MR.Blueprint, on 06 December 2012 - 03:29 PM, said:
1st....... ANCIENT civilisations could know more bout the cosmos than us because the cosmos were different then and maybe more easier to observe
Nope. The cosmos wasn't particularly different a few thousand years ago. No ancient civilisation even managed to acquire a half-decent understanding of our solar system. No-one knew that Uranus, the third largest planet of the Solar System until the 17th century.
MR.Blueprint, on 06 December 2012 - 03:29 PM, said:
2nd the mayans couldve figured out the cycle of percession wit two stars and thats why they made the calender too end and dissappear maybe from hysteria of knowin too much
The Mayan calendar does not end. And they couldn't have figured out a cycle of precession, because they did not know of precession.
MR.Blueprint, on 06 December 2012 - 03:29 PM, said:
3rd how could we see a dead star thats not illuminated and has a huge orbit. bigger than our solar system..
Because we are not only using our eyes to see it. We can spot Black Holes (which are the only kind of dead stars) through looking for x-ray radiation and the signs its immense gravitational pull exerts on its surroundings.
MR.Blueprint, on 06 December 2012 - 03:29 PM, said:
do u know what causes big bangs? an exploding star can cause a big bang. which is really a lil bang in the universe we call it a big bang because its big to us
Nope. The Big Bang was a singular event that was the rapid expansion of all matter in the universe from a point of singularity. Of all matter, everything that makes up the billions and billions of stars, planets, even space itself. Compared to that, whatever stars do is insignificant.
MR.Blueprint, on 06 December 2012 - 04:00 PM, said:
i know its hard to believe but they knew atleast as much as we do now if not more...shid we thought the world was flat. we thought we were the center of the solar system at one point.
so we defiantly can say the mayans knew more than we did at those points....right?
because they knew the earth was round and the sun was the center of the universe
who to say what they knew that we dont know at this point?
You are wrong. The Maya did not know that the Earth was round, nor did they believe that the planets revolved around the Sun (an if they believed that the Sun was the centre of the universe, that would prove that they knew less than we do, because the Sun is just a minor star in an average galaxy, and not the centre of anything apart from our solar system). Unlike, I have to say, Indian, Greek and Hellenistic scientists. The Greeks figured out that the Earth was round by the 6th century BCE and proposed the first Heliocentric model in the 3rd century BCE.