We Live in the Helical Solar System: Our Home in a Helical Universe

By Paul Geiger

This book describes in detail the helical structure of the Solar System. In the 1960s astronomers studying the orbital motions of stars in other galaxies and realized the Sun must be moving in an orbit around the center of the Milky Way. This requires each planet in the Solar System to follow a helical (spiral) path as it orbits the Sun. In spite of that, however, the old flat-orbit concept, although obsolete, is apparently still being taught in our schools. This book was written in the hope students, as well as the general public, can finally begin to learn the newfound understanding of how our Solar System has always operated. The text explains the new concept and is based on the information discovered by astronomers in the last half of the 20th century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483531618

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© 2014 Paul Geiger

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Cover: The illustration is a still frame from a computer-generated simulation of the helical paths of the four inner planets of the Solar System. In the real world, these helixes are stretched out very much longer than any simulation can show

ISBN: 9781483531618

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1   The Newfound Orbiting Structure

For the Solar System as well as the Universe

Chapter 2   How long are the helixes?

They range from Mercury’s 1.04-billion miles to Neptune’s 697-billion miles

Chapter 3   Dark Matter was Invented to Explain Uniform Velocities

The helical Solar System indicates something different

Chapter 4   Einstein’s curved space

Curvatures in space guide the movements of matter

Chapter 5   Space Rules

But the helix does the work

Chapter 6   Newton’s Apple

Earth’s high-speed galactic orbit may change the apple’s trajectory

Chapter 7   Nature’s optical illusions

There are multiple examples of these illusions

Chapter 8   Human-centered mind set

It’s hard to admit we aren’t the center of everything

Chapter 9   Conclusions

Appendix I: Author’s 2008 Science Paper

Appendix II: Gallery of planet helixes

Appendix III: Acknowledgements

Appendix IV: About the author

Appendix V: Glossary

Introduction

For more than 40 years astronomers have known the planets do not revolve around the Sun in flat orbits, as they used to believe. One of nature’s many optical illusions had misled them for hundreds of years. In the 1960s astronomers were studying the orbital motions of stars in other galaxies and realized the Sun must be moving in an orbit around the center of the Milky Way. This requires each planet in the Solar System to follow a helical (spiral) path as it orbits the Sun. In spite of that, however, the old flat-orbit concept, although obsolete, is apparently still being taught in our schools. For some reason, astronomers seem not to have made an effort to publicize the new helical structure for the Solar System.

This book was written in the hope students, as well as the general public, can finally begin to learn the newfound understanding of how our Solar System has always operated. The text explains the new concept and is based