Daniel Joseph Min <Real.Min@Colorado.USA> wrote in message

"Richard DeLuca" wrote:

I'm not a complete stranger to celestial mechanics, being familiar and
comfortable with such concepts as nutation and cyclical changes in the
obliquity of the Ecliptic. However, I've never really understood the
precise *cause* of the Earth's precession, and why its period is so
long. My Google searches have not been particularly productive, and
some explanations I've found seem rather farfetched, even bizarre.
I have other questions about some peculiar little-known effects of
precession, but they should wait until I have a better understanding of
precession itself. Any help is much appreciated.

Ed

Daniel Joseph Min <Real.Min@Colorado.USA> wrote in message
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"Richard DeLuca" wrote:

I'm not a complete stranger to celestial mechanics, being familiar
and comfortable with such concepts as nutation and cyclical changes
in the obliquity of the Ecliptic. However, I've never really
understood the precise *cause* of the Earth's precession, and why
its period is so long. My Google searches have not been
particularly productive, and some explanations I've found seem
rather farfetched, even bizarre. I have other questions about some
peculiar little-known effects of precession, but they should wait
until I have a better understanding of precession itself. Any help
is much appreciated.

http://groups.google.com/ <- De-Kookified!!!1!!!!!!

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:05:46 +0000, Daniel Joseph Min wrote:

"Richard DeLuca" wrote:

I'm not a complete stranger to celestial mechanics, being familiar and
comfortable with such concepts as nutation and cyclical changes in the
obliquity of the Ecliptic. However, I've never really understood the
precise *cause* of the Earth's precession, and why its period is so
long. My Google searches have not been particularly productive, and
some explanations I've found seem rather farfetched, even bizarre.
I have other questions about some peculiar little-known effects of
precession, but they should wait until I have a better understanding of
precession itself. Any help is much appreciated.

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Whether or not you consider the fall of Autumn & Evening from the
Garden of Eden (circa 200,000 BC) "farfetched" and "bizarre" etc.,
it is nonetheless the actual *cause* of the significant obliquity
of the Earth's rotational axis to the Sun and resulting precession.

Now, I don't expect the predominantly-atheistic orthodox academia
to acknowledge this, much less to comprehend the truth of it. But
that doesn't change the fact that precession was and is caused by
the fallen man. When man fell, the whole Earth fell with him. See?
But of course you don't. Some decades from now, your descendants
will be singing an entirely different tune. Meanwhile, you'll just
write Judeo-Xians off ad hoc as "kooks" for want of comprehension.
Nothing personal, it's just the way it is, for now...

In Vigilance,
Daniel Joseph Min

It is also possible that there is no sign of trouble in the precession of
the equinox. It just happens. Are elliptical orbits signs of impending
doom? I don't think it. You know, Uranus and Venus rotate in a
direction opposite their revolution. Lighten up. Seriosly. It is "the
way things are".

Reason for Procession of the Equinox?

Some say the god Mithras is doing it.

"This, I propose, is the origin and nature of Mithras the cosmic
bull-slayer. His killing of the bull symbolizes his supreme power:
namely, the power to move the entire universe, which he had
demonstrated by shifting the cosmic sphere in such a way that the
spring equinox had moved out of Taurus the Bull."
-David Ulansey