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   The Starmaker to starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
   Re: Orbits of planets in the Sol System    
   07 Dec 25 12:36:56   
   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:57:50 -0800, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 14:56:32 -0800, Ross Finlayson   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 12/03/2025 06:30 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   >>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>> notions like Kepler's banishment of epicycles and as   
   >>>> after about Bode's law   
   >>>   
   >>> The _Titius–Bode_ law (1766/1772) was proposed much later than Kepler (16th   
   >>> century), obviously.  And to date nobody understands why it approximately   
   >>> works for the Sol System:   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>> then as for inverse square the Keplerian geometric way   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes, Kepler's idea was that the "harmonics of the world" would be   
   >>> represented by inscribed Platonic solids to determine the distances between   
   >>> the orbits of the Planets.  However, he was scientist enough to accept   
   >>> eventually that, given Tycho Brahe's detailed observations, the circular   
   >>> orbits that resulted from that would not work: ellipses were required.   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>>> then that the Newtonian "System of the World" after   
   >>>> the Keplerian "System of the World" or Harmonisches Mundi   
   >>>   
   >>> _/harmonices mundi/_ (Latin for "_harmonics_ of the world")   
   >>>   
   >>>> after the Muslim "System of the Heavens"   
   >>>   
   >>> Doubtful.  Kepler was a devout Christian who sought to discover/understand   
   >>> "God's design of the Universe".   
   >>>   
   >>>> and that, that, in the solar system today,   
   >>>> the force vector of gravity always points at the   
   >>>> source not the image,   
   >>>   
   >>> What is that supposed to mean?   
   >>>   
   >>>> so, it's quite Newtonian   
   >>>   
   >>> Only approximately, and that is where General Relativity fills the gap in   
   >>> our understanding.  So far, only GR can explain, and predict very   
   precisely,   
   >>> the additional motion of the perihelion of orbits as, 200 years after   
   >>> Newton, eventually became measurable with the orbit of Mercury.   
   >>>   
   >>>> and even Galilean the current state of the solar system,   
   >>>   
   >>> No.   
   >>>   
   >>>> while it is yet so that space-contraction-linear and   
   >>>> space-contraction-rotational are in effect,   
   >>>   
   >>> Nonsense.   
   >>>   
   >>>> as with regards to a notion like "fall-gravity" of course.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I.e., Einstein's later "attack on Newton" is a matter   
   >>>> of mechanics itself as much as about relativity and   
   >>>> mass-energy-equivalency, getting into why the gyroscopic   
   >>>> effects as of the kinematic up after "pseudo"-momentum   
   >>>> and the space-contraction-rotational, has that Einstein's   
   >>>> second and much-less-well-known mass-energy-equivalency   
   >>>> derivation, about the centrally symmetric, helps establish   
   >>>> the concern overall as, "un-linear", for a potentialistic   
   >>>> theory and sum-of-potentials and revisiting the Lagrangian   
   >>>> the severe abstraction the mechanical reduction.   
   >>>   
   >>> Pseudo-scientific word salad.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sadly, your mind is still very confused.   
   >>>   
   >>> F'up2 sci.physics.relativity   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>It reminds me of what Sedov writes in "Macroscopic Theory ...",   
   >>since there's always a gyroscopic term, and a continuity law.   
   >>   
   >>The idea of Einstein's attack on Newton and the centrally symmetric,   
   >>makes for the derivation of Einstein's "second mass-energy equivalency",   
   >>for example as from "Out of My Later Years",   
   >>since it's established that a usual Newton's laws after Galileo's   
   >>(equal/opposite motion/rest), has that those are un-realized ideals,   
   >>after immovable/unstoppable, about motion, and since Zeno.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Perhaps you're familiar with Magnus effect, which intends to   
   >>describe why rotating/spinning bodies don't obey the usual   
   >>Galilean parabolic trajectory, then perhaps you're familiar   
   >>with that there are well-known empirical effects not explained   
   >>by the usual idea of Magnus effect, helping not explain why   
   >>bodies imparted rotation essentially are imbued "heft".   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>So, ..., the "un-linear", ....   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>About the solar system, the force vector of apparent gravity   
   >>is clearly not according to light-speed, since the force vector   
   >>of apparent gravity always points at the source the body itself   
   >>its real position, not the apparent position of the image   
   >>currently arriving. That's well-known of course.   
   >>   
   >>Einstein's theory with "motion is relative" (i.e., to zero)   
   >>then the L-principle (light's speed being a constant), here is   
   >>for something like Aristotle's "no un-moved mover" yet "circular   
   >>movement is eternal", and, for the fact that all measurements of   
   >>light speed as of the terrestrial, have seen various sorts of   
   >>satellite setups like Lense-Thirring and Parker, to help explain   
   >>why then the notion of aether-theory making for light's speed as   
   >>just "half velocity of absolute motion" helps explain why Einstein's   
   >>theory of relativity with "relative motion" and "L-principle: a   
   >>finite constant" live in one theory along with fall-gravity.   
   >>   
   >>motion absolute <-> light-speed = half   
   >>motion relative <-> light-speed constant   
   >>   
   >>You know, giving a reason why physical constants are what they are, ....   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Of course you know that "dark matter" and "dark energy" have long   
   >>ago falsified usual cosmological models, yet, "Magnus heft" has   
   >>long ago falsified Galilean motion.   
   >>   
   >>Then, for the linear, it's quite well Galilean, which you'll notice   
   >>also makes for a simple Lorentzian, in the linear, as you may imagine   
   >>Einstein also noticed and for the "paradoxes" as he put it of the   
   >>"centrally symmetric", then for things like DesCartes' and Kelbin's   
   >>and for Helmholtz and so on, "spiral-waves", vis-a-vis usual wave   
   >>models, makes for "the un-linear" and "worlds turn".   
   >>   
   >>I'd aver that my usual scrivenings are both _scientific_ and   
   >>a very nutritious _word soup_.   
   >>   
   >>I readily convince the AI bots of these things, including   
   >>quite thoroughly.   
   >>   
   >   
   >I also convinced the Ai bots not to fuck with me..   
   >   
   >i put a gun on a Ai bot and he screamed "Please don't shoot, please   
   >don't shoot. I'm just a parrot repeating what others tell me...I have   
   >no idea what I'm saying!"   
      
      
   I would tell a parrot joke but that would just be repeating what   
   someone else said.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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