Ancient Timekeepers, Part 2: Observing the Sky We perceive the universe we inhabit has three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. Our planet wobbles slowly like a gyroscope in space spinning once per day while it “circles” the sun during its annual course. Despite of observing the sky from the "moving point of view", ancient astronomers were able to discover and … [Read more...]
Ancient Timekeepers, Part 1: Movements of the Earth
Ancient Timekeepers It seems that ancient people had knowledge about the astronomical cycles of the Earth equal to our modern knowledge. Explore with us how the ancient astronomers could have discovered and precisely measured these cycles without any prior knowledge about them and without advanced technology we have today. This article is presented in 3 separate parts (part … [Read more...]
The Earth Changes and the Mayan Predictions
As scientists continue to debate the cycle of global warming and the cause and effect of what’s happening in our world, I propose that we instead take a play from the Mayan playbook and “look to the past to predict the future.” The Maya believe that in order to understand what tomorrow will hold for us, we simply must look to the past for the cycles that have come before and … [Read more...]