To: snarks_when_bored
And just what is going to change in the next 40 million that hasn’t changed in the first 4.2 billion that’s going to cause the problem?
To: Anonymous Rex
Nothing. It’s just that a gravitational n-body system for n > 2 exhibits chaotic dynamics, and it’s possible that the system could move into a different part of the phase space just in the normal course of things.
7 posted on
04/23/2008 9:12:02 AM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: Anonymous Rex
Small gravitational perturbations can produce really big orbit shifts over time. The solar system is a quasi-stable system at present, but it can become chaotic at pretty much any time...
To: Anonymous Rex
Well, the moon moves away from the earth by about an inch or half inch per annum. Without the moon we will lose our stable rotation and perhaps wobble into mars. (Bush's fault)
10 posted on
04/23/2008 9:15:07 AM PDT by
Camel Joe
(liberal=socialist=royalist/imperialist pawn=enemy of Freedom)
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