PSI Blog 20221017 First Alteration of an Asteroid Orbit a
Huge Success for Humanity and Infinite Universe Theory
Another
instance of Einstein’s relativity being left in the dust by NASA’s Newtonian
Mechanics
Figure 1.
The 170-m wide Dimorphos just before the collision. Credit: NASA.
Readers know
I have been outrageously critical of relativity because of the religious
assumptions hidden beneath all the math (see especially "Religious Roots of Relativity").
The universe does not work that way—everything simply is matter in motion, as
implied by Newton’s three laws. While some of NASA’s experiments have been
erroneously interpreted as though they support Einstein, DART is not one of
them.
NASA’s great
achievement demonstrated that it is possible to send a rocket over 10 million
kilometers to collide with and alter the orbit of another cosmological object.
In this first instance, the orbit of a small asteroid (Dimorphos) was decreased
as it continued to revolve around a large asteroid (Didymos).
Jerry Coyne and his friend Jim Batterson do a great job explaining the DART
experiment: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/10/12/the-dart-mission-was-a-success-orbit-perturbed/.
Jerry includes a link to the hour-long video of the presser and one on the 39
secs preceding the collision. The upshot, as Jim writes, is that “the orbit of
Dimorphos around Didymos changed significantly - from 11hrs 55min to 11hrs
23min – a 32 minute change.”
This
provides an educational moment for us:
Relativism
Take a look
at Dimorphos in Figure 1. Note the irregular shapes and sizes of the rock
fragments of which it is composed. This is typical of the Infinite Universe,
with this observation providing support for the Ninth Assumption of Science, relativism (All things have characteristics
that make them similar to all other things as well as characteristics that make
them dissimilar to all other things). In my lectures, I sometimes ask students
to find two identical rocks or pebbles, which would be a falsification of relativism. They never do. It also is why we
say “no two snowflakes are identical” and why so-called “identical twins” are
never completely identical. Regressives tend to assume the opposite, the Ninth
Assumption of Religion. I call that absolutism (Identities exist, that
is, any two things may have identical characteristics). That is when I get out my
hand lens or microscope. If you look hard enough you always will find some
dissimilarities.
Rocket
Science
Figure 2. “Illustration
of how DART's impact altered the orbit of Dimorphos about Didymos.” Credit: DART Mission Team.
Note that
DART is moving in the opposite direction of Dimorphos. This means the head-on collision
resulted in a deceleration of Dimorphos, causing its velocity to decrease. That
follows from Newton's Second Law of Motion in which the motion of the collider
decreases as the motion of the collidee increases. Of course, in this case, the
imparted motion subtracts from that of DART. When the velocity of a satellite
decreases, it enters a lower orbit. That is, it is pushed toward the object it revolves
around due to gravitation. Despite the decrease in velocity, the trip around
Didymos became shorter, with its period of revolution decreasing by the 32
minutes.
Imagine what
would have happened if DART was able to travel in the same direction as
Dimorphos. If it had a higher velocity than Dimorphos, it might be able to
catchup with and collide with it. This would have increased the velocity of
Dimorphos per Newton's Second and cause an increase in the length of its orbit.
The period of revolution would then increase instead of decrease.
Here is a
great cartoon
illustrating how rockets can change orbit by speeding up or slowing down by
reversing thrust direction. Again, all this has to do solely with Newtonian
mechanics, the same theoretical physics that got us to the Moon, Mars, and
beyond—no “relativists” need apply.
Vortex
Formation
As Steve
Puetz and I pointed out in our technical book “Universal Cycle Theory,”
vortices are common throughout the cosmos.[1] Vortex formation is why
smaller bodies revolve around larger ones, with the Dimorphos-Didymos system
being a good example (Figure 2). The orbits of revolving bodies tend to decay
over time for the same reason Dimorphos’s orbit just did: deceleration. The Infinite
Universe always contains something that gets in the way. There is no perfectly
empty space that would allow perpetual motion. That is one reason I changed
Newton’s First Law of Motion from “unless” to “until” in "The Scientific
Worldview."[2]
It is one reason the subtitle of that book is “Beyond Newton and Einstein.”
Orbital
decay like that shown in the DART experiment is why Earth has an iron-nickel
core denser than the siliceous crust. It is why stars in spiral galaxies like
the Milky Way end up being pushed toward its extremely dense nucleus. It is
why, once that part of the evolutionary process is completed, the results could
be called “naked black holes.” Evidence for these starless nuclei is
accumulating rapidly as I write, with each one attesting to the validity of Infinite Universe Theory.
In
“Universal Cycle Theory” we speculated that it would take trillions of years
for the Milky Way to reach that state. We based this on the analogy to our
solar system, in which about 99% of the mass is centered in the Sun. The
nucleus of the Milky Way, has only 1% of its mass. Even so, cosmologists
generally assume the Sun will shine for at least another 4 billion years, with
its eventual remnants taking billions more to reach the nucleus of the galaxy.
[1]
Puetz, S.J., and Borchardt, Glenn, 2011, Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics
of the Hierarchically Infinite Universe: Denver, Outskirts Press, 626 p. [https://go.glennborchardt.com/UCT].
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