Reflection lets astronomers trick time When a star system called Eta Carinae went on a weight-loss program in the 19th Century, it did so in spectacular style: in its 20-year “great eruption”, it was the second-brightest star in the sky, shed ten solar masses, and left echoes of light that have just been detected. The reflections described in this study in Nature …
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The "radiation wave" is already hitting us. That's the only way we can observe light or other forms of EM radiation: when it reaches us. If we can see it, it's already here.
In fact, the "radiation wave" hit us in 1838. That's the strong wave, direct from the source, as opposed to these much-attenuated indirect reflections to which the article is referring - and which have also already hit us.
Also, the Mayans made no such predictions about exploding stars, radiation waves, or any other great disaster befalling us at the end of the 13th baktun. The only thing they were expecting was the beginning of the 14th baktun to occur the next day.
In conclusion: you are a gullible buffoon with nowt but cottage cheese between your ears.
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"......................."and end up being the Maya and inventing this calendar?"
Which is then retrospectively patented by a well known mobile phone company in an attempt to corner the entire calender market throughout time. Thereafter they start to sue all calender makers from roughly 3000 years BC onwards claiming damages for irreparable harm.
Ra farted?
I find this statement interesting: "All *well educated* astronomers would have bet that they would find the spectrum of a 7,000 kelvin star.”. Do I detect a hint of bitterness? I wonder what Copernicus, Galileo, Einstein, Newton, etc. would have said to that. Those chaps were "thinking outside the box" ages before the corporate buzzword was invented.
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