing to do with NASA and are not based on NASA data, so we as an agency are not directly involved. But scientists, both within NASA and outside, recognize that this hoax with its effort to frighten people is a distraction from more important science concerns, such as global warming and loss of biological diversity. We live in a country where there is freedom of speech, and that includes freedom to lie. You should be glad there are no censors. But if you will just use common sense I am sure you can recognize the lies. As we approach 2012, the lies will be come even more obvious.

18. Can you prove to me that Nibiru is a hoax? There are so many reports that something terrible will happen in 2012. I need proof because the government and NASA are keeping so much from us.

It is not logical to ask for proof that the 2012 doomsday is a hoax. Your questions should be to the doomsday advocates to prove that what they are saying is true, not to NASA to prove it is false. If someone claimed on the Internet that there were 50-foot tall purple elephants walking through Cleveland, would anyone expect NASA to prove this wrong? The burden of proof falls on those who make wild claims. Remember the often-quoted comment from Carl Sagan that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary levels of evidence if they are to be believed.

However, I think that astronomers have reached the point where we can offer extremely strong arguments that Nibiru does not exist. A large planet (or a brown dwarf) in our solar system would have been known to astronomers for many years, both indirectly from its gravitational perturbations on other objects and by direct detection in the infrared. The NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) carried out the first all-sky survey in 1983, and several subsequent surveys would also have seen Nibiru if it were there. Further, if a large mass passed through the inner solar system every 3600 years, we would see its disruptive effects on the orbits of the inner planets, and we don’t.

You don’t need to take my word for it. Just use common sense. Have you seen Nibiru? In 2008 many websites said it would be visible to the naked eye in spring 2009. If a large planet or brown dwarf were headed for the inner solar system in 2012, it would already be tracked by hundreds of thousands of astronomers, professional and amateur, all over the world. Do you know any amateur astronomers who are watching it? Have you seen any photos or discussion of it in the big popular astronomy magazines like Sky & Telescope? Just think about it. No one could hide Nibiru if it existed.

19. What about the scary ads for the new film 2012? They tell us to look at these Internet sites to verify the doomsday threat.

The pseudoscientific claims about Nibiru and a doomsday in 2012, together with distrust of the government, are being amplified by publicity for the new film from Columbia Pictures titled 2012, to be released in November 2009. The film’s trailer, appearing in theaters and on their website , shows a tidal wave breaking over the Himalayas, with only the following words: “How would the governments of our planet prepare 6 billion people for the end of the world? [long pause] They wouldn’t. [long pause] Find out the Truth. Google search 2012”.

The film publicity includes creation of a faux scientific website (www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/) for “The Institute for Human Continuity”, which is entirely fictitious. According to this website, the IHC is dedicated to scientific research and public preparedness. Its mission is the survival of mankind. The website explains that the Institute was founded 1978 by international leaders of government, business, and science. They say that in 2004, IHC scientists confirmed with 94% certainty that the world would be destroyed in 2012. This website encourages people to register for a lottery to select those who will be saved; a colleague submitted the name of her cat, which was accepted. I learned from Wikipedia that creating this sort of fake website is a new advertising technique called “Viral Marketing”, by analogy with computer viruses.

20. Is it possible that the influx of questions you describe is part of some kind of campaign for a book or movie, in the hopes that the volume of denials is taken as more “evidence” that there is a conspiracy?

I ask myself the same questions every day, as the volume of mail I receive about Nibiru (along with various alignments and pole shifts) keeps increasing — now more than 20 per week. Clearly there is money to be made from people’s fear about an approaching doomsday. Some of this hype is apparently advertising for the science fiction disaster movie 2012 (see Question 19). Many websites are selling books and tapes about Nibiru or even “survival kits”. It is all very sad, that with so many real issues (such as global warming and financial collapse) people are being taken in by these lies. In the final chapter of a new astronomy book (The Hunt for Planet X) by Govert Shilling, he writes: “There is plenty to do for the debunkers – the archaeologists and astronomers who take a long and skeptical look at the tidal wave of Nibiru nonsense and explain with scientific precision what is wrong with this cosmic fairy-tale. They will have their work cut out in the next few years. And on December 22, 2012 there will be a new pseudoscientific cock-and-bull story doing the rounds and the whole circus will start all over again. Because no matter how many new celestial bodies are found in our solar system, there will always be a need for a mysterious Planet X.”

New Age Photon Belt

I could never connect with this theory, between what people believe in the quest for the definitive answer, or the Doomsday feeling they had! Think of all the things that led you to believe, or you believed in - in the past few years - if the answer was always so easy. The reality is a hologram, from which you are a projection, practical experience.

The photon belt is a belief largely in connection with some parts of the New Age movement, a band of photons will collide with the earth and cause massive loss of electrical appliances.

There are a number of convictions in connection with the belt but they have some common elements. The first is that the Earth orbits the Pleiades cluster. This is not the case. The second is that a belt of photons also orbits of the cluster. Such a belt has been identified (and it is difficult to see how within the current understanding of the universe). The third is that the Earth will collide with this belt. A number of forecasts were considered to be the date of this conflict, yet were not correct.

The first appearance of the idea apparently was in an Australian UFO Magazine in 1981. He gained popularity after it was reprinted in the Australian Nexus magazine in February 1991.

Somewhere in the universe, there must be a star center (s) that everything revolves around. What will matter in this center, photon beams are emitted from the top and bottom poles.

Although our planet is a distance from the sun and the mid-band photons, which surrounds it, we will ultimately about the band. Some people say this is the end of the world, but this planet has the belt before. Electrons flow is not the same as the electronic devices on the planet will fail. Spiritually it is a transition point, but it is only a temporary window.

The Photon Belt - 2012

The photon belt is reportedly a band of intense photon light that is near Earth at this time. A photon is a quantum of light, or the smallest possible packet of light at a given wavelength. It is Emitted by an atom during a transition from one energy state to another. Photons - also called Quantum Light minute energy packet of electromagnetic radiation. The concept Originated (1905) in Einstein's explanation of the photo electric effect, in which he proposed the existence of discrete energy packets during the transmission of light. Earlier (1900), the German Physicist Max Planck had prepared the way for the concept by explaining that heat radiation is absorbed in Emitted and distinct units, or quanta. The concept came into general use after the U.S. Physicist Arthur H. Compton demonstrated (1923) the corpuscular nature of X-rays. The term photon (from Greek phos, photos, "light"), however, was not used until 1926. The energy of a photon depends on frequency radiation, there are photons of all energies from high-energy gamma-and X-rays, visible light through, to low-energy infrared and radio waves. All photons travel at the speed of light. Considered among the subatomic particles, photons are boson, having no electric charge or rest mass and one unit of spin, they are field particles that are thought to be the carriers of the electromagnetic field. As fundamental particles, photons travel at the speed of light and have mass and momentum dependent on their frequencies. By classical reasoning a photon would have the apparent dualistic property of being either a particle or a wave disturbance. That is, such phenomena as interference and diffraction require an interpretation in terms of the wave characteristics of photons, but such phenomena as the Photoelectric Effect require an interpretation in terms of the particle nature of the photon. Quantum mechanics is able to resolve this dilemma by Assigning Probabilistic characteristics to the motions of atoms and photons. The energy associated with an individual photon is quite minute. For instance, a photon in the visible spectrum would contain at energy of approximately 4 X (10 to the power of -19) joules. Thus, a perfectly efficient 100-watt light bulb would emit approximately 2.5 X (10 to the power of 20) photons per second. Light is electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range extending from about 0.4 micron to about 0.7 micron, or, perhaps more properly, the visual response to electromagnetic radiation in this range. By extension, the term is frequently applied to adjacent wavelength ranges that the eye can not detect: Ultarviolet light, infrared light, and black light. In addition to wavelength, frequency, in hertz, and wavenumber in inverse units of length, are also used to specify and Designate the character and quality of the radiation. Associated with wavelength or frequency is the visual response of Color. The term monochromatic is applied to the idealized situation in which the light in a beam is all of one wavelength. Light is characterized not only by wavelength, essentially a temporal quality, but also by state and degree of polarization, a geometric or directional quality, and by intensity, essentially a physical quality. The visual intensity is a response to brightness. In the human visual system, at least, there is no counterpart response, to the state and degree of polarization, but ample evidence exists that certain arthropods - bees in particular - are sensitive to the state of polarization of sky light. There is some Speculation that certain Migrating birds may also respond to this quality of light. Light is further characterized by its degree of coherence. Coherence, closely related to the degree of polarization and to the degree of monochromaticity, refers to the ability of a beam of light to interferewith itself. Coherence is also in interferometric property of light. By the use of a Michelson interferometer, most light sources can be made to produce interference Fringes. These are clear when the length of the two arms of the interferometer are equal. As one arm is lengthened, however, the contrast of the Fringe is seen to decrease until they are no longer visible. Unfiltered light from Incandescent source wants to produce barely Fringes under any circumstances. Light from a mercury arc lamp to produce Fringes over a range of one or two centimeters. On the other hand, light from a continuous-wave laser gas has produced Fringes at a distance of over 100 meters. Therefore, light can be characterized by its degree of coherence or coherence length. Light is a transport of energy. It can be regarded both as a particulate flow and as a wave phenomenon. These two apparently diametrically opposed views have been brought together into a theory that combines the best features of each. The particulate unit is the photon, which has associated with it a central wavelength or frequency that determines (or is determined by) the amount of energy it contains. In a so-called monochromatic beam, the photons are all of the same energy and therefore have the same frequency. They can be made to Interfer, which indicates a high degree of coherence as well as a more or less uniform state of polarization. If the distribution of energy in the photons is more random, however, the beam will be less coherent and will have a lower degree of polarization. It is also convenient to think of light as propagating as Wavefront. These waves, like the crest of an ocean wave, are surfaces on which the phase relationship is constant. Unlike in ocean wave, a wavefront or surface of constant phase is unobservable and undetectable. Light may be considered as energy being transported in a train of Wavefront. The direction of propagation (except for anisotropic media) is in a direction perpendicular to the wavefront. Rays can be Conceived as Trajectories of photons. Light Production Light - like any other electromagnetic radiation, results from either of accelerating electric charge or a nuclear fusion or fission reaction. In nuclear reactions, a photon is created in the same manner as other elemental partial products of the reaction. With the exception of sunlight and starlight, however, light is usually the result of changes in the electronic structure of atoms and molecules as they Recently readmit and energy. The Incandescent electric light has as its light source the heat that results from the ohmic resistance of the filament to the electric current. A red-hot poker Recently heat directly from the fire resulting from the liberation of chemical energy. As the material in the filament or poker heats up, the atoms and molecules gain kinetic energy, which is realized by an increase in the number of collisions among the particles. Boiling off of some of the material is one mechanism that can be used to maintain equilibrium in temperature. Another mechanism is for the Electrons associated with the various atoms in the metal to move to higher energy levels. When they drop back to lower energy levels they emit a photon, keeping the temperature of the material more or less constant despite the fact that energy is continually supplied. The excess energy is as Emitted light. Another type of light source is energized plasma such as a gas flame or in a discharge tube such as a neon bulb. Although light is produced by a mechanism similar to thermal emission, the atoms are in a gaseous phase, and less random. The energy levels reached by the Electrons depend more on the electronic structure of atoms themselves, and therefore the Emitted photons tend to be clustered around specific wavelengths. The spectrum produced by such a source is not at all continuous but consists of lines or bands that are characteristic of the atoms or molecules in the gas. Highly monochromatic light can be obtained from this type of source, particularly if the light is filtered. The light has a much longer coherence length but is generally unpolarized. Another type of source is the laser. Two principles are involved in laser surgery. First, the lasing material is composed of atoms, or mixtures of atoms, that have a peculiar energy level structure. Recently energy as they, their Electrons move up to higher energy levels, tending to accumulate at certain metastable levels. This is called population inversion. There they remain until stimulated by a photon of the proper frequency. Then the Electrons drop to a lower energy level, emitting a photon of the same frequency and traveling in the same direction as the incident, stimulating photon. Because a single photon may stimulates the release of a large number of additional photons, the total number of photons is increased, thus increasing the intensity of the light within the medium. The process is referred to as gain. The second principle is the geometry of the laser itself. The laser can be regarded as a hollow tube, much like an organ pipe, which is tuned to the wavelength of the Emitted photons. The process can be visualized as a wavefront being reflected back and forth between the two ends of the laser, picking up more photons with each reflection. The portion of the light that is permitted to escape from the cavity is highly monochromatic, with a long coherence length. In some circumstances the laser output is highly Polarized. The historical development of a theory of light, at least from the 17th century on, involved two apparently contradictory descriptions. One concept was the corpuscular theory, which envisioned light as a stream, or flow of small particles. René Descartes modified this concept. He viewed as a light more pressure than as a flow - not as motion but as a tendency to motion. And since light was not motion it was not limited by a finite velocity. In other words, a beam of light required no time of transit. Pierre Fermat held a different view. He believed not only that light propagated at a finite velocity, but also that its particles or rays described Trajectories. Christiaan Huygens on the other hand, what a believer that light was a wave phenomenon. Light propagated at a finite velocity in the form of a moving disturbance, just as a water wave moves as a ripple on a smooth pond. As a ray of light passes across a surface from one medium to another (for example, from air to glass), its direction is changed - a phenomenon known as Refraction. The Law of Refraction, first discovered empirically by Willebrord Snell, then subsequently formally derived by Descartes and Fermat, states that sin r = K sin i, where i is called the angle of incidence, the angle between the incident ray and the normal (perpendicular ) To the refracting surface. The angle of Refraction, r, is the angle between the refracted ray and the surface normal. Fermat and Descartes agreed on the form of Refraction law, but they disagreed violently on the meaning of the constant K. K Fermat saw as being proportional to the reciprocal of the velocity of propagation. Descartes, even though he believed that the velocity of propagation which is infinite, concluded, on a different level of logic, that what K proportional to a velocity. The distinction is important because whether light speeds up or slows down as it passes into a dense medium determines the meaning of K. Two opposing points of view evolved. Descartes and Fermat were both proponents of a corpuscular theory; Huygens believed in a wave theory. He also obtained a proof of the Refraction law in terms of the existence of Wavefront, a construction now called Huygens's principle. If light is a wave phenomenon, then a medium is required. Sound waves travel through the air but not through a vacuum; ripples require a Watery medium. At first it was thought that air would be the medium that would support the propagation of light. The simple experiment of light shining through an evacuated jar, however, showed clearly that this theory was not correct. Theorist chose to hypothesize the existence of a medium called the ether. Experimental evidence to support the wave theory of light was particularly strong. Diffraction, the ability of light to bend around a sharp edge, certainly gave credence to the idea that light was a form of wave motion. Further support came with the discovery of polarization, which indicated that the undulation of a light wave were transverse to the direction of propagation and were not longitudinal, as were sound and water waves. Thus, if light was to be a wave phenomenon, the ether was required, and if so, then certain effects should be observed when a massive body passed through the ether. To detect such effects, telescope tubes were filled with water to determine the effect on starlight. No effect was observed. Experiments to detect ether to "drag" thus failed. On the other hand, James Bradley discovered stellar aberration in 1729 when he found that he had to aim his telescope a little in the direction of the Earth's motion ahead of the theoretical position of a star. This effect could be compared to a person in a Rainstorm Tilting his umbrella a little in front of him as he walks into the rain. Bradley's discovery supported a corpuscular theory, or at least it did not support the idea of an ether drag. But, it was postulated, if ether exists, then another observable phenomenon, ether 'drift' must therefore exist. If both the Earth and light are moving through the ether, then the velocity of light observed on the Earth would depend on the direction of observation. The ether was regarded as stationary, the Earth and other planets, the Sun and the stars, and light moved through it. By measuring the apparent velocity of light in various directions, one could determine the absolute velocity and direction of motion of the Earth. In the late 19th century AA Michelson and EW Morley (1838-1923) attempted to measure the absolute motion of the Earth through the ether. No. ether drift was observed. The conclusion was the Inconceivable notion that the velocity of light was constant and independent of the motion of the observer. This paradox led to Einstein's special theory of relativity, a cosmo logical theory of major significance.
The photon belt is reportedly a band of intense photon of light, the Near Earth at this time.

A photon is a quantum of light, or the smallest possible package of light at a particular wavelength. It is emitted from an atom in a transition from one energy state to another.

Photons - also known as Quantum Light Energy-minute package of Electromagnetic Radiation. The concept was born (1905) in Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect, in which he suggested the existence of discrete packets of energy during the transmission of light. Earlier (1900), the German physicist Max Planck had prepared the way for the concept to explain that the thermal radiation emitted and absorbed in different units, or Quanta.

The concept came into general use after the U.S. physicist Arthur H. Compton demonstrated (1923) the corpuscular kind of X-rays. The concept of photons (from the Greek Phos, photos, "light"), but was not used until 1926. The energy of a photon depends on the radiation spectrum, there are all the photons from high-energy gamma and X-rays, visible light through to the energy-infrared and radio waves. All photons travel at the speed of light. As the subatomic particles, photons are bosons, with no electrical charge or residual mass and spin of a device, they are field particles, which, attended by the makers of the electromagnetic field.

How fundamental particles, photons travel at the speed of light and have mass and momentum depends on its frequency. With the classic argument of a photon could have the apparent two-tier ownership for either a particle or a wave of disturbances. That means that phenomena such as diffraction and interference require an interpretation in terms of the wave characteristics of photons, but such phenomena as the photoelectric effect requiring an interpretation in terms of the particle nature of the photon. Quantum mechanics is able to solve this dilemma by probabilistic characteristics to the movements of atoms and photons.

The energy associated with a single photon is quite minute. For example, a photon in the visible spectrum would be an energy of about 4 X (10 to the power of -19) joule. Thus a perfectly efficient 100-watt light bulb would emit about 2.5 X (10 to the power of 20) photons per second.

Light is electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range extending from about 0.4 micrometers to about 0.7 micrometers, or, perhaps better, the visual response to the electromagnetic radiation in this area. By extension, the term is often bordering on the wavelength range that the eye can not detect: Ultarviolet light, infrared light, light and black. In addition to the wavelength, frequency, in hertz, and wave range, in inverse units of length, are also used to designate and the character and quality of radiation. In connection with the wavelength or frequency is the visual response of color. The term monochromatic is the idealized situation where the light into a beam is all a wavelength.

Light is characterized not only by the wavelength, which is essentially a temporal quality, but also by state and degree of polarization, a geometric or directional quality, and the intensity, which is essentially a physical quality. The visual response to the intensity of brightness. In the human visual system, at least there is no answer counterpart, the State and the degree of polarization, but there is sufficient evidence that certain arthropods - bees in particular - are sensitive to the state of polarization of the sky light. There is some speculation that some migratory birds May also a response to this quality of light.

Light is further characterized by its degree of coherence. Coherence, in close connection with the degree of polarization and the degree of monochromaticity, refers to the ability of a light beam to interferewith itself. Coherence interferometry is therefore a property of light. By using a Michelson interferometer, most light sources can be to interference fringes. This is clearest when the length of the two arms of the interferometer are equal.

As an arm is extended, however, the contrast of the fringes is seen to decrease until they are no longer visible. Unfiltered light from a single source is hardly produce fringes under any circumstances. Light from a mercury arc lamp is the edge over a range of one or two centimeters. On the other hand, light from a continuous wave laser-gas has the edge at a distance of over 100 meters. Therefore, light can be characterized by its degree of coherence or consistency in length.

Light is a transport of energy. It can be regarded both as a particle flow and as a wave phenomenon. These two apparently diametrically opposed views were together in a theory that combines the best features of each. The particulate unit is the photon, in connection with a central frequency or wavelength determined that (or through) the amount of energy it contains. In a so-called Black-White-beam, the photons are all the same energy and therefore have the same frequency. It can disturb, which indicates a high degree of coherence and a more or less uniform state of polarization. If the distribution of energy in the photons is more coincidental, but the beam is less coherent and have a lower degree of polarization.

It is also convenient to think of light as propagating a wavefront. These waves, like the hood of an ocean wave, are areas where the phase relationship is stable. Unlike an ocean wave, a wavefront or surface constant and unobservable phase is not detectable. Light May as energy being transported in a train from Wavefront. The direction of propagation (with the exception of anisotropic media) is in a direction perpendicular to the wave front. Radiation can be used as trajectories of the photons.

LightLight Production - like any other electromagnetic radiation, which results from either an accelerating electric charge or a fusion or fission reaction. In the context of nuclear reactions, a photon is in the same manner as the other elementary partly products of the reaction. With the exception of sunlight and Starlight However, in light of the rule is the result of changes in the electronic structure of atoms and molecules, as they absorb energy.

The incandescent electric light, as the heat source, resulting from the ohmic resistance of the filament to electricity. A red-hot poker directly absorbs heat from the fire resulting from the liberation of chemical energy. Since the material in the filament or poker heats up, the atoms and molecules gain kinetic energy generated by an increase in the number of collisions between particles. Boiling from some of the material is a mechanism that can be used to balance temperature. Another mechanism is for the electrons in connection with the various atoms in the metal to a higher energy levels. If they drop back to lower energy levels they emit a photon, keep the temperature of the material more or less constant, despite the fact that energy prices are constantly delivered. The excess energy is emitted as light.

Another type of light source is activated plasma as a gas flame or in a discharge tube like a neon lamp. Although light is through a mechanism similar thermal emission, which are atoms in a gaseous phase, and less random. The energy levels achieved by the electrons depend more on the electronic structure of atoms themselves, and therefore the emitted photons are usually around specific wavelengths.

The spectrum from such a source is not at all continuous but consists of lines or bands that are characteristic of the atoms or molecules in the gas. Very black-and-white light can take this kind of source, particularly if the light filtered. The light has a much longer coherence length, but is usually unpolarized.

Another kind of source is the LASER. Two principles are in laser surgery. First, the laser material consists of atoms, or mixtures of atoms, which have a special energy structure. As they absorb energy, its electrons move to higher energy levels, the tendency to certain metastable levels. This is called population inversion.

There they remain until stimulated by a photon of the proper frequency. Then the electrons drop to a lower energy level, emitting a photon of the same frequency and traveling in the same direction as the event photon excitation. Since a single photon May stimulate the release of a large number of additional photons, the total number of photons increased, thus increasing the intensity of light in the media. The process is known as profit.

The second principle is the geometry of the laser itself. The laser can be regarded as a hollow tube, like a pipe organ, which voted at a wavelength of the emitted photons. The process can be visualized as a wave front is also back and forth between the two ends of the laser, picking more photons with each reflection. The proportion of light is allowed to escape from the cavity is monochromatic, with a long coherence length. In some cases, the laser power is highly polarized.

The historical development of a theory of light, at least from the 17th Century, the two seemingly contradictory descriptions. A concept was the corpuscular theory, the planned light as a stream or flow of small particles.

René Descartes this concept changed. He viewed more than a light pressure than flow - not as a movement, but as a tendency to move. And there was no easy motion, it was not only a finite speed. In other words, a light beam does not need any time of transit.

Pierre Fermat a different view. He believed not only that increased light at a finite speed, but also that its particles or rays described trajectories. Christiaan Huygens, on the other hand, was a firm believer that light is a wave phenomenon. Light propagated at a finite speed in the form of a moving disturbance, like a water wave moves as a ripple on a smooth pond.

Like a ray of light passes over a surface of one medium to another (eg from air to glass), the direction is changed - a phenomenon known as refraction. The law of refraction, discovered by initial empirical Willebrord Snell, then formally derived from Descartes and Fermat, states that sin r = K sin i, where i is the angle of incidence, the angle between the incident ray and the normal (perpendicular ) At the groundbreaking surface. The angle of refraction, r, is the angle between the ray and broke the surface normal.

Fermat and Descartes on the shape of the refraction law, but they disagreed strongly about the importance of the constants K K. Fermat saw as proportional to the reciprocal of the speed of propagation. Descartes, although he believes that the speed of propagation was infinite, concluded on a different level of logic that K was proportional to the speed. The distinction is important because if light accelerated or slowed as it goes into a denser medium determines the meaning of K.

Two opposing positions. Descartes and Fermat were both supporters of a corpuscular theory; Huygens believed in a wave theory. He has also received evidence of the refraction law in relation to the existence of Wavefront, a construction today Huygens principle.

When light is a wave phenomenon, then a medium is required. Sound waves travel through the air, but not by a vacuum; waves require an aqueous medium. At first it was thought that air would be the medium that would contain the spread of light. The simple experiment of shining light through a glass evacuated, but clearly shown that this theory was not correct. Theorists have chosen hypothesize the existence of a medium called ether.

Experimental evidence to support the wave theory of light was particularly strong. Diffraction, the ability to bend light around a sharp edge, certainly had faith in the idea that light is a form of wave motion. Further support came with the discovery of polarization, which showed that the waves of a light wave were perpendicular to the direction of propagation and were not longitudinal, as well as sound and water waves.

So if light was a wave phenomenon, the ether was required, and if so, then certain effects should be observed when a massive body through the airwaves. To determine such effects, telescopic pipes were filled with water to determine the impact on the Starlight. No effect was observed. Attempts to ether "drag" not.

On the other hand, James Bradley discovered stellar aberration in 1729, when he found that he had to aim his telescope a little in the direction of the movement of the earth from the theoretical position of a star. This effect could be compared to a person in the rain tipping its umbrella a little before him, as he walks in the rain. Bradley's discovery supports a corpuscular theory, or at least not the support the Æther idea of a drag.

But it has been postulated, if ether is present, then another phenomenon to watch, ether "drift" is also available. If both the earth and light moving through the airwaves, then the speed of light observed on Earth would depend on the direction of observation. The ether was stationary, the Earth and other planets, the sun and the stars, light and pulled it through. By measuring the apparent speed of light in different directions, it could be the absolute speed and direction of movement of the earth.

In the late 19th Century AA Michelson and EW Morley (1838-1923) tried to ensure the absolute movement of the earth through the ether. No ether drift observed. The conclusion was inconceivable that the speed of light was constant and independent of the movement of the beholder. This paradox has led to Einstein's special theory of relativity, a cosmological theory is of great importance.

Age of Exploding myth of The Photon Belt

Avid reader of Nexus Digest May well to recall an article entitled "The Photon Belt Story," in the February edition in 1991.

I read the article with amusement and laughed it off as a joke, but I have recently become aware that many people take this article seriously and that it was the cause for some concern.

I'm sorry to say that this story as romantic as it may be, has absolutely no basis in fact. It seems that a part of modern mythology, which arose around the Pleiades, an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, the Bull, in contrast to the current scientific knowledge. This mythology seems to be based on an intoxicating mix of pseudo-science, channeling messages from alleged space facilities, biblical prophecy, ignorance and a liberal dose of naivete. There is a general mistrust of our scientific community and misinterpretation of scientific thinking.

It is a sad reflection of science education in our society that so many people can be taken in by a story that probably began life as a student's prank.

For the benefit of those readers who do not read the article, in brief, it goes as follows:

In 1961, satellite-born instruments discovered a photon BAND in space. This PHOTON belt or MANASIC RING, the scientists were unable to reproduce in the lab, orbits the Pleiades and extends over 400 light years to our solar system. Quoting deadline someone named José Comas Sola, our solar orbit was told this system and all these stars were said to have planets. Our Sunday has been said about this system orbit in 24,000 years. During this time we spend 10,000 years alternately in the darkness and 2000 in light of the PHOTON belt. We have said that they, in the light of the PHOTON BELT, whereupon, we would all be converted in the Wink of an eye "in Atmosphereans and night does not exist anymore, among others.

A chart showing accompanies the article 6 of the Pleiadian stars, Merope, Atlas, Maya, Teygeta, Electra, Coeleno and our own sun in orbit around Alcyone, also a member of the Pleiades, surrounded by the PHOTON belt.

According been contacted by several members of the public with questions about this story, I decided to sort the fact from fiction and pursue the story on his "home.

The article was reprinted with permission from the Australian UFO Research Flying Saucer magazine. A phone number had been given. The telephone number turned out that a prominent South Australian UFO researcher who told me that the story originally written by a university student who was a member of his group at the time. This student is now apparently a physicist at a well-known nuclear facility. The UFO researcher was not clear where the student had the information and had attempted to verify the IT aspects with an astronomer at Mount Stromlo Observatory. I was not able to determine what aspects actually been confirmed.

Fortunately, the astronomer concerned was known to me, so I paid him a visit. He vaguely recalled in an interview with the researcher, but could not remember the exact details of the conversation. He assured me he would never have verified the existence of the PHOTON BELT, May, but him some information about himself the Pleiades. He told me that Mount Stromlo also had questions about the PHOTON Belt and, like me, the whole thing as a cruel joke.

So, what is reality and what is fiction? Well, for a start, I was unable to find any evidence for a satellite in 1961, the instruments required to PHOTON BAND as described. Satellites of the era were crude by today's standards and were more with telecommunications, operating mainly in radio wavelengths.

Subsequent satellites and probes, with its sophisticated instrumentation, would certainly be in a position PHOTON BELT, however, no such case has ever been reported. This is not a case of scientists around secrets, it is simply because they have never been discovered.

According to other information I have received, this is supposed to be PHOTON BELT with a ELECTROMAGNETIC ZERO-ZONE. This zone is said that a power vacuum, completely lacking in electromagnetic fields. If it exists, this NULL ZONE would certainly have shown up in the sky many polls, which in recent years on the Cosmic Microwave Background. This background radiation is remarkable because it is so evenly distributed across the entire sky. The electromagnetic NULL ZONE does not exist!

The PHOTON BELT was also described as MANASIC ring, a phenomenon that scientists have not yet been able to reproduce with laboratory experiments. " I have not been able to determine the meaning of the word "manasic." I can only guess that it derives from the word MANA. It is hardly surprising that this does not happen is new in a laboratory, as nobody really seems to know what MANA is beyond its dictionary definition as a mysterious power.

And so on the Pleiades themselves. José Comas Sola, whoever he may be, was either completely wrong or misquoted. Our sun is not part of the Pleiades system, not even orbit the Pleiades per 24,000 years.

The Pleiades are about 125 parsecs, or 407.5 light years from our solar system. A quick calculation shows that if our sun were in this orbit, then its orbital speed would be 0.107C, or slightly more than one tenth of the speed of light. This corresponds to about 32,000 km / sec This speed would seem, not only for astronomers, but at all how the constellations would change dramatically in the course of a single life, if this would be true.

The Pleiades is a loose group of about 100 stars, with an average age of an estimated 78 million years. It is very young stars, much younger than our own sun, an estimated 5 billion years old, much younger, as well as our own planet Earth.

These are very hot, bright stars of spectral type B, much hotter and about 10 times more massive than our sun, spectral G. If you are not away from the interstellar gas cloud, or nebula, from which they formed. Remains of this nebula is readily apparent in photographs of the group. It was suggested that this nebulosity fog, shining with the light of the stars in, is what has led to the myth of the PHOTON belt.

Study of proper motions of these stars, or their movement through space, have shown that they are in the process of dispersion. There is no evidence that these stars orbiting Alcyone, as shown in the diagram. It must also be said that there was no evidence for a planet to one of these stars. It may well be that planetary systems May evolve around some of these stars, but it must be remembered that these are very young stars and planetary formation May also a lot longer than stellar education. It seems unlikely that habitable planets have time to get there. 78 million years is a very short time on the cosmological or geological time scale.

It is very gratifying to think of our planet from the darkness and into the light, although I do not believe that our nocturnal fauna would agree. It is much better for all of us to enlightenment in us. Such enlightenment can not be imposed by external forces. A flood of photons from the Pleiades is not the world, nor is it its inhabitants into enlightened Atmosphereans. We must solve our problems ourselves.

The Photon Belt Info Compilation

Yes, we are moving in a zone in space, the band of photon energy. Our star moves in this band for over 2000 years and this event happens about every 11,000 years. The last time we were in was Atlantis. The 11000th Year from the photon belt she calls the galactic night. Our Star concept is the 8th Pleadian star in the STAR Group. Our star Cirl the star Alcyon, as well as other pleadian stars. Alcyon is in the phton belt all the time. Others are in and for different periods depending on their orbit. The experience we have on Earth at this time is extremely valuable for the breadth of experience in traffic between dimensions that happens, because we are in and out of the photon belt. Trillions of souls trying to get into a position for this trip.

We begin to enter the photon belt now and is fully integrated into the belt all the time from 2012. In the photon belt of the walls between the various dimension will always be thin or non-existent. One of the things that must happen, as we saw in the photon belt is that we have to master the 4th Dimension and integrate it into this planet. The transition into and out of the photon belt is characterized by radical weather patterns, earth changes, and this is particulaly be interesting as the 4th dimensional world begins with the rainfall on our own 3rd dimensional reality. The elements of the 4th each is individually prefer, you can "see" and interact with depends entirely on our consciousness. We could attract a room full of little devils with pitch-fork or a room full of angels. The 4th Dimension is polarized like the 3rd Dimension and nature at the level of the 4th Dimension there own agendas.

From assisitance and blessings for the final interference with our development. Our state of consciousness is the most important thing. You empahisizes all this. It has also stressed that "they are here NOW. She said timing for this event is not important, as we are, from an awareness perspective, we are already in it. Timing is also shifting our perception. You said that the peak activity of the earth would change from 1998 to 2001. She spoke about the dimensions of this way: 1-dimension mineral-rich awareness of the body resonance of the earth "mother", the crystals on 2nd the plant kingdom-conscious feeling of mother earth, concerning the interaction and communication with plants, ie Findhorn 3rd - Time and space-awareness of the dominance of linear time "is here now" polarized POS and NEG 4.-the nonphysical realm of archetypes, guides, and nonphysical beings. Access by guides, archetypes, angels - also polarized and POS NEG 5th consiousness of the cosmic cycles and patterns accessed when awareness of the cosmic pattern 6.-consciousness of "web-weaving" or awareness of certain solemn precipation pattern. ie crop circles are precipitating glyphs and symbols meant to awaken certain patterns of consciousness in us. Sacred working on other global spots. 7.-consciounsess of unity-door way to other institutions of higher dimensions. The sacred work here is to find and re-united with our twin soul. She said it is important to recognize that there is no hierarchy of dimensions, one is not better or more important than another.

Once the photon belt, we have access to all these dimensions of consciousness. THE STORY PHOTON BELT people around the world are grasping, reaching out for small pieces of knowledge, enlightenment, hope for the future of their children in a world of increasing environmental degradation, drugs, rape, murder, etc. The prophets preach the damnation of physical Terror and destruction. It is like a huge vortex, a great sucking spiral ever downward, blackness, despair. They look upward, the light at the top and grasp and claw your way to get out of that ever quickening pull of despair. The truth is sometimes so simple that we are past, ignore it and try to find a much more complicated answer, when the whole time, he is there, staring you right in the face, your passport from the Vortex in the future.

Everything starts with a small atom and the group of little electrons that orbit around him. English physicist Paul Dirac Adrain Maurice, said that for each type of particle, an anti-particle will be. In 1932, Carl David Anderson discovered the anti-electron and called it a positron. In 1956, the anti-anti-protons and neutrons were discovered. When an anti-particle is formed, it comes into existence in a universe of ordinary particles, and it is only a matter of time ... a fraction of a second ... before they met and collides with an electron. Repeal the fees, the total mass of the pair is in power in the form of photons. This offers a new and unprecedented powerful source of energy.

The PHOTON is about to the way of life in the very near future. A photon BAND has been in space in 1961 with the help of satellite born instruments. We will now turn to the Pleiades .... The seven sisters ... an estimated 400 light-years from here. This group of stars is the basis of mythology in many countries ... the Greek gods, Australian Dreamtime, Chinese mythology. I quote from just a few astronomers: José Comas Sola, a special study on the Pleiades and discovered that a system of which our sun is part and also several other suns, and seems to have their own planetary systems research . Freidrich Wilhelm Bessel showed that the members of this group had a proper application of 5.5 seconds of arc per century in the same direction. Isaac Asimov ... "We can assume that all stars in this cluster are the same chronological age." Edmund Halley, studying the position of the stars, noted that at least three stars were not in the spots by the Greeks.

The difference was so great that it is unlikely that either the Greeks or Halley could have made a mistake. It seemed very clear to Halley that these stars within a system. Paul Otto Hesse also a special study on this system, of which our sun is a part, and discovered the absolute right angles to the movements of the sun, a photon belt or MANASIC RING, a phenomenon that scientists still was not able , To reproduce with laboratory experiments. It takes our sun 24,000 years to orbit, (the system) and it is divided into sections. The 10,000 years of darkness is the time, as we know it now, daytime, at night, the 2000-year period of all light; again, 10,000 years of darkness, and 2000 years of light

We are now to in these PHOTON BELT between now and the end of this century. We have the full circle and are back on top. It is described in detail in the Bible, through books on mythology, from Nostradamus, and by modern scholars. If the soil in the first PHOTON BELT, the sky is on fire, but be assured, this light is cold, so there will be no heat. When the sun in the first, it will immediately darkness, which, from our speed through space, it takes 110 hours. The interaction between the solar radiation and the PHOTON BELT, the sky look as if it is full of falling stars. Because the soil in these radiation belts, all molecules will be excited, all atoms will change the situation becomes fluorescent substances, it is constant light. There can be no darkness, not in the deepest cave, not within the human body. A glance at the Christian Bible: "All the stars will fall from the sky and the sky is no longer ...." It is expected that the rotation of the earth may be a little bit. Because of the reduced solar radiation, the temperature is expected to be cooler and ice caps is expected that at about latitude 40 in both hemispheres. Their history books will tell you that at least five ice ages, and they seem on the last 2000 years. It should be noted that the World Communication Center, fixed satellites, U.S. bases and experimental sights are within the "safe zone". Design or accident? What about you?

There are three kinds of people in our cosmos: physical, as we noted, human; atmospherean, even sound to a point, but the molecular structure is very different; ethereans, no mass at all. If we in the Photon Belt, a normal healthy person is expected that the sense jolt similar to put your finger in a live light socket, and the transformation is complete - you have just a physical person for a atmospherean person ( "and so it should be amended to immortality without the separation of death in a moment). Theologians have in great depth on Biblical characters, and argue that they have lived in this period of light. The sky and the atmosphere was different and seemingly never rained. Nostradamus, in his quatrains about the end of the world as we know it in 1999: "and there will be no more rain, but in 40 years, all will be normal." In the mythology of the Aborigines, it is said, "The men were different, what they are now, we had a bridge to the stars." In all their stories if they coincided with the Chief or older, they fled into the sky. Thus the Greeks. It seems that the space is simply within the photon belt. The year 1962 was the year that we are within the influence of the Photon Belt. 1962 was a year of great UFO activity. Have we come within reach of space travelers with the Photon Belt?

As we hurtle closer and closer, more UFO's looking forward to put our rebirth in the years of light. It seems that this is already happening. Erich von Däniken, during a visit to South America, discovered a tribe with an object to them by Sky People thousands of years ago. They were told to keep it clean and "if it hums like thousands of swarms of bees, we will return." It began quietly humming three years ago (ie, 1978). A cosmic alarm alerting us to the coming of the light? It appears that some civilizations May live permanently with the light. If our planet leaves this period of light and return to the 10,000 years of darkness, do it back into the light and wait for our eventual re-entry. It seems likely.

The Mayas deceased hurry with the news of her return, which scientists say is now imminent. Petroglyphs throughout the world show drawings similar to the system of Alcione. Ball Lightning ... a phenomenon over which little is known, it is perhaps little pockets of the Photon Belt? To all UFO researchers, these vehicles will always have an interest in nuclear facilities. What happens to a reactor within the belt? I think all our scientists are progressing. Photon energy seems to be the energy of the future. Many UFO reports suggest Photon rockets on experimental craft "the headlights were on the back." The reports give slow, cumbersome craft, but within the Photon Belt, I think we have crafts for immediate unlimited space. As the rays of our sun will be changed by the photon energy, this is why our scientists only pay lip service to small development of solar energy? Let us about our planet and from the light in the darkness. Aboriginal mythology says: "We were cast out into darkness and were much afraid, so that the gods gave us a Sunday to get warm and a moon to see at night." If the ice caps in the form of light years, then increased solar radiation, leaving the belt must surely the ice melt ... Floods. If it does not rain within this period of light, it is understandable why Noah was so intimidated by the sight of that first rainbow. The Gilgamesh speaks of a great flood, but it was apparently more than 10,000 years before Noah's flood. We have thought about our world and the impact on an individual person, but what about humanity as a whole?

It is conceivable that many people will not survive the first shock, when they are not prepared for them. If the ice extends to latitude 40, that covers half of the U.S., and most of Europe and Asia. That is a lot of people without a home. Will they be accepted in other countries? In a limited area of fertility, it will be possible to support the untold millions? I do not think so. And so tomorrow ....

What is The Photon Belt ?

The photon belt (photon ring, manasic ring, or golden mist) is a fringe belief largely in connection with some parts of the New Age movement, a belt or ring of photons is, depending on the source of information that fully cover soil in 2011 and possibly lead to massive loss of electrical equipment with 2-3 days of total darkness or total daylight, and / or a spiritual transition (usually referred to as "a shift in consciousness," " the postponement of the age groups, "or simply" shift ", with the period up to the shift as" The Quickening "and it was also described as" zero "and ties in various prophecies, the Mayan calendar, extraterrestrial life, etc) .

The core of the photon belt beliefs is that an immense a belt of photons, and railways around the Pleiades, a star cluster some 440 light years from Earth, consisting of about 500 stars. After some New Age beliefs, earth will happen if this belt, which are either in the amount of humanity to a higher plane of existence or the end of the world, or both. Essene and Nidel write that they have a temporary window for spiritual transition in which people can reach a higher number of existence.