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Originally posted by JVBeats
I'm most likley wrong, but I thought it would be cool to add my thoughts. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Isn't our solar system supposed to pass through the center of the galaxy in 2012 or something to that effect? The reason I'm asking is because I have seen many articles saying there is a black hole at the center of the milkyway. If I've put 2 & 2 together, that equals 4 rite? Nah, but really, It seems that this path could lead to some shrinkage.
you're wrong, fortunatly
It would be the same as saying that the moon will pass through the sun within a few years (while all other planets and moons nicely stay in orbit).
Our solarsystem turns around the center of our galaxy (The Milkeyway) together with a gazzilion other 'solar' systems, just as the planets of our solar system turn around the sun.
In essence, our solarsystem is a miniature version of our galaxy: the sun being the center, and the planets representing the solar systems. Just as the Earth and the Moon are a mini-mini-galaxy. Just as atoms and electrodes are mini-mini-mini-galaxies, etc...
What might be happening is that someday our solar system would be nicely aligned so that we could point telescopes towards the center of our galaxy to study it without interferance of other planets, or something like that. Or that the sun would be nicely aligned with the center in reference to the Earth, etc...
But the entire solar system suddenly travelling out of orbit and going on vacation to the center of the Milkeyway is a bit wrong
(if that would be true then all our star constilations would already be completely different and we would already suffer from various disasters caused by gravity shifts and whatever).
7 reasons the world will end in 2012
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