Earth’s Precession cycles

In the previous chapters we have shown the length of certain types of days and years, and how they are connected to each other. There was however one component I just mentioned without any further explanation (yet). I made e.g. a reference to the length of the Axial precession (Great year) to be 23,520 years, Inclination precession to be 101,920 years and the length of a Great-Great-Year to be 305,760 years. How did I came up with these statements and related numbers? Let’s focus on the answers in this chapter.

First of all let me explain what I mean with a new term called Great-Great-Year.

1. What is a Great-Great-Year?

   The term Great-Great-Year is my tribute to the all scientist who contributed to all knowledge we have gained so far about life and especially about space. In my view science should sometimes use more common terms that are catchy and understandable for the mass. So instead of lunisolar precession, let’s get rid of it and choose: Axial precession. Instead of Precession of the ecliptic, Inclination precession. And really choose one term. Why are there that many terms for the same (see appendix)?

   The term is a direct reference to the discoverers of the Great Year (opens in a new tab) which shows as the length of axial precession. I have added one extra “Great” to make it clear the length of this cycle is even greater. Without explaining the exact length yet, it is in my view a period where 13 clockwise cycles of Axial Precession meet 3 counter clockwise cycles of Inclination Precession.

2. Why would the Great-Great-Year have a 13 to 3 ratio?

   Why in the ratio 13 to 3? To be honest, I do not know but if you look in nature you see these kind of numbers popping up all the time. I have already shown in the first chapter the Venus pattern showing in the 5, 8, 13 ratio. The ratio 21 to 34 is showing in sunflowers, the structure of DNA molecules (34 angstroms by 21 angstroms per cycle) and the ratio 8 to 13 shows up in the structures of the pineapple.

   

   If you have a balanced system, which I think our solar system is, you automatically end up in the Fibonacci sequence.

   ”The Fibonacci (opens in a new tab) sequence appears consistently throughout the cosmos, prompting deep philosophical contemplation. Whether witnessed in the spirals of galaxies, fractal patterns on coastlines, or recurring motifs in art, this sequence suggests an underlying order or rhythm. ”

   Normally, at least till so far, the Fibonacci sequence only shows on physical objects and not in timelines. What actually triggered me was this paper (opens in a new tab). It shows the precession cycles might be more or less connected (1/25,770 – 1/68,000 ≈ 1/41,000). This was revolutionary information to me and thinking about it, it made a lot of sense. I can’t imagine a perfect system like our solar system not having a real pattern. If it was just random numbers working against each other, it would be instable. And if it was instable, we would not have been here. Our solar system must really have a pattern!

3. What is then the length of the Great-Great-Year?

   At this moment in the book, I can’t fully explain it yet because also the moon and planets are involved (chapter 8 and 9). But what I can tell you, it is related to the perihelion/ winter solstice alignment in 1246 AD, the length of the precession cycles, the duration of the orbital period of the major planets and Moon and what is shown on historic temperature graphs. In chapter 11 I will elaborate on it. If you are curious you can already have a look at the Excel TAB “Chapter 2” for more details. I will just start to name the numbers and hopefully this will give an understandable explanation along the way.

   • The length of the Great-Great-Year is 305,760 / 1 (Fibonacci) = 305,760 years

   This is the largest cycle which e.g. shows on historic temperature/ CO2 graphs.

   Until now they mostly talk about a visible 100k year temperature cycle according to reconstructed geologic temperature records BUT this period is clearly missing in the Milankovitch cycles (opens in a new tab). The way they try to explain it (although there are discussions about it), is this 100k year period is explained in the eccentricity cycle. But then they end up in difficulties because orbital eccentricity has a theoretically cycle of 100k AND 400K year. And the 400K year cycle is missing in the temperature records. So it can’t be both right. More info can be found in this paper (opens in a new tab) and this paper (opens in a new tab) which explains it a bit deeper and in my view this is the MAIN driver for the climate.

   If you look at it from a little more distance, the 100k year cycle more or less looks like the currently experienced theoretically 112k year period of Apsidal precession. This 112k year is actually EXPERIENCED. The true movement across time is actually “just” 101,920 years, so if you zoom out, there is a 305K year cycle visible in the historic temperature records: Three times the Inclination precession duration of each 101,920 years.

   NOTE: Earth’s climate might also be impacted by Sun cycles, volcano eruptions, meteor impacts, fires, environmental impact humans, etc. The main driver is however the orbit of the HELION POINT around CENTER.

4. What are the lengths of other type of precession movements?

   Now we have shown the length of the Great-Great-Year, together with the Fibonacci sequence we can determine all other durations.

   • The inclination precession of Earth against ICRF has a duration of 305,760 / 3 (Fibonacci) = 101,920 – counter clockwise.
   • The inclination precession of Earth against Ecliptic has a duration of 305,760 / 5 (Fibonacci) = 61,152 years – counter clockwise.
   • The axial precession of Earth has a cycle with a duration of 305,760 / 8 (Fibonacci) = 38,220 years – clockwise.
   • The axial precession of Earth is due to Earth orbit around CENTER with a duration of 305,760 / 13 (Fibonacci) = 23,520 years – clockwise.
   • Combining the duration of the inclination precession and the axial precession, results in the apsidal cycle of 305,760 / 16 = 19,110 years – counter clockwise.

   There are actually only two movements which are causing all these numbers: Axial and Inclination precession.

5. The Axial precession

   The Axial precession has a duration of 23,520 years and is the reason the axis of earth – currently pointing to Polaris – will move from Polaris to Vega and back to Polaris again AND the Axial Cycle shows a duration of 38,220 years.

   NOTE: Earth on it’s path of Axial precession – which I call the Earth Precession Orbit (EPO) - is Clockwise, but the movement from Polaris to Vega and back to Polaris again is counter clockwise circle.

   NOTE: I have added the location of The Orbit Center already in this picture. In the previous chapter we have shown the distance of Earth to CENTER to be 408,451.25 km. The location of The Orbit Center is however not in a straight line to the Sun. It needs to be slightly tilted. See chapter 12 for further details.

   

   Additionally because of this Axial precession cycle the zodiac seem to move backwards in time if you look at it as if you were standing on Earth. That is however an illusion because what actually happens is looks more like this:

   

   In this animation it shows the axial precession movement as experienced IF EARTH WAS IN THE CENTER (Which is not correct. The TOC is). The real movement is Earth moving around CENTER and since the HELION POINT is orbiting CENTER in opposite direction, they meet each other every 19,110 years and therefore the eccentricity of Sun-Earth distance changes.

6. The Inclination precession

   The Inclination precession has a duration of 101,920 years against ICRF and 61,152 years against Ecliptic

   In below picture I have visualized a little over 1 cycle for the HELION POINT to move around CENTER. We start with location 0 as a point in the sky where the perihelion/aphelion meet one of the solstices, number 1 being the next where they meet again (every 19,110 years) and move all the way to 5.3333 for one Inclination precession cycle of 101,920 years to be completed. NOTE: 3 * 5.3333 = 16 which is the number we mentioned before as 305,760 / 16 = 19,110 years.

   

   Below is a picture of the movement of the HELION POINT as experienced from Earth. Due to Earth’s movement around CENTER the eccentricity changes and therefore we experience it as the BLUE pattern.

   

   

   In PURPLE you see the dates where Inclination precession meets Axial precession (see date 1246-06-14).

   In GREEN the current date and Inclination. In year 23,541 AD we will reach the maximum and in year 74,501 AD it is 0 again. This inclination tilt compared to the stars stays fixed. The Inclination values are explained in the next chapter (+/- 1.2555°, from 0 to 2.511°).

   NOTE there are only 16 FIXED PURPLE POINTS in the sky compared to the fixed stars where EVERY TIME the inclination precession meets axial precession on its 305,760 year cycle! It is a 16 spoke wheel of time!

   NOTE this does not mean automatically the experienced Inclination precession or Axial precession or Apsidal precession is always the same across time. These are values which are coming out as average values. The reason why there could be small differences experienced on Earth is because the Axial and Inclination tilt also work upon each other.

7. The Inclination precession meets Axial precession

   Every 19,110 years the Inclination precession meets the Axial precession FULL CYCLE (so from e.g. winter solstice to e.g. winter solstice). The last time this happened for the summer solstice - as experienced on Earth - was in 1246 (JD 2176324)

   

   I found a picture on the internet which I modified to reflect this Apsidal Cycle movements.

   

8. How do these two movements look like from Earth / ICRF?

   It might be very hard to grasp so I have created two animations which should give a good idea what the difference is between how these movements are experienced from Earth and how they are experienced in space (ICRF).

   You can also just have a look at the 3D model. Go to chapter 14 to see it in real life. But I will explain it with two GIF’s

   The first animation is how we experience the precession movements on Earth. You see the HELION POINT moving counter clockwise in time. This movement is showing the shifting perihelion/ aphelion dates. At the same time the zodiac is also moving counter clockwise. It looks very chaotic.

   

   But if you change the viewpoint by looking at our solar system with a birds-eye-view (ICRF view) it is actually very organized as can be seen in the second animation.

   

   You see the HELION POINT moving counter clockwise in time. At the same time Earth is orbiting CENTER moving clockwise. They meet each other every 19,110 years FULL CYCLE so in total 16 times. The points however meet each other 32 times (at aphelion and at perihelion).

I hope you see the bigger picture of all movements that are happening around us by now. They are all related and work upon each other based upon the Fibonacci sequence time-cycles.

All above mentioned numbers, year lengths, degrees, etc. are all in the Excel sheet and are taken as input to the 3d dummy universe model. This is therefore NOT just some astrophysical, theoretically model. It is fully in line with the latest insights of scientific measurements/ numbers of Obliquity, Eccentricity, etc.

Let’s focus at those parameters in the next chapters.

We truly live in a geo-heliocentric universe!