HOW TO COMPUTE THE SPEED AND DIRECTION OF THE SUN



KEPLER'S LAW DOES NOT DESCRIBE REALITY

Kepler's Law states that the planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus of the ellipse so that a line connecting the sun and a planet will sweep out equal areas in equal times. An ellipse is a central conic, symmetric about a central point so that the major axis passing through the focus bisects the ellipse, making the areas of both sides of the bisected ellipse equal. The perihelion and aphelion are the closest and furthest points from the sun, the focus, that the Earth's orbit intersects the major axis. By applying Kepler's Law to the Earth's orbit, these points are placed in early January and July. However, the time it takes for the Earth to move between these astronomical points, January to July is 72 hours less than the time it takes to move from July to January, sweeping out equal areas in unequal times. Thus, applying Kepler's Law to determine the perihelion and aphelion of the Earth's orbit disproves Kepler's Law! The perihelion and aphelion actually coincide approximately with the winter and summer solstices, the angle of the Earth's tilt being itself tilted less than a degree away from the direction of the sun's motion, resulting in a time differential approximately thirty hours less.

HOW TO COMPUTE THE SPEED OF THE SUN

The fact that it takes longer for the Earth to move between the summer (June) and winter (December) solstices than it does to move between the winter and summer solstices shows that the sun is moving toward the winter solstice. These times can be obtained from a Farmer's almanac. Note, however, that using the astronomical perihelion and aphelion (January and July) computed by assuming Kepler's Law applies to the Earth's orbit will overstate the sun's speed by approximately 80%. With the sun moving toward the winter solstice, D1, the distance the Earth travels between the winter and summer solstices is shorter than D2, the distance the Earth travels between the summer and winter solstices. Because the Earth's rate is equal in both periods, D1 divided by the time it takes to move from the winter to the summer solstice equals D2 divided by the time it takes to move from the summer to the winter solstice. D1 and D2 can be expressed in terms of V, the velocity of the sun. D1 equals the distance of the bisected Earth's orbit (pi times D/2) minus the time it takes for the Earth to move between the winter and summer solstices multiplied by V. D2 equals the distance of the bisected Earth's orbit plus the time it takes for the Earth to move between the summer and winter solstices multiplied by V. Substituting these values for D1 and D2 solves the equation for V, the velocity of the sun.

Where the absolute distance is 1/2 the Earth's orbit ( pi (3.14)x 93,000,000), the time it takes for the Earth to move from the winter to the summer solstice is 4362.22 hours and the time it takes for the Earth to move between the summer and winter solstice is 4403.35, the speed of the sun, V, is determined as follows:

THE QUESTION OF WHAT MAKES OBJECTS FALL IS UP FOR GRABS

The movement of the sun accounts for the precession of the vernal equinox, currently scientifically explained by wobble, as well as Tycho Brahe's unexplained finding that the moon travels faster in the summer than the winter: It isn't traveling faster, it is traveling at a uniform rate over the shorter distance between the winter and summer solstices and the longer distance between the summer and winter solstices caused by the motion of the sun.

The sun's movement is what gives the planetary orbit the appearance of being an ellipse, the Earth's actual path being a helix less than 1% from the plane of solar system movement. Because the sun is dragging the planets through space, historical forces are not sufficient to explain orbiting.

As Newton based his proof of mass/gravity on historical forces producing Kepler's Law, we may have to rethink why objects fall.

Today it is popular to assert that Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is useful in computing the future location of planets, although it didn't prove to be very useful in computing the course of the moon missions, which had to find their way by trial and error. Useful or not in computing planetary orbits, because its validity rests on Kepler's laws and because Kepler's laws do not describe reality,