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Sun Has Binary Partner, May Affect The Earth
While the findings in Lost Star are controversial, astronomers now agree that most stars are likely part of a binary or multiple star system.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2005
The ground-breaking and richly illustrated new book, Lost Star of Myth and Time, marries modern astronomical theory with ancient star lore to make a compelling case for the profound influence on our planet of a companion star to the sun.
Author and theorist, Walter Cruttenden, presents the evidence that this binary orbit relationship may be the cause of a vast cycle causing the Dark and Golden Ages common in the lore of ancient cultures.
Researching archaeological and astronomical data at the unique think tank, the Binary Research Institute, Cruttenden concludes that the movement of the solar system plays a more important role in life than people realize, and he challenges some preconceived notions:
The phenomenon known as the precession of the equinox, fabled as a marker of time by ancient peoples, is not due to a local wobbling of the Earth as modern theory portends, but to the solar system's gentle curve through space.
This movement of the solar system occurs because the Sun has a companion star; both stars orbit a common center of gravity, as is typical of most double star systems. The grand cycle–the time it takes to complete one orbit––is called a "Great Year," a term coined by Plato.
Cruttenden explains the affect on earth with an analogy: "Just as the spinning motion of the earth causes the cycle of day and night, and just as the orbital motion of the earth around the sun causes the cycle of the seasons, so too does the binary motion cause a cycle of rising and falling ages over long periods of time, due to increasing and decreasing electromagnet effects generated by our sun and other nearby stars."
While the findings in Lost Star are controversial, astronomers now agree that most stars are likely part of a binary or multiple star system. Dr. Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at UC Berkeley and research physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is an early proponent of a companion star to our sun; he prefers a 26 million year orbit period. Cruttenden uses 24,000 years and says the change in angular direction can be seen in the precession of the equinox.
Lost Star of Myth and Time expands on the author's award-winning PBS documentary film "The Great Year," narrated by actor James Earl Jones. The book brings intriguing new evidence to the theory of our binary companion star and an age old mystery – the precession of the equinox.
Title: Lost Star of Myth and Time
Pub Date: October, 2005
ISBN: 0-9767631-1-7
Author: Walter Cruttenden
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But wouldn't someone have spotted this binary companion by now?
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Bonk is highly skeptical... :skeptic:
Of course, all objects with mass in the universe are connected by gravity. One could argue that our solar system is tied to every other star in existence. ;)
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Where is this companion Star? Where is the point in Space where the Sun's gravitational influence is overpowered by that of particles in interstellar space? Is it further away than alpha centuri?
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Did you order this Book Jerry? IF so I'd love to give It a read the next time your around.
Stephen
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Cruttenden explains the affect on earth with an analogy: "Just as the spinning motion of the earth causes the cycle of day and night, and just as the orbital motion of the earth around the sun causes the cycle of the seasons, so too does the binary motion cause a cycle of rising and falling ages over long periods of time, due to increasing and decreasing electromagnet effects generated by our sun and other nearby stars."
Hmmm......
DM looks at the logic:
1) "Spinning motion of the earth" causes day & night:
DM takes basketball, hangs it from ceiling by string in dark room, rotates ball, turns on flashlight..... OK, I'll buy that.
Assuming the Earth is actually round-ish and all those NASA photos aren't fakes....
Better than my "Earth is in a giant refrigerator with Zeus making a sandwich every night" theory
2) Orbital motion around the sun causes seasons:
awww, OK
Nitpick: Earth's rotational inclination plays a big role....
3) Binary Sun causes "Ages":
Huh? Wha? Zonks! Yowza!
What's an "age"?
The "MTV age"?"Taco Bell age? "Mankind-standing-upright-and-not-pooping-where-they-sleep" age?
All influenced by a undiscovered binary light-years away?
Then again, maybe it's like a Super-Zodiak?!?! Cool.
DM considers syndication of article:
Post-Disco Age 1982-2005
It's travel or education season for you; keeping all of those obligations on your agenda straight can be a bit of a headache. Go get a notebook; they are cheap now. Oh, and always dress for the job you want not just the one you have. One more thing, locust, famine, and plague are just around the corner! Get new storm shutters and buy duct tape.
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Is it april again? Do I need to google both the man, and his think tank as well as reviews of this book?
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DM gets + karma for his "Zeus making a sandwich" theory.
:rofl:
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What, is it a dark star or something? Is that why we haven't noticed.. oh THE SECOND CLOSEST STAR IN THE SKY?!
Maybe it's always on the other side of the sun.. a quirk like we only see one side of the moon..
And maybe there is another earth in exact opposite orbit from us.. that's where aliens come from and we never see it because it's always on the other side of the sun.. :skeptic:
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Maybe this is why they have been calling for a flu pandemic for years now, a new age is drawing near....
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Link to full story (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/nemesis_010320-1.html)
But Muller's biggest idea is a real Nemesis. Or so he claims.
Like a thorn in the side of mainstream researchers, Muller's Nemesis theory -- that our Sun has a companion star responsible for recurring episodes of wholesale death and destruction here on Earth -- seems to reemerge periodically like microbes after a mass extinction.
It's a theory that has many detractors. And it's a theory that has been beaten down and left for dead in the minds of most scientists.
Yet it is a theory that just won't die.
Nemesis is cautiously supported by a handful of scientists, who often sound like ringside rooters eager for a victory but thankful they don't have to put the gloves on. Muller meanwhile acknowledges the possibility that the whole idea could turn out to be wrong, but he is nonetheless confident that Nemesis will be found within 10 years.
Naturally I would have heard about this one. But will they really find me?
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It is nothing new that statistically most stars form part of binary systems and even ternary systems. Astronomers have been cataloguing stars for centuries, and our Sun has always been thought of as the excpeption that it has no companion star.
The above "theory" has no evidence supporting its claims, no companion star has been identified. I find it highly unlikely that after centuries of astronomical observations, all of a sudden we would locate a brand new star right on our doorstep. Even if such a star was a collapsed red giant or brown dwarf, we would have detected it long ago. A dark star or black hole would also be very noticeable by its X-ray signiture so this can be ruled out as well. The gravitational effect required to explain the 'ages' as theorised by this book, would also show up as innacuracies in mathetical calculations when predicting the gravitational effects of the planets and their courses.