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57 Precision Planetary System
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The system of planets surrounding our sun is structured in a very precise manner. However, even very minor changes (which occur inevitably) lead to situations in which some planets could come in a chaotic orbit after only 10 million years. This means that sooner or later the planets would be lost in the expanse of the universe or would crash into the sun. It is by no means certfied that the solar system exists scince 4.5 billion years.
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Since Newton discovered the laws of gravity in 1683, we know that the planets orbit around the sun in a very stable manner. They behave as stable as a clock. Moreover, the various distances to the sun follow a mathematical rule (1). It is also remarkable that Venus has a retrograde (opposing) self-rotation , contradicting the dust disc theory.
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Long-term stability:
Doubts on the long-term stability of our solar system arose as the computer specialist Gerald Jay Sussman and astrophysicist Jack Wisdom proved using a special computer built just for such calculations that the planet Pluto had already assumed a chaotic orbit as a result of interference from other plants in our solar system.
Sussman and Wisdom simulated the motion of all the planets and ascertained that the smaller planets should assume chaotic orbits after approx. 50 million years (2). These calculations were confirmed by the French theoretician Jacques Laskar who obtained nearly the same results in 1990 independently of Sussman and Wisdom (3) (4).
The assumption that the planets in our solar system have been orbiting stably for 4.5 billion years (the alleged age of the solar system), therefore requires critical consideration (5).
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References:
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Henry M. Morris, Men of Science, Men of God, Creation-Life Publishers, San Diego, California, 1982, P. 4446. |
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Gerald Jay Sussman und Jack Wisdom, Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System, Science 257, 3 July, 1992, P. 5662. |
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Jacques Laskar, A numerical experiment on the chaotic behaviour of the Solar System, Nature 338, 16 March, 1989, P. 237238. |
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Jacques Laskar, The chaotic motion of the Solar System: A numerical estimate of the size of the chaotic zones, Icarus 88, December 1990, P. 266291. |
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Hansruedi Stutz, Chaos im Sonnensystem, factum January 1993, P. 43. | |
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