Requiem for Relativity

Hi *******,

Thanks for checking. I'm unfamiliar with the asteroid resources, so I didn't think I could do a good job checking, by myself.

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The reason I asked about the axes, is that I had decided to check NASA's claim that there is no planetary alignment on Dec. 21, 2012. It turns out, that it depends what one means by a planetary alignment. At the winter solstice 2012, the asteroids 511 Davida, 39 Laetitia, 947 Monterosa and 1717 Arlon all are within 3 deg or less, of heliocentric conjunction or opposition with an object I discovered in a perfect orbit on four sky surveys, near the positive CMB dipole (discovered Feb. 2007). What is significant, is that the four asteroids, are exactly the four asteroids on the IAU list whose rotation periods lie between 5.1294h & 5.1655h: four consecutive asteroids, when the periods are arranged in order, all lying within one of two 6-degree intervals of approximate alignment.

Furthermore, by averaging all axis determinations in the literature (correcting for 180deg ecliptic longitude ambiguity where necessary) I find that Davida and Laetitia, at least, have the same rotation axis (a condition which, according to Newtonian physics, shouldn't persist more than a few million years).

If Luna's orbit is "played back" to the Roche limit, one finds 5.05h for Earth's primordial rotation period; the most reasonable correction I could make, for a less dense early Luna, makes that 5.13h. An authoritative 2007 article about Saturn's rings, says the shortest orbital period of their particles, is 5.25h, but the radius estimates that the article gives for the innermost ring, D68, correspond to about 4.98h. There's also a simple theoretical expression involving the Planck time and, essentially, the electric to gravity ratio, that gives 5.1287h as the period corresponding to a sort of "gravitational Planck time". So there's reason to believe that this period of rotation has undiscovered physical significance.

The object I discovered on sky surveys in 2007 (all fairly starlike, fairly consistent magnitudes, and seeming to show the "Eberhard effect" suggesting they really are on the plates, not scanning artifacts), which I named Barbarossa (not for the German WWII military operation, but from the prologue to a novel by one of my fellow Harvard grads, that was made into a Hollywood movie) shows a perfect orbit on four sky surveys: eccentricity=0.61, i=12.9, present distance 213AU, a=344AU. A year ago, the U. of Iowa let me use their 14 inch robotic scope to search, but often the images didn't turn out, the procedure was surprisingly time-consuming, and anyway I never was able to re-image the object unequivocally. A few experienced amateurs also have tried to image "Barbarossa" at my extrapolated coordinates, with telescopes as big as 16 or 17 inches, but also without any unequivocal success. Most of the imaging attempts were made before my extrapolation methods were very good. The sky surveys were using photographic plates and 40 inch Schmidt cameras, with hourlong exposures. Since no one knows the nature of the object that I found (it might even be intermittently self-luminous), the stacked brief CCD exposures might or might not be adequate; so, there really hasn't been a good attempt to duplicate the original positive sky survey result.

There are resonances or other mathematical relationships between the orbital period of Barbarossa (6340 +/- (conservatively) 9yr, from the sky surveys; mass ~ 0.01 solar, as estimated from simple outer planet precession resonances which might explain the lack of disruption of Neptune's orbit), the Mayan Long Count, and many physically or observationally important solar system periods. For details, see my posts to Dr. Van Flandern's messageboard, but just one sample:

5125yr Mayan Long Count / 84.01yr Uranus orbital period= 61.005 (an integer)

Recent articles in authoritative archaeology journals suggest not only the Clovis human extinction c. 12900 Before Present (or rather perhaps 12680 BP, according to Brauer's lake varves) but also, according to recent fossil cranial data, widespread human extinction (drastic reduction in cranial diversity) in N. American and Europe, roughly 6000 BP without drastic climate change. The oldest known megalithic observatory, at Nabta in Egypt, dates to ~ 6500 BP. Australia, at least, had more-or-less simultaneous bicoastal megatsunamis then.

My own simple interpretation of Eduard Meyer's Sothic Dates, puts Day One of the original Egyptian calendar, at the summer solstice 4328BC = 6339.5yr before the winter solstice 2012AD, at which time Arcturus rose heliacally on the summer solstice at 30N.

If, when the Giza pyramids were new, one stood sighting Sirius on the meridian at the peak of Menkaure's pyramid, simultaneously Arcturus would have appeared at the peak of one of the large Giza pyramids. If, 6170 yr earlier, one also sighted Sirius on the meridian at the peak of Menkaure's, the other large Giza pyramid, then would have had, at its peak, the very same point in the constellation Crater where Barbarossa will be in Dec. 2012 (all this is with ~ 1deg error, consistent with the precession uncertainty implied by Ptolemy's data). Thus the Giza pyramids encode their date of construction, and also the critical position of Barbarossa and the approximate period of Barbarossa's orbit.

The Giza pyramids and the Mayan calendar were part of a philanthropic effort to preserve warning information for millenia so that "this time around, it can be different". If Khufu was an egomaniac, why did he apparently not bother to have more than a few small cheap statues made of himself? This time it CAN be different: the truth can be discovered, survival strategies can be improvised. But only if the government-funded astronomers stop acting like they work at a Dickensian "Circumlocution Office".

Sincerely,
Joseph C. Keller, M. D.

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addendum on messageboard only:

A month ago I went to the office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Drake Univ. and offered to speak for 15 or 30 minutes, on this subject, to their faculty club. After the Dean himself finished scowling at me from a distance for a minute or so, while refusing to see me, the Associate Dean took me to his office where he tried smilingly to shoo me out the door without even finding out anything about my qualifications. I left seemingly on good terms, after spending a few minutes telling him my qualifications and giving him some sample results from my work, but I never received any answer about speaking to their faculty, or any other response.

Hi Dr Joe, You seem to have your mind made up weather or not the model is true and correct. So, can I ask what kind of events are you expecting to occur in 2012?

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<br />Hi Dr Joe, You seem to have your mind made up weather or not the model is true and correct. So, can I ask what kind of events are you expecting to occur in 2012?
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Hi Jim! Thanks for your post. Almost everything I've thought, about what might happen this time, or what did happen the last two times, is posted to this thread, but here's a summary:

The phenomenon seems to involve yet-undiscovered physical forces, which are inconsistent with textbook "Relativity", and which I don't understand, but which reveal themselves through solar system resonances, asteroid alignments, previous geologic, oceanic and meteorologic events, and clues in ancient architecture and calendars. Because new physical forces are important to the phenomenon, the main cause of destruction might not be anything familiar like comets or solar flares. Then again, it might be, that a comet swarm resonates with this 6340yr period, or that something in the sun does. So, it might be mainly comets and/or solar flares, or it might mainly be something stranger, that no one knows about yet.

Sudden drastic cooling was important ~12680 yr ago. Tsunamis, but not severe climate change, were important ~6340 yr ago. Anyway, I bought some seedlings in 2009 to improve the windbreak around my house, to help keep it warm and reduce snowdrift. Vice President Gore deserves credit for alerting us all to the danger of climate change, even though he might have guessed wrong about the direction of that change.

I also bought Douglas Fir seed. It's recommended (the "Rocky Mountain" variety only) for the upper Midwest. It gave me excellent germination and fast growth. I have more Douglas Fir seedlings than I know what to do with. I'll give you some if you happen to come to my neighborhood (central Iowa). Or you can buy seed in moderately large quantities only (like an ounce or more) from the professional seed collector I bought from (no relation to me), Dean Swift in Colorado (the seed I got was from Lincoln National Park, New Mexico, at high altitude, i.e., cold winter climate, so at least one nursery in Michigan also uses it; my seed was from the bumper crop in 2004, stored in a deepfreeze).

The Russians have announced a comet-deflection project (see, Wall Street Journal Jan. 6, 2010). Maybe what they're not telling us, is that it's really about anticipated comet swarms in 2012.

Many people say, I ought to be saying prettyplease to the government astronomers instead of standing outside their "Circumlocution Office" and denouncing them like the elderly gentleman in last year's BBC movie version of Dickens' "Little Dorrit". If someone wants to try a milder approach to them, like the young "Arthur" character in "Little Dorrit", be my guest; maybe it'll work, though I doubt it.

The astronomy bureaucracy is so big, so rich (from taxing you), so arrogant, that nothing constructive will happen about 2012, until they're humbled, more or less crushed, and they won't be humbled until their conceit, selfishness, inadequacy and failure are perceived, by many people, as life-threatening. Then it will be tragically heavy-handed, it will be like Stalin blaming an agronomy professor for the Russian famines and punishing him by starving him to death in prison. The professor didn't deserve that, but it was partly his own fault: he was focused on fancy research; he was "in denial", not realizing that Russia's problem wasn't lack of technology, Russia's problem was chaos. They simply weren't getting into the fields (for various reasons ranging from administrative negligence to malfeasance).

With web searches, I found the names of many astronomers who have measured lightcurves of Monterosa and Arlon, though their data were published too summarily or cryptically, to allow calculation of the rotation axis, from what I could see on the internet. I found the email addresses of several, and emailed them asking what the axes were. So far none have responded.

Here is an opportunity for readers of this messageboard to do something constructive: independently of me, you can find out the email addresses of the researchers who have published lightcurves of Monterosa and/or Arlon, and ask them about the rotation axis (my recent posts explain why that's important). Then they'll realize that I'm not a "loner", and that there is some popular demand.

Hi Dr Joe, Its good to see you are aware of forces you don't understand and are unknown at this time, but, have you considered there might be something with the model you are basing all this conjecture on? Anyway, Have you used the Minor Planet Center as a data bank to find the info you want? I don't know how to setup a search at MPC but the application form looks good. And questions can be posted at MPS too. They should have what ever data there is and know more about the solar system the dean of a school.

I've been looking at the IAU Minor Planet Center website since last week and haven't found anything that suggests they would make an adequate response. However, anyone who thinks contacting them is worthwhile, is welcome to try. They direct the comments into bureaucratic pigeonholes (almost like "Press 7 if you think your data have been lost") practically advertising that a specialized inquiry like mine would be a waste of time. One can contact individual staff members only if one knows their email address, but the email addresses aren't listed, at least not anywhere I can find them. Incidentally, my form email to the Hubble Space Telescope was never answered.

The best I've been able to do this morning, has been to send them the following on their "Feedback form":

"I want to have all known data on the rotation periods and/or rotation axes of asteroids 947 Monterosa and 1717 Arlon. I have the wherewithal to estimate the rotation axes, if I have the lightcurves in decipherable form. This is important.

Sincerely,
Joseph C. Keller"

I won't get a satisfactory response to the above. I did it so I can say I've done it.

The way to get the real data, is to do what I suggested in my previous post. I suggest emailing the individual researchers directly (they can be found from web searches and/or from the IAU minor planet website), using one's real name, and ask about "the rotation axes of Monterosa and Arlon". (None of the ones whose email addresses I found, have answered yet, but the more different people email them, the likelier they'll be to look into the matter.)

Better yet would be to visit them personally in their offices, which is on my list of things to do, but there's nothing stopping anyone else from doing that before I can get around to it. I'm legally prohibited from leaving North America (US, Canada, Mexico), due to an alleged monetary debt owed to a wealthy person, so any visits to European astronomers will have to be by someone else.

There are four asteroids, all with the same rotation period, that align with Barbarossa at the end of the Mayan Long Count. At least two of these asteroids have the same rotation axis as well. If it could be shown that the other two also have that same rotation axis, I might be able to get some traction by advertising this to the educated public, perhaps through a leaflet campaign (I doubt I would get more than blank stares from professional astronomers, though).

Hi Dr Joe, Some times not getting a rapid reply is good. What I find most puzzling is both you and you and your bad astronomers are using the same model that seems to be the cause of most of the confusion and humor that astronomy has generated during the past 80 years or so. But, thats another matter;so-Why not simplify your requests? Ask if any data exists about the objects you want to know about. Ask who might know anything about whatever you are looking for like if you were shopping. Astronomers are people too.