Chaos in the solar system
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From: BURT on 13 Jul 2010 15:17 On Jul 12, 7:41 pm, Huang <huangxienc...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Jul 12, 6:30 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 7/11/10 11:16 PM, GogoJF wrote: > > > > On Jul 11, 11:13 pm, BURT<macromi...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > >> It would mean solar system crash by planetary alignment gravity. But > > >> of course there is no chaos only predetermined order in a stable solar > > >> system. > > > >> Mitch Raemsch > > > > The solar system has to be a most precise instrument in order to > > > continue to exist. > > > True in the short term. > > Chaos in the solar system. Yeah, I suppose it's quite likely to be > there, but making an observation of such a thing seems tricky. The > place you'd expect to see it is in a Poincare' slice of planetary > orbital trajectories. To build up enough data to confirm such a thing > (via observation) would take many thousands of years. Probably easier > to find it in turbulence or molecules or someplace where things are > movin a little faster. > > I really wonder how chaos and perturbation theory can go together in > astrophysics. Say you had a nice chaotic attractor going and things > get perturbed by an asteroid - what then. Either it continues the same > pattern, morphs, or goes non-chaotic. Feigenbaum's constant or > something similar may have some application for that. There is no disorder in order. Gravitational range would eliminate most of such chaos. Mitch Raemsch |