Carlo Santagata
A careful study of Newton's PRINCIPIA reveals that, contrary to Galilei's findings, a heavy body falls more quickly than a light body. The difference in speed is so small that, even today, it cannot be detected in the terrestrial laboratory. For a planet rotating about the Sun, we show that the effect of this speed difference accumulates over time to produce a forward shift in the planetŐs orbit with respect to the Sun (i.e., to a heliocentric observer). It is shown that the residual forward shift of Mercury's perihelion can be explained in this way. With respect to the fixed stars, the effect of the orbiting mass of a planets is to induce a slow rotation of the Sun around the baricenter (center of mass) of the solar system, towards the vernal equinox direction. The period of this rotation is 24,900 years, close to the current estimate of the period of the precessional cycle (25,770 years).
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Understanding
Precession of the Equinox
Understanding
Precession of the Equinox
Evidence
our Sun may be part of a long cycle binary system
Walter
Cruttenden and Vince Dayes
A recent study of the phenomenon known as “Precession of the Equinox”
has led researchers to question the extent of lunisolar causation and to
propose an alternative solar system model that better fits observed data, and
solves a number of current solar system anomalies.
The
current (standard) model was theorized before there was any knowledge of the
life cycle of stars, or awareness that some stars are non-visible and could
thereby exert unseen gravitational influence. The standard model was developed
before knowledge of binary prevalence or any understanding of binary star
motions. Indeed the idea of a single sun with lunisolar wobble
causing precession was originally developed at a time when the Sun had only
recently replaced the Earth as the center of the solar system and the Sun was
thought to be fixed in space. Consequently, any theory to explain the observed
phenomenon of precession of the equinox had to be based solely on movement of
the Earth. Although, it has stood for almost 500 years with only minor
changes, it fails to answer a number of well-documented solar system anomalies:
Angular
Momentum:
Why
is there an anomalous distribution of angular momentum in the solar system --
why do the Jovian planets have most of the angular momentum when the Sun has
most of the mass?
Sheer
Edge:
Why, just beyond the Kuiper Belt, does our solar system seem to have an unusual
sheer edge to it?
This is surprising for a single sun system.
Sidereal
vs. Solar Time
:
Why is the delta (time difference) between a sidereal and solar day attributed
to the curvature of the Earth's orbit (around the Sun), but the delta between a
sidereal "year" and solar year attributed to precession?
Comet
Paths:
Why are many comet paths concentrated in a non-random pattern?
Acceleration
of Rate of Precession:
Why has the annual precession rate increased over the last 100 years? What
would cause it to slow down or speed up?
Equinoctial
Slippage:
Lunisolar precession theory would cause the seasons to shift were it not for a
concurrent slippage of the equinoctial point around the Earth's orbit path
(ecliptic). Lunar cycle equations contradict this motion. Why can't it be
explained with the current theory?
All
of these questions have been answered in different ways; e.g., angular momentum
may have disappeared due to an early solar magnetic force which has also
disappeared, the sheer edge may be due to a rogue planet that swept by our
solar system in fairly recent times but is now gone, etc. We would like to
propose a new model, based on a binary system, which provides a single and
greatly simplified solution to all these questions.
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