How to destroy an astronomical insight
- From: oriel36 <kelleher.gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:18:37 -0800 (PST)
One of the nicer refinements of Copernican reasoning is a ratio that
Kepler noticed between the length of an orbital period around the Sun
and its distance from the Sun
"But it is absolutely certain and exact that the ratio which exists
between the periodic times of any two planets is precisely the ratio
of the 3/2th power of the mean distances, i.e., of the spheres
themselves; provided, however, that the arithmetic mean between both
diameters of the elliptic orbit be slightly less than the longer
diameter. And so if any one take the period, say, of the Earth, which
is one year, and the period of Saturn, which is thirty years, and
extract the cube roots of this ratio and then square the ensuing ratio
by squaring the cube roots, he will have as his numerical products the
most just ratio of the distances of the Earth and Saturn from the
sun.
1 For the cube root of 1 is 1, and the square of it is 1; and the cube
root of 30 is greater than 3, and therefore the square of it is
greater than 9. And Saturn, at its mean distance from the sun, is
slightly higher than nine times the mean distance of the Earth from
the sun." Kepler
That should be easy enough for anyone to understand until the
empiricists got hold of it -
"That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the five
primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the
earth about the sun, are in the sesquiplicate proportion of their mean
distances from the sun." Newton
It will be quite a struggle to get the geological effects of
rotational dynamics up and running with numbskulls who are just as
eagerly intent to deny any involvement out of incapacity,
incompetence or just plain dullness of mind.Their mathematical jargon
kills any discussion that would normally be carried out between adults
and while events did conspire to produce the worst possible
conditions,the clarity of Kepler and the utter nonsense of Newton
being an example,it cannot be left to chance that the situation will
resolve itself.
Those who want to remain with convection cells are committed to a
stationary Earth and that is the one conclusion that eists.
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