http://montalk.net/science/136/the-physics-of-2012
Very Amazing READ
It’s possible that radiating outwardly from the galactic center are spiral arms of greatly altered gravitational potential. As our solar system moves around the galactic center, it will cyclically enter and exit these spiral arms so that all planets and the Sun experience a simultaneous change in their gravitational potential.
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Far from being New Age speculation, this follows directly from a creative application of quantum and relativistic physics.
*facepalm*
No.
I'm sorry bro, but I have to call this out. This is not sound thinking.
First of all-- that article is not science: it is shit.
I don't mean to be harsh, but it
is New Age speculation. It's not a "creative application" of anything, its garbage that doesn't even make sense.
The article meshes theories that are completely incompatible; it fails to recognize the staggering differences between the classical, relativistic, and quantum models. It makes statements that have no scientific basis, and speculates about the unknowable.
Worst of all, it slaps down a few random equations to feign scientific legitimacy. Nothing angers me more than that. It confuses people who haven't been trained in a scientific discipline (a decent scientist would NEVER do that, its like heresy) and its just very distasteful.
No serious physicist would continue reading that article past the first paragraph, because it's just
so far off-base.
For some reason, the "New Age" movement just
loves quantum mechanics-- probably because they enjoy how "bizarre" it seems. Like "oh wow, even
science is full of wacky crap nowadays-- maybe we haven't totally lost the plot".
If you're looking for explanations, don't look at science. Seriously. Look somewhere else.
Science just offers working models for purposes of prediction, it has never claimed to do anything else. Especially not something as grandiose as explaining the nature of reality; which cannot even be done within the context of a systematically-provable theory anyways (as espoused by Godel in his second incompleteness theorem).
I'm sorry if I came off as harsh, I mean no ill-will.
But that article should be taken off the internet, seriously. And the person who wrote it should be flogged with their own copy of the Mayan calender. Science has NOTHING to say about any New Age ideas, nor will it
ever have anything to say about those ideas.