"Precession of the Equinox is the illusion of time going backwards"
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is (also) the Sun as it p r e c e s s e s out of the sign of Virgo into Leo, the sign of the King." |
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the "birth" of the Sun (circa 10,500 BC) |
Precession
is directly
related to Pi and the geometry of a circle.
The
time difference
between the mean solar day and "precession"(sidereal "what's real"
time)
is 3.141592654 (Pi) seconds (of time) per day. Pi seconds per day
accumulates
to 22.94884425 hours in 72 years or approximately 1 degree (day) of
arc.
(Precession is approximately 1 degree in 72 years.)
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"non-geek speak"... just suppose that the Sun always
rises at
exactly 6 a.m. and your wrist watch is running fast
by 2 seconds
each day, but you are unaware of it. So, after a
year, it
appears clearly evident to you that the Sun is slowing down.....you get
"there", to see the sunrise (one year later) at 6 a.m. (according to
your
watch) and the Sun doesn't show up until about 12 minutes later and
after
two years the Sun is 25 minutes late! It never occurs to you
that
the wristwatch that your great-grandfather made needs a cleaning and
also,
because that you are the center of the universe and the only
intelligent
life form that was ever created, it never enters your mind that your
system
of measurement (wristwatch) is a bit off......the only reasonable
conclusion
to make is that the outer universe is wobbling
because of all of
the banana peels that your ancestors have left in outer
space. :-)
A similar result occurs in the "real world" ("Precession" or apparent backwards movement of the visible universe as viewed from Earth) because our calendar runs a bit faster than what is actually happening in the visible (Sidereal) universe......we "show up" (unaware) early to take our measurements and conclude that the entire universe is "backing up".
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Please note that the astronomical periods (ages, great years, etc.) given in the following segment are based upon a "geometric year" of 360 days and vary slightly from the actual time spans.
