One Moment in Time: The Winter Solstice Seen from Newgrange
Deep inside the world’s oldest known building, every year, for only as much as 17 minutes, the sun — at the exact moment of the winter solstice — shines directly down a long corridor of stone and illuminates the inner chamber at Newgrange.
Newgrange was built 1,000 years before Stonehenge and also predates the pyramids by more than 500 years.
Celestial mechanics is not my thing. But my limited knowledge says the position of the heavens is constantly moving. Is 5000 years just a millisecond of time in the grand scheme of things? If something was actually built to capture that brief occurrence from way back when, can one expect it to still be perfectly aligned today?
Whaddaymean Whypeepo? Haven't you heard? - It was Africans who built everything in Europe before the evil whites stole it all. And Alfred the Great was a Zulu. And on and on and on ...
Never knew of this building. Thank man
ReplyDeleteThat is truly amazing!
ReplyDeleteCelestial mechanics is not my thing. But my limited knowledge says the position of the heavens is constantly moving. Is 5000 years just a millisecond of time in the grand scheme of things? If something was actually built to capture that brief occurrence from way back when, can one expect it to still be perfectly aligned today?
ReplyDeleteI don't know. I'm just thinking out loud.
Is 5000 years just a millisecond of time in the grand scheme of things?
DeleteYes, it's a flash of time
While the position of the heavens is always moving, the position of the earth in relation to the sun is a pretty consistent pattern.
DeleteI miss GVL, keep him in my prayers. Thanks.
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Yes. Hard to believe one year ago last Christmas he was still with us. He died one week after my best friend died, and just as fast.
DeleteBless his memory.
He was someone to be treasured indeed. A man who saw the light with a gift for imaginative composition.
DeleteAnother magnificent monument built by Whypeepo. Must be destroyed.
ReplyDeleteWhaddaymean Whypeepo? Haven't you heard? - It was Africans who built everything in Europe before the evil whites stole it all. And Alfred the Great was a Zulu. And on and on and on ...
DeleteWe wuz kangz n sheeeeeit !
DeleteThanks for sharing this. I miss reading Gerard’s blog.
ReplyDeleteI wrote my brother about this article. He wrote back saying that he and his wife had visited Newgrange. He said it is an amazing place.
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