The galactic plane, or how we see the Milky Way galaxy, appears as an elongated S in the night sky. To the Maya this was the great serpent or snake, their deity. In 2012 as our solar systems crosses the galactic plane the great serpent will no longer be visible. Basically to the Maya their God disappears. How could they be anything but terrified by such an event?
However, there is more to this. The crossing of galactic plane has been “linked” scientifically to such events as an increase in solar particles which “heat up” the sun producing more radiation. It is also theorized that the Earth’s magnetic field could collapse for a period of time before restoring itself in a reversed polarity (north becomes south according to a compass).
These two events, would have devastating effects on life on Earth. The increase in solar radiation coupled with the reduction of the Earth’s magnetic field, which protects the Earth from most of harmful solar radiation would result in a heating of the Earth. This has already begun. Global warming is happening, but the real cause may not be green house gases, but degradation in our magnetic field and increased solar activity.
The loss of the magnetic field would also destroy most of the satellite communications and interfere with most forms of telecommunications. The likely result would be long term disruptions in world wide communications and transportation. We could be thrown back to the dark ages technologically for several thousand years until the pole reversed itself and the magnetic field restored.
Given how quickly mankind reverts to barbarism in the absence of social order. Prolonged world wide famine created by draught and lack of technological aids would inevitably cause mankind to deteriorate into something far less civilized than we are now.
I won’t even get into the possibility that gravitational effects maybe affected by this occurrence as well, which could result in asteroids changing orbits resulting in more impacts with the Earth. Even a single impact event of a significant nature would have a catastrophic affect on the world’s climate, leading to the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Mass extinctions have been linked by Cambridge scholars geologically and through astrophysics to times where the Earth has crossed the galactic plane. It is not as far fetched as one may think. It will all happen in one day, no. In fact it already has begun and events will occur over several thousands of years. How we deal with them will determine how civilized we have actually become.
