6/4/02 6:11:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Kent, some more info
Apparently, a quantized structure of our solar system is not such a novel
idea
after all. There are 3,000 Google references for
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22solar+system%22+bode
and about 1,500 for
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22solar+system%22+quantized
[..] http://www.n-t.org/tpe/ng/uss.htm
Already more than two centuries the formula of Titsius- Bode [6] (1772) for
planetary distances are in a center of attention of the researchers, however
its
secret while remains not open. In spite of the fact that the values of distances
differ a little from calculated with formula, due to it the asteroid belt
between
Mars and Jupiter was retrieved, and Adams and Lever'e used it by search of
Neptune.
The sense of this formula became clear after the rise of quantum mechanics
(1915).
Distances of planets up to the Sun are expressed in this formula through
an ordinal
number of a planet that means only one â quantization!
So, the solar System is
quantized?!
[..]
[..] http://www.grantchronicles.com/astro30.htm
Bodeâs Law is a mathematical concept for predicting planetary
distances in this
solar system. The formula was developed by Johann D. Titus, a German
Mathematician
in 1766. Bodeâs Law provides a formula for predicting the
orbits of most planets,
but has exceptions. The formula goes astray when determining the distance
of the
outer planets Neptune & Pluto, and their orbital paths. Also, it does
not address
the yet undiscovered 12th planet, which will become visible to large observatory
telescopes in the late 2001-early 2002, and to amateur astronomers in mid-to-late
2002. [..]