Astrology A Pseudoscience : Part 3
When the first lockdown was declared, I started studying Astrology. I am a believer. I want to believe depending upon two factors:
1.Testability (logical, evidential, rational)
2. Reproducibility of the test. I found few confusions from astrology. Maybe people can help me.
1)Hubble telescope has revealed billion of stars and uncountable galaxies. The universe is growing every day. Then why only 27 stars will be considered to decide human destiny in astrology?
2) We know that lights from stars take average 4 to 5 years to reach the earth, then the journey of light from the star has started long before that is seen at the moment of birth, then why that star will be considered as the sun sign of the new born child? Maybe at the moment of birth that star is already dead? Then how a holy force from a star which does not exists affects human affairs?
3. The Navagraha in Astrology are Sun, Moon, Rahu, Ketu, etc. - Do you believe these are actual planets? But why astrology did not consider Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Volcano, etc. as a planet? Maybe they did not know about these at that time. I would request astrologers to update their equations soon.
4) Which force of celestial bodies affects human affairs? If it is gravity then the gravitational pull of the people in the room during your birth would affect you more than the gravitational pull of other planets in our solar system. By the Newton's equation the gravitational force is defined by Gxm1xm2/r^2 where m1 and m2 are the mass of the two bodies, r is the distance between two bodies and G is a constant around 6.674. By this above equation, at the time of your birth, the gravitational pull of Saturn to you is negligible compare to the gravitational pull of your mom to you. Why do not we take into account the position of your mother or the people who were standing in the room when you were born?
5) Natural disasters kill millions of people of all ages at once. everyone was not born at the same time, why do they die together even though they were not born together? Millions of people have died in the tsunami, not all of them are the same age, yet why all died together?
6) The Sun is available on the constellation of Libra from September 22nd to October 23rd, therefore, the Libra will be the sun sign for those people who were born during this period. But in 2021, between September 22 and October 23, the Sun exists on the Virgo constellation, not on the Libra. This is because as the earth rotates on its axis, and this rotation axis also moves. Astrology has not considered this because at that time people were not aware of the movement of the earth's rotating axis. If it is so how a miss-placed sun sign defines my destiny?
7) The earth-centered system is still the main basis of astrology. How does astrology function with such an earth-centered system?
Written by rourab
01th October Friday 2021
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