btw, both venus and mercury have retrogrades frequently. the one venus has causes its path relative to us to form a pentagram. idk if you know pantographs, these are these funny little mechanical devices that let you draw various kinds of spirals depending on the ratio of gears in the pieces you roll around with the pen in a fixed place in the inner cog. mercury has a 5th harmonic to our motion relative to the sun and so it makes a shape that is like a flower or pentagram.
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i have seen a couple illustrations of planet orbits. always interesting how they are so clocklike...
if planets randomly exploded from a big bang, would they end up just having these patterns?
i don't know if the mercury retrograde affects anything, but i def know the full moon does.
oh nevermind, they end up like this just randomly. it's just how it works
i don't think it's random. i think it's a combination of mostly mass and secondarily magnetic fields.
the evidence of past events causing a total slip of the orientation of the earth's crust versus the rotational inertia and core magnetic field alignment suggests that magnetism, and electricity, have a more important effect on the configuration of solar systems than currently acknowledged.
the regularity has to do with their relative masses, and interactions between them. they are not as regular as you might think, over long periods because of the noise of their interaction. jupiter and saturn particularly alter the paths of orbits of the smaller, inner planets. i think also the way that in certain zones of distance from teh sun that smaller is more likely to get trapped in a narrow range than larger planets, that diverge more especially when they interact with each other.
in that, there is the reason why the asteroid belt formed between mars and earth, they are far more numerous, but their collective mass is between that of earth an mars.
why a bigger planet like earth gets into the goldilocks zone is not a mass dependent effect, also, i'm pretty sure it's because earth has an internal dynamo that converts gravity into a magnetic field, and the magnetic resonance dominates over the gravitic, because it makes earth more stable in its orbit due to magnetism instead of gravity.
i don't have a complete model in my mind for why the solar system is in its current configuration but those are my best guesses how earth is where it is, relative to the other planets.
the effect of magnetism in a long arc of time is key to this, and other than earrth, everything until jupiter has no internal dynamo.
the internal dynamo is also why earth is a habitable planet. without that magnetic field, the planet is flooded with interstellar and solar radiation that would destroy life, by breaking DNA integrity. this is why there IS life on mars, but it can't be macroscopic, or above the surface. there is water and life on mars, beneath the surface. we have only discovered hints at this.
the importance of a protective magnetic shield seem to be invisible to most astrophysicists as regards to viability for life... this is slowly changing, but it's a lot more important than mainstream science gives it credit for. it's also key to how we might travel off planet. without radiation shielding, spacecraft carrying living things will become sterile. i feel like the problem of magnetic shielding, and artificial gravity are also connected. like, if you can't artificially reduce the effect of mass on a spacecraft, as well as shield it from radiation, that both technologies are related somehow.
the importance of electricity and magnetism in space travel technology are, in my opinion, neglected. and i think that gravity can be influenced by the use of electrons via electromagnetic devices, in concert, in a way that is not yet understood.