[meteorite-list] Quickie

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 23:08:29 -0400
Message-ID: <BAY153-W127AB89D3D0A1F2ADDF908F81D0_at_phx.gbl>

Brilliant, Sterling!

 

I believe you've just written the next verse for Monty Python's Galaxy Song.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk




> From: sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net
> To: nf114ec at npgcable.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 14:53:01 -0500
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Quickie
>
> Jim, List,
>
> Whoops!
>
> The Sun revolves around the center of our galaxy
> at about 220 km/sec which suggests a period of
> about 240,000,000 years. That's the current estimate,
> although the range of calculated values runs from
> 225 million years to 250, so the Sun has made 20
> orbits so far. Oddly, it's a retrograde (backwards) orbit.
>
> What isn't known is the ECCENTRICITY of that orbit.
> If it's reasonably eccentric, has the Sun plunged down
> through the Galactic Core region 20 times? The Core
> is incredibly crowded with stars and dust and molecular
> clouds and weird sh-..., er, stuff of every kind. It's really
> crowded in that neighborhood. Look at a picture of a
> spiral galaxy and you'll see what I mean.
>
> The prospect of that particular joyride is a little daunting,
> at least to me. Every time I read that some geologist or
> other has detected a 250 million year periodicity in major
> change on Earth (like orogeny), it bothers me.
>
> Now, you know that eight-year-old is going to ask the next
> question, "What does the Galaxy go around?" The answer is
> the barycenter of the Local Group, which is itself in orbit
> around the barycenter of the Virgo Supercluster, which is
> itself heading a some good speed toward the Great Attractor,
> about which we know little... or maybe nothing, except it
> must be a whopper.
>
> If he's the eight-year-old I think he is, he will then ask,
> "Does the Universe go around anything?" Sheesh. In 1949,
> Kurt G?del published an exact and perfect alternative solution
> of Einstein's equations in which the Universe rotates (but
> doesn't have an axis). It also has a number of other truly
> spooky properties that give me a headache.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_metric
>
> Since then, others have published other exact and perfect
> solutions of Einstein's equations all of which show rotation.
> None of these solutions are testable, at least not so far.
>
> But you can cut off the eight-year-old with "The universe
> is everything there is, so there's nothing else for it to go
> around."
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Wooddell" <nf114ec at npgcable.com>
> To: "Meteorite-List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Quickie
>
>
> > It was science week at an elementary school.
> > A third grade teacher was teaching the young kids in his class about
> > the solar system. He came in early one day and moved all the desks to
> > the side of the classroom on each wall. He proceeded to set up the
> > sun and planets using various sized styrofoam balls on stands that
> > represented our sun, planets and moons. It took several hours to set
> > up and filled the center of the class room.
> >
> > Later that morning, after the children arrived, he walked around
> > explaining the orbits, and how things worked.
> > Afterwards the children could ask questions.
> >
> > One young girl asked how the moon went around the earth. So he
> > grabbed the moon and showed her how it went around the earth.
> >
> > Another young student asked how the earth went around the sun. So
> > with the help of the young girl the asked the first question, he show
> > the earth going around the sun at the same time the moon was going
> > around the earth! It took some coordination!
> >
> > One of the brighter students then asked the question....if all these
> > planets go around the sun, then what does the sun go around?? The
> > teacher looked around the room, paused and said, "Good Question"!
> >
> >
> > Are we having fun yet?
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > Jim Wooddell
> > http://k7wfr.us
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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