Quote (Torm1 @ Apr 1 2011 01:55am)
Its difficult to descibe it, but when you're close enough to the ecliptic plane, it looks black, which is what the Mayans spoke of as "The Dark Rift"
Either the Sun or the Earth, will go through it first.
If the sun goes through first, it will look as though it disappeared into the blackness. At the rate of travel, it will take 3 days for the Earth to catch up, (roughly) depending on the angle we hit it at. (This explains the 3 days of darkness spoken of)... When we "Come out on the other side" we will see the sun again. Either way, the sun will fade from view for 3 days, unless of course we are lined up just right so that we hit it parallel with the sun, but according to the Mayans, (who have predicted our modern day eclipses to the hour) we will have the 3 days of dark.
Its really hard to explain, I'd like to make a 3d model so that people could understand it a little easier, its quite simple actually when you fully grasp it.
Okay, fine. I'll tell you why that's absolutely not true. At all. Even a little bit.
Space is INCREDIBLY empty, and the "galactic plane" that you're talking about is nothing but a line that we humans invented to help describe the galaxy, in much the same way that the Equator isn't really a physical line so much as something we humans use to demarcate the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. So, even if we were to pass through it soon (the last time I checked with NASA, we're not due to pass through it for thousands of years), there would literally be NOTHING in between the Sun and the Earth to make it momentarily dark.
I have a feeling that you're getting this idea from some website that does not have a foundation based on anything that exists in reality.