Dec 20, 16 / Cap 19, 00 16:12 UTC
The helical model - our solar system is a vortex ¶
https://youtu.be/0jHsq36_NTU
can I attach youtube? (this is a test :p )
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Dec 20, 16 / Cap 19, 00 21:19 UTC
Tip:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU> = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
PS: The video at hand is actually quite inaccurate. The sun doesn't quite drag the planets like so and their orbit isn't perfectly in the vertical compared to the sun's movement horizontally. The orbits are much more erratic and at any given moment in time a planet can be in front of the sun's path. The orbits change their angle and there is no "atmosphere" that could produce attrition that would force any body towards the star for being in the path of its movement.
That model is indeed more interesting than the 2D model currently adopted but it is not quite accurate. I'd love to see someone make a truly accurate model of the solar system at one point.
Maybe as an interactive Flash or Java application that can even be made to show the accurate movement where the user can change their point of view and then you press a button and it changes to show you the accurate scale of the celestial bodies, also with the ability to move around and change your point of view.
One can dream, can't he ;)
