Feed: Dr. Myron Evans
Posted on: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 3:48 AM
Author: metric345
Subject: Effect of x on Orbital Structure
| It is clear that very small changes in x can result in dramatic changes in orbit for a given ellipticity epsilon and half right latitude alpha. It is truly amazing that all of this results from the addition of one term to the Newtonian gravitational potential. So are orbits what we thought they were? It seems that a very slight pertubation can induce a massive orbital shift. This is certainly true mathematically, the precessing conical sections have an incredibly rich structure wholly unknown until now. None of this was even hinted at by the Einstein theory. The subject is similar to nonlinear and fractal physics. The first conical section to be used as an orbit was the ellipse, (x = 1, epsilon < 1). Kepler discovered this for the orbit of Mars using the data of Brahe. Later it was found that the ellipse precesses (x slightly greater than or less than one). The precession in the solar system is a few arcseconds a century, but is much larger in binary pulsars and similar. We now know, very suddenly in a classic paradigm shift, that the precessing orbit can evolve into an amazingly rich pattern simply by varying x. So if orbits are conical sections (as accepted for several hundred years) there may be orbits in astronomy which have these amazing properties. A book for CISP with all these orbits classified would be timely and in my opinion, very important for mathematics and physics. The Royal Society is being informed of these new results automatically and already knows about them.
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