On Feb 17, 4:35=A0am, Jag_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Andrea Ghez And The Maya Ball Game
>
> Not a subject that I give energy to, but I had
> a thought and instead of just dropping it into
> a black hole I thought I'd at least take the time
> to put it out there.
I had a thought about the ball game one time also. I thought about the
solstice sun going north and south, back and forth each year, over and
over throughout the years as the precession of the equinoxes
continued... causing the sun to 'hit' a certain point each year at
each solstice, only to 'bounce' back in the other direction... until
finally a point of the sky reached a place (by reason of precession)
where the sun did not 'bounce' back (north or south), but instead went
through the 'hoop' or hole in the sky.
North l<- - o - ->l South
Just a thought.
>
> Happened to catch, back to back, snippets from two
> programs. One snippet was on PBS and the other was
> on the History Channel.
>
> The History Channel program was about the Maya
> climactic date of December 21, 2012 and the Earth's
> special alignment with the galactic center on that date.
>
> The program also talked about the Maya Ball game.
> The video of the Mayan Ball game came immediately
> to mind when I observed the video created for (by?)
> Andrea Ghez which was shown during the PBS program.
>
> The Andrea Ghez video shows the high speed dance of
> stars that takes place at galactic center, presumably
> around a great dark rift -- a black hole. The stars travel
> at enormous speeds in ringed paths around a central
> hole (the black hole). The stars try and try but they
> never quite make it into the hole. They deflect away
> and go bouncing out into space. But then the forces of
> gravity kick the stars into a return path towards the hole
> for another attempt.
>
> This, of course, is analogous to the Maya Ball Game.
> There are slopped walls on either side of the ball court
> (or steep walls in some designs) which correspond to a
> gravity well. The players keep the ball in motion and
> they represent the force of gravity. And then there is
> the hoop, or circle, that is the ultimate goal of the game.
> Once the ball goes into the hoop the game is over and
> some players are rewarded with death.
>
> Here is a link to the Andrea Ghez
video:http://video.aol.com/video-detail/=
stars-around-a-black-hole-in-the-mi...
>
> way/1421750148
>
> Here is a link to a recreation of a Maya Ball
Game:http://revver.com/video=
/221896/mayan-ball-game/
>
> Someone posted a bit of the History Channel program
> on
Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DD6wI3Pbolbw&feature=3Drelated
>
> Would not surprise me if the connection, or attempted connection,
> has been made a thousand times already between Andrea Ghez and the
> Maya Ball Game, or then again...
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