Galactic time

NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy alike our Milky Way

Galactic time, not to confuse with siderial time, is the time that is described by our spin relative to the center of the galaxy. Just like the moon spinning around the earth and the earth spinning around the sun, we all together, sun, moon and earth and the other planets, are spinning around the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The Max Planck Institute in Germany produced - since 1992 - an animation that shows how the stars in the center of the Galaxy are spinning around the center. The center is situated in Sagittarius A, and is possibly a young black hole: a mass of two million times that of the Sun. Credit: NASA Headquarters - GReatest Images of NASA (NASA-HQ-GRIN) In 1995, the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. ... Credit: NASA Headquarters - GReatest Images of NASA (NASA-HQ-GRIN) In 1995, the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. ... NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light years distant. ... The orbital period is the time it takes a planet (or another object) to make one full orbit. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Germany. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is a massive body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion. ... NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light years distant. ... Sagittarius A (or Sgr A) is a complex radio source at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. ... A black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything past its event horizon from escaping it except through quantum tunnelling behaviour (known as Hawking Radiation). ... The Sun is the star at the center of Earths solar system. ...

The galactic day

A galactic day can thus be understood as one revolution around the sun of the earth relative to the center of the galaxy. It gives a slightly longer (about 1/71 day) 'galactic' year (in fact a galactic day thus) that runs ahead through the seasons, beginning when we are closest to the center of the galaxy (or at the greatest distance, there is no cultural precedent). Midnight 6-7 july in the year 2000 could be used as a starting point of being closest to the galaxy center for counting these galactic days, that are conceived as galactic new years on a solar calendar. This slightly longer 'galactic year' is due to the precession of the equinox, the drift of the stars causing the date of the galactic new day to move upward through the calendar (see also the Hutchinson Encyclopedia). Precession refers to a change in the direction of the axis of a rotating object. ... The Hutchinson Encyclopedia is an English-language general encyclopedia. ...

The galactic year

A galactic year can be described as one revolution around the center of the galaxy which at a speed of about 250 km/sec. takes about 226 millions of years with a radius of about 26 thousand lightyears. The age of our solar system is about 20 of these revolutions. Thus we are 20 galactic years old, departing from the supposition that our galaxy the Milky Way, is about 4.5 billion years old, and that the progress of galactic spin would be uniform. The length of a galactic year is not yet accurately known, because the orbital speed and radius are not. It might be 225 Myr, or it might be 200, or 250. NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light years distant. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ...

The Milky Way in Hinduism

Since the time of the ancient civilization, humanity has placed great importance in the patterns and movements of the stars. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000-5,500 years, with cuneiform possibly being the oldest form of writing. ...

The galaxy seen as a dolphin, a śiśumãra

The Hindu name for the galaxy is Śiśumãra (meaning dolphin) and its center is designated as the mountain Meru, which is also the point connected to the navel of the god Vishnu, the Maintainer, the place where the lotus of the universe sprouted (see S.B. 5.23:8 and S.B. 2.2: 25). It is the third point of reference, after the Sun and the Moon, dealing with the force field of the aether and the cosmic reality where all of existence is found. Psychologically it settles the final identity of the planet Earth, assigning it a defined place and life among the stars. Image File history File links Sisumara. ... Image File history File links Sisumara. ... Genera For other uses, see Dolphin (disambiguation). ... Meru may refer to: Méru, a commune of the Oise département in France. ... For other uses of the name Vishnu, see Vishnu (disambiguation). ... The luminiferous aether: it was hypothesised that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that carries light In the late 19th century the luminiferous aether (light-bearing aether), or ether, was a substance postulated to be the medium for the propagation of light. ...

Cultural function

The subject of galactic time, as of 2006, is solely of importance to a collective cultural persistance for more than a century. It transcends the individual interest of individual lifetimes to the level of the interest of the collective, to keep the same time identity in respect of the dynamic universe in an illusion-free scientific manner. This sameness is essential for the survival, welfare and stability of a culture. For the self-awareness of our growing mondial culture and the wished stability thereof is a clear vision of the dynamic reality, of as well the galactic as the local of cyclic time (see solar time and lunar phases) that conditions all living creatures, thus important. Sage Vyâsadeva writes about it: The One [the Lord of Time] who moves distinct from all the diversity by the name of Eternal Time [cyclic and linear time combined] and by His own energy in different ways brings to life the seeds of creation and dissipates the darkness of the living entities during the day, should be offered respect with attention for all His five different types of [dynamic] years [the solar year, the galactic year, the planetary year, the lunation or any aniversary year], so that one thus by offerings brings about quality in one's material existence. (S.B. 3.11: 15) Therefore is there the concept of galactic time and the galactic year, the third option of order, after the calendering to the first and the second order of the sun and the moon. Solar time is based on the idea that when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky, it is noon. ... In astronomy, a phase of the Moon is any of the aspects or appearances presented by the Moon as seen from Earth, determined by the portion of the Moon that is visibly illuminated by the Sun. ... Veda Vyasa(Contemporary painting) Vyasa (Vyāsa in IAST transliteration) is an important and much revered figure in the Hindu tradition and its literature. ...

Scientific relevance

The spin of the stars in the galaxy, or the galactic year, is used as a proof for the ether as defined by galactic space; the space that with its physical qualities as a forcefield sets the order of all cyclic local and interlocal times in the galaxy. The Hubble redshift of the lightspectrum of expanding time space may be considered the proof of the primal ether of the expanding cosmic reality of all galactic universes. Gravitational lenses are the proof of curved space or the local ether. Thus is the relativistic ether, as suggested by Albert Einstein in 1920 as a consequence of the insights to the theory of General Relativity of Hendrik Lorentz and his local time concept, empirically proven. Hubbles law is the statement in astronomy that the redshift in light coming from distant galaxies is proportional to their distance. ... In physics, spacetime is a model that combines three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time into a single construct called the space-time continuum, in which time plays the role of the 4th dimension. ... A gravitational lens is formed when the light from a very distant, bright source (such as a quasar) is bent around a massive object (such as a massive galaxy) between the source object and the observer. ... It has been suggested that Einsteins theory of gravitation be merged into this article or section. ... Albert Einstein, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1948. ... For a non-technical introduction to the topic, please see Introduction to General relativity. ... Painting of Hendrik Lorentz by Arnhemensis Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem – February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist and the winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electromagnetic radiation. ... Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ...

Links

• Time
• Galaxy
• The 'aether' or galactic space, timespace and curved space
• Solar time
• Lunar day
• Hutchinson Encyclopedia
• Siderial period
• Lunar phases
• Hendrik Lorentz on local, true time
• Bhãgavata Purãna

A pocket watch. ... NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light years distant. ... The luminiferous aether: it was hypothesised that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that carries light In the late 19th century the luminiferous aether (light-bearing aether), or ether, was a substance postulated to be the medium for the propagation of light. ... Solar time is based on the idea that when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky, it is noon. ... In space exploration, a lunar day is the period of time it takes for the Moon to complete one full rotation on its axis. ... The Hutchinson Encyclopedia is an English-language general encyclopedia. ... The orbital period is the time it takes a planet (or another object) to make one full orbit. ... In astronomy, a phase of the Moon is any of the aspects or appearances presented by the Moon as seen from Earth, determined by the portion of the Moon that is visibly illuminated by the Sun. ... Painting of Hendrik Lorentz by Arnhemensis Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem – February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist and the winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electromagnetic radiation. ... The Bhagavata Purana (sometimes rendered as Bhagavatha Purana), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam, written c. ...

External Links

• Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik - Infrared/Submillimeter Astronomy - Galactic Center Research.
• The Order of Time: Galactic Time - all about our timing to the center of the galaxy.
• Śrĭmad Bhãgavatam - The Indian classic describing the Milky way seen in the sky as a dolphin for its white belly.
• Filognosy or The order of Time - The site on how to have a life with the ether and its primal linear, and galactic as well as local cyclic order of time.
• Ether and the Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein's 1920 inaguration address at the University of Leyden (actually delivered on 27 October 1920).
• Einstein, the ether and relativism - article.