Visualization of the Precession-Time Paradox

By: Walter Cruttenden. Inspired by Sri Yukteswar and Karl-Heinz and Uwe Homann.

Precession is not a physical fact but rather perceived phenomenon only observed because our sun and attendant solar system moves in a large orbital pattern equal in duration to the precession cycle period. There is no other explanation because the computation of time does not allow for it!

First a visual explanation of Precession of the Equinoxes: Imagine you are standing on earth and looking up at the canopy of constellations every year at the exact same time (use the vernal equinox), from the exact same physical point, from the exact same angle of observation. According to current day astronomers you will begin to notice that your gaze "precesses" (regresses) through the constellations at the rate of about 50.1" per year, or about 1 degree every 72 years. In 25,920 years* you have made a full 360 degree trip through the constellations and returned to your starting point. This is called "Precession of the Equinoxes".

Now, if a modern astronomer on earth had been observing you and your environment, he could tell you the earth rotated once a day, and you would agree, and he could tell you that it rotated around the sun once each year, and you would agree. But if he then told you that you only observed your backward rotation through the constellations, because the earth's pole wobbled due to gravitational pull from the sun and moon (current explanation of precession), you would be completely perplexed. The motion you observed seems to be a type of long cycle "rotation", yet the explanation given is contrary to your observation. Who is right? You are!

If the earth wobbled so as to cause the pole to trace a 360 degree circle in the sky (which is not a rotation), it would be physically impossible to view the precession of the equinoxes (because 360 degree rotation is required to observe a 360 degree landscape). If the astronomer tells you that the poles not only wobbled but the earth also rotated then you must ask, "How was the extra rotation accounted for, was there an extra day in one of those years?" If he says, "No, you don't account for it, you just subtract it from the time calculation". You can rightfully say he is crazy! An extra day is time. It must either be added during the time it took to precess through the Zodiac, or it did not occur. Only one or the other scenario can exist.

In trying to reconcile, the two points of view (what you observed versus the amount of time it took to observe it) there is only one explanation:

The earth did not complete one extra rotation, which all the scientists and all their clocks failed to account for, but rather the sun and its entire solar system (your viewing platform) moved around in a huge circular pattern allowing your viewpoint to regress through the constellations without requiring any fundamental change in the measurement of time (rotations of the earth per year).

Further clarification

Theoretically, there are four ways to observe ourselves moving backward through the constellations. All involve rotation:

1. Look up, spin around and count through each of the 12 constellations (this assumes you can have an unobstructed view of the stars, meaning you may be required to see through the earth). This method utilizes "personal rotation."

2. Stay in a stationary position on the earth and look up at the sky for exactly 24 hours. You need not spin, the earth itself will spin for you so you may observe the constellations one by one (this assumes you can see the stars through daylight as well as nighttime hours). This method utilizes the "earths rotation on its own axis".

3. Stay in a stationary position on the earth and look up at the sky for exactly one year at the same time each night. As the earth goes along in its orbit around the sun it will slowly turn you to see the 360 degree view of the constellations at the rate of about 1 degree per night. (However in this case your viewpoint would move up and down through the ecliptic plane). This method uses the "earths rotation around the sun".

4. Finally, from our stationary point, only look at the sky once a year, at the time of the vernal equinox (doing it once a year at only the vernal equinox will filter out the up an down movement). According to today's scientists it will take 25,920 years* to allow our viewpoint to precess through all the constellations. They have not yet recognized that this long slow method of viewing all the constellations is also due to a grand "rotation" (our Sun and solar system taking us on a huge elliptical ride around local space) but that is exactly what is happening.

So in fact there is no physical precession at all, it is only an observed phenomenon caused by a long cycle movement of the sun and the earth and the rest of the solar system, which allows our viewpoint to precess around the Zodiac.

*In our next article we will talk about why the orbital cycle does not really take 25,920 years, the current calculated rate, but allowing for Keplers law (governing the speed of two bodies in orbit around a central mass), only takes 24,000 years.

Walter Cruttenden

walter@cruttendenpartners.com