David Calder Hardy's Cosmology
PLANET SYSTEM DISCOVERY REVEALS STRIKING SIMILARITIES
Remarks
Bode's Law demonstrates a clear mathematical pattern from Mercury to Uranus; why shouldn't this be normal throughout the universe? Also planets are virtually the rule in our system. Why wouldn't they be elsewhere as well?
There must be trillions of stars similar to our own with similar planet systems everywhere in the universe. The notion that our system is somehow unique would seem to hark back to ancient texts that suggest uniqueness. On the other hand, if our system, and indeed our planet, were to be a one off, doesn't that make it very precious indeed? Shouldn't we be aware of this to the point of placing extreme protection policies in place to make sure that it will be preserved for ever more?
No. Science is going to have to admit and tell the world that there are more similar systems out there than we could ever count. And this means that they are going to have to accept that using superlatives like unique, amazing, astounded and astonished to find, incredible and so on, is overdoing the thing. Discoveries are great and we need all the info we can get, but the universe displays certain actions and forces creating a miriad of results that will not be unique. We just haven't seen all the other examples yet.
If Bode's Law is seen to be working elsewhere, fine. It works here for 8 planets out of 9 so that is better odds than I every came near in Lotto. To me, that demonstrates that over the billions of years of our system's existence, very little outside interference has taken place capable of altering or ripping apart a very stable group of planets. The suggestion that Mercury had it's outer solid skin ripped off by a passing planet or something, revealing it's iron core, is pure fantasy. But Science is quite content to let the world believe that is what happened. Also that our moon was born of the collision or near collision of two planets or moons with earth that somehow or other dragged a great chunk of the Pacific out of the earth and some or all of the residue rolled up to become the moon. Well that event is without any superlative that I can think of, yet aren't there 30 odd moons in the solar system? Did they all have a similar beginning?
Science seems to be very ready to create plasticene theories that can be modified a bit when the pressure to do so comes on, and to be very protective of them when they are challenged. Big Bang is a theory and it cannot be proven, yet it remains firmly entrenched as if it were tried tested and true. So many other theories exist that are treated as truth. Why? It seems time to lift the shutters and open the minds to other possibilities. Search this site
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PLANET SYSTEM DISCOVERY REVEALS STRIKING SIMILARITIES
By John Gribbin
LONDON, from THE GUARDIAN -- The discovery of three planets orbiting a pulsar known as PSR B1257+12 has revealed a system with properties that almost exactly match those of the Inner Solar System, made up of Mercury, Venus and Earth. The similarities are so striking that it seems there may be a law of nature which ensures that planets always form in certain orbits and always have certain sizes; and it leads credence to the significance of a mathematical relationship that relates the orbits of the planets in our Solar System, which many astronomers have dismissed as mere numerology.
PSR B1257+12 is a rapidly spinning neutron star, containing slightly more matter than our Sun, packed into a sphere only about 10 kilometers across. As the star spins, it flicks a beam of radio noise around, like the beam of a lighthouse, producing regularly spaced pulses of radio noise detectable on Earth. It can only have been produced in a supernova explosion, long ago, which would have disrupted any planetary system the star possessed at the time. So the present planets associated with the pulsar are thought to have formed from the debris of a companion star also disrupted by the pulsar.
The three planets cannot be seen directly, but are revealed by the way in which they change the period of the pulsar's pulses as they orbit around it. There is enough information revealed in the changing pulses to show that the three planets have masses roughly equal to 2.98 times the mass of the Earth, 3.4 times the mass of the Earth and 1.5 per cent of the mass of the Earth. And they are spaced, respectively, at distances from the pulsar equivalent to 47 per cent the distance from the Earth to the Sun, 36 per cent of the Sun-Earth distance, and 19 per cent of the Sun- Earth distance.
Tsevi Mazeh and Itzhak Goldman, of Tel Aviv University, have pointed out (in a paper to be published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific) that the ratio of these distances, 1:0.77:0.4, is extremely close to the ratio of distances of the Earth, Venus and Mercury, which is 1:0.72:0.39.
And the masses of the three inner planets of the Solar System are one Earth mass, 82 per cent of the mass of the Earth, and 5.5 per cent of the mass of the Earth. In each case, two outer planets with roughly the same mass have an inner companion with a much smaller mass.
All this is doubly intriguing because for more then 200 years astronomers have puzzled over a relationship called Bode's law, which concerns the orbits of the planets in the Solar System. The law says that if you take the sequence 0, 3, 6, 12 ... (with each number after 3 twice the previous number in the sequence), add 4 to each number and divide by 10 you end up with the distances of the planets from the Sun in terms of the distance to the third planet (Earth, in the case of the Solar System). Bode's law works out as far as the orbit of Uranus, but nobody knows why; now, it seems that it also works for the planets of pulsar PSR B1257+12.
The indications are that there is a universal mechanism for the formation of planets around stars. If it works for systems as diverse as a pulsar and our Sun, the chances are that it works for all stars and that "Solar" Systems, very much like our own may be the rule, rather than the exception, among the stars of the Milky Way and the universe. Reprinted from AstroNet.
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