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![]() 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. 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/st...-in-the-milky- 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=D6wI3...eature=related 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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On 17 feb, 13:35, wrote:
Here is a link to the Andrea Ghez video:http://video.aol.com/video-detail/st...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=D6wI3...eature=related And now the link to the related BoM verses please |
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On Feb 17, 4:35*am, 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/st...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=D6wI3...eature=related 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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On Feb 17, 4:35 am, 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. 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/st...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=D6wI3...eature=related 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... What a drag! They used to murder children for worshipping the Satan. No wonder they were cursed. |
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On Feb 17, 7:35*am, 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. 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/st...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=D6wI3...eature=related 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... Darn. The first link was line-wrapped. Let's try again: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/st...way/1421750148 or video.aol.com/video-detail/stars-around-a-black-hole-in-the-milky-way/ 1421750148 The Andrea Ghez video is quite interesting. Have a view. |
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On Feb 17, 1:40*pm, oldwifetale wrote:
On Feb 17, 4:35*am, 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. Your's is certainly an explanation that is more in reach. That is, Andrea Ghez used the creme de la creme of our latter day optics technology to pierce through to galactic center. How the Maya could have developed a mythology, as couched in a sport, around something they could not have seen, begs an explanation that opens the door to lots of book and magazine salesmen. 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/st...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=D6wI3...eature=related 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...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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