You're missing something important! Due to possible errors in their long term
calculations we may have actually missed the end! Passed right by with nobody
noticing...
Peter
On 12/17/2012 2:31 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
You knew it would be coming..
A discussion over lunch brought up the question of precisely WHEN this Maya
calendar rollover/civilization ending event would occur. It's not enough to
just say "dec 21st".. Does the event occur at the beginning of the day, end of
the day, in which local time scale.. Local news media and the blogosphere are
woefully ignorant of such basic questions which time-nuts learn to ask at
their mother's knee.
I did find a reference that it's tied to the Solstice, or which we have a
fairly precise instant: 1112UTC (although I've seen other numbers floating
around). So, basically, I could not have to worry about going into work on
Friday, because all the excitement will be over here in the Pacific Time
zone(but I will have to get up real early to see it happen)
But just like other time scales, how did those mesoAmericans reconcile their
360 day cycle to 365.25... day intervals between solstices?
I've been rummaging through my ION CD of time and celestial nav papers, but
didn't find anything at first on the whole issue (plenty on other
astronomically derived scales).
Anybody have any decent links to go hunting for?
5000 years is plenty long for significant precession of the equninoxes, for
instance.. Maybe those Maya astronomers did a bang up job measuring, but hey,
they probably didn't account for those higher order effects.
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