Solar System Simplified

For anyone mystified by the preceding post it’s very simple really.  Here is my hypothesis. The sun maintains the orbits of the planets by inputting energy via transfer of angular momentum through the solar wind. The periodic temporal groupings of planetary alignments coincide with the solar cycles which generate changes in the solar wind speed. Dynamic balance between power supply and planetary feedback via the alignments governs the level of the power supply from our Sun.

The Sun is prevented from going into runaway conditions and possibly going supernova by the planets, which control it’s activity levels. The Sun contains 99.85% of all the mass in the system. The planets have 98% of the angular momentum. When the sun follows it’s tendency towards runaway conditions with shorter, higher amplitude cycles, it gets out of phase with the planetary alignments. This causes solar activity to drop to below average levels. Then it slowly builds up a head of steam again. This is why the sun occasionally leads the planetary alignments rather than lagging them.

Planetary alignments: green lines vs sunspot numbers: red curve

You can see this in Jean Pierre Desmoulins graph above. Leading up to tht Dalton minimum in solar activity at the beginning of the 1800’s, the sun was running hot, with a couple of hiogh amplitude cycles which got ahead of the planetary alignment ‘most aligned days’. Afterwards, solar activity fell to a deep low for two cycles. Low cycles tend to be longer, so the phase relationship between solar cycles and planetary alignment cycles was restored, and the solar cycles recovered their strength. There was a less dramatic downturn at the start of the C20th, and we’ll have to wait and see how the current low spell in solar activity develops.

Maunder minimum followed by 100 years of increasing activity. Dalton Minimum, followed by 100 years of increasing activity, the low cycles at the start of the C20th, followed by 100 years of increasing activity. Then the recent long minimum after solar cycle 23 followed by, you guessed it…a low solar cycle 24, probably a low solar cycle 25 too, followed by a gradual recovery during the C21st, with some ups and downs along the way as the system oscillates.

Watt governor

James Watt came up with the invention of the planetary Governor to control the speed of steam engines in 1724. The sliding collar ‘R’ is connected via rod ‘W’ to the valve which controls the amount of steam allowed into the cylinder barrel. As the system speeds up, the spinning weights ‘B’ are thrown outwards by centifugal force, lifting the collar and shutting down the steam valve to slow the engine. The reduced speed allows the spinning weights to fall inwards again, opening the throttle valve once more. This is cybernetic feedback, and it causes the system to oscillate either side of the optimum level. All manmade and natural systems governed by negative feedback loops do this, including Earth’s climate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YaNCFGPHw

I predict it will be discovered that more stars which have no planetary system will go supernova prematurely than those that do.

Luckily for us.