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Solar System oscillates up and down Relative to Galactic Plane?

Why does the solar system oscillate up and down every 70 million years, relative to the galactic plane? Is there a scientific reason for this effect? And also, are we currently going up or down and how many years until the direction changes?

One more question. Our solar is also tilted at about 90° relative to the galactic ecliptic. Is there a reason for this also?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There are hypothesis on these phenomenons but it may be far from the truth.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I rather have by no potential heard of this "bobbing", and that i strongly suspect that our image voltaic equipment does not "bob" with appreciate to the galactic equator. to realize this, 2 opposing forces might could be appearing upon it. probably, our image voltaic equipment is travelling by way of area in a on the instant line, merely marginally (study: infrequently in any respect) plagued by the gravity of neighboring stars. If we are, certainly, travelling in a on the instant line, then merely a million of three issues may well be real: a million) we are progressively drawing near the galactic equator 2) we are progressively increasing our distance from the galactic equator 3) we are travelling in a line it is exactly parallel with the galactic equator - a state so unbelievable that it is discounted outright it is risk-free to anticipate that the "galactic equator" strikes greater slowly than our image voltaic equipment - in different words, that we modify place greater at as quickly as than the entire galactic equator. for this reason it is form of specific, using no longer something greater effective than good judgment, that the sunlight does not "bob" with appreciate to the galactic equator. Having suggested all that, after re-examining your question *lower back*, i think that what you meant became "the galactic center". lower back, the galaxy is shifting by way of area, yet we are shifting with it, and progressively outward from the middle. That the galactic center would contain a black hollow is mere conjecture (although consistent with what all of us be conscious of of black holes). That this theoretical black hollow would desire to be a wormhole is *extremely* no longer likely. To the terrific of my understanding (admittedly dated), the sole way for a black hollow to theoretically form a wormhole is for it to be donut-formed and rotating. you're transforming into observed that there are merely some huge donut-formed products interior the universe. great hundreds tend to form a ball shape because of the fact of their huge gravity. and that i won't for the existence of me think of what any of this would *probable* could do with 2012 or the Mayan calendar thingy. Jim, B.S. in Physics, John Carroll college

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