Jokodo
Veteran Member
The planets, especially large planets like Jupiter, Neptune, et al are huge and quite massive. The forces to move them are truly immense. There is no way to make them move around as per IV et al. And then settle down in their present orbits. It is utterly impossible, scientifically speaking. Velikovsky didn't realize this, but astrophysicists do.
Velikovsky solely mentioned orbital change or exchange between Mars and Venus. Jupiter was affected as the birth place of Venus or as being hit by Venus.
On the other hand, no one has even the minimum evidence of how planets formed the solar system, how they ended in their orbits. Last observed body out of our solar system came in a different angle of traveling, "hit" the orbital force created by the Sun -because gravity is a force and this force is caused by motion in action- and this body "bounced" and went away. This event didn't take "millions of years" to happen.
With this observation made, I can state that space-time is crap to the square, my position is 100% correct that gravity is a force, and that in base of how gravity can affect the orbit of planets their positions can change at random by the effect of any circumstance which includes collision between planets.
Check the animation in the link, the traveling of the foreign body trapped sporadically by the force of gravity caused by the Sun's motion, and causing the change of direction of that body.
A complete different scenario could happen if the body came from an opposite direction to the gravitational direction generated by the Sun, in this case this body should have encountered some problems to continued its path.
https://scitechdaily.com/a-small-object-a2017-u1-from-deep-space-enters-our-solar-system/
Where did you get the idea that the planets were captured by the sun from interstellar space?
As far as I'm aware, that's not what anyone has argued for at least 300 years!
You can't explain in base of your theories why earth is slowing, a current event, and you pretend to know how and when other planets changed their orbits... give me a break...
The earth is slowing in it's rotation, not its orbit, and the process is very well understood: It transfers some of its momentum to the moon, which is moving away at a pace of (currently) 3.8cm a year. The mechanism by which this happens is tidal friction, and the amount varies over geological time dependent on the configuration of the continents, as the shape of the oceans and shorelines determines the propagation and breaking of the tidal bulge. We're currently in a high friction, high momentum transfer period.
(There actually a minor mismatch between the observed rate of the moon's recession and calculated amount of tidal friction on the one hand, and the slowing down of earth's rotation on the other hand. This is at least partially explained by an ongoing process of post-glacial rebound, that is the earth becoming more spherical as the polar regions are relaxing back towards a new equilibrium position now that the ice caps are gone (where "now" refers to the last 10-12,000 years). This process contributes an accelerating component (think about moving in on a roundabout) and thus slows the deceleration. Another contributing factor might be processes in the interior of the earth.)
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/472/2196/20160404
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/11/e1500679
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X16302370