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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Subject: Posting from other groups: Solar system stability
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.194725.1076@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:47:25 GMT
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- >From: ref@CS.CMU.EDU (Robert Frederking)
- >Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space,sci.physics,sci.environment
- >Subject: Solar system stability (Was: averting doom)
- >Message-ID: <C031Kx.7CL.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- >Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 18:22:09 MET
- >Article-I.D.: cs.C031Kx.7CL.2
- >References: <JMC.92Dec29211051@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- >Reply-To: ref@cs.cmu.edu (Robert Frederking)
- >Organization: Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University
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- >In-Reply-To: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU's message of 29 Dec 92 21:10:51
- >Originator: ref@DHAKA.MT.CS.CMU.EDU
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- >
- >The latest issue of S&T mentions some recent work done using chaos
- >theory and large computers to see whether the solar system is stable.
- >Their finding (I forget who it was now) was that millimeter
- >perturbations in the orbits of the planets do cause chaotic changes in
- >the long run. The good news (for people who don't like chaotic
- >orbits) is that the amount of time it takes for something ``really
- >bad'' to become probable is on the order of a trillion years [i.e.,
- >longer than the solar system will exist in its present form anyway].
- >``Really bad'' is for a planet to be ejected, a collission, etc.
-
- Of course, this is uniformitarianistical bullshit; Velikovsky knew better,
- without needing computers or any knowledge of the subject...
- (S&T is Sky and Telescope, I guess)
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- "Every three months I tell all of the new recruits that they are supposed to
- stand here and not there to get their uniforms, but they just don't learn!"
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