Harmonious orbital ratios are weeded out because they destabilize orbits
Evidence
The fact that the planetary tone is not harmonious is probably not an accident. Exact harmonious ratios involving small integers are specifically weeded out, because they lead to orbital instability. Like Galileoâs bells, the meager but repetitious tugs of one planet on another can begin to add up if they are applied resonantly, resulting in a significant alteration of orbits. In the present configuration of planetary orbits, however, the frequency ratios would have to be very precise to cause trouble. For example, 8 earth orbits is within 0.032% of 13 Venus orbits, but the tug is weak enough that the little 0.032% âerrorâ saves us from having to worry about this resonance. Like a sleepy bell ringer slowly drifting out of sync with the bell, the pulls remove energy as often as they add it, with no net result. The planets are high-Q oscillators; their resonances require precise frequency matching for significant perturbations to occurâ lucky for us. â Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- AnâŠ, 921
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- SHARE: The 0.032% Venus-Earth near-resonance saving us from destabilization is the exact fact a physics colleague would appreciate.
- DEEPTHINKING: Resonant accumulation as cosmic architecture â the anti-harmony of orbits is what keeps the system alive, inverting the naive âmusic of spheresâ aesthetic entirely.
Related
- Planetary orbits avoid exact integer ratios because resonance causes instability (similarity 0.92)
- Integer-ratio tugs from moons cause orbit wandering in rings (similarity 0.84)
Broader Connections
- Integer-ratio tugs from moons cause orbit wandering in rings
#corroborates(0.80) â Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- AnâŠ, 925