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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Astronomical Prediction Based on Patterns
« on: November 24, 2018, 03:14:31 PM »From the abstract of that Harvard paper: " The initial conditions are taken from the JPL DE 102 ephemeris."Peterson was not misquoted. From Newton's Clock:
do you really not understand what quote mining is? it's dishonest to selectively quote a text to make it seem as if the author is making a different point than he or she is actually making. yes, the author makes that remark about laskar's work in 1983. but then immediately after that he explains that other simulations absolutely did model the solar system directly and confirmed laskar's results. he describes the nature and results of some of those simulations.
the source that you presented as a credible authority explicitly disagrees with everything you are claiming, and he says so directly. read the quotes i posted. he's quite clear.Lets see the three body simulations of three bodies with unequal masses.
i already provided you with a nine-body simulation. this is literally a simulation of the solar system carried out by directly calculating newton's laws and letting the system evolve.
A three million year integration of the earth's orbit
Wikipedia says about the JPL DE 102 ephemeris: "Each ephemeris was produced by numerical integration of the equations of motion, starting from a set of initial conditions. Due to the precision of modern observational data, the analytical method of general perturbations could no longer be applied to a high enough accuracy to adequately reproduce the observations. The method of special perturbations was applied, using numerical integration to solve the n-body problem, in effect putting the entire Solar System into motion in the computer's memory, accounting for all relevant physical laws. "
Tom's point stands.