O n t h e T r a c k o f M o d e r n P h y s i c s

Our solar system consists of a recycled Star, too small to be a neutron star and bigger than brown dwarfs. Four internal planets, called telluric, posses an iron core, of similar dimensions; it is solid on Mars and above the Curie point (?) on Venus, so these two have no magnetospheres. Atmospheres are all different: with Na and K atoms on Mercury, CO2 and sulphuric acid on Venus (causing a 450º greenhouse effect), thin CO2 layer with water frozen on Mars, hydrogen, helium, with some methane and ammonia on Jupiter. Ironic core posses also Io, the biggest Jupiter’s satellite, but with its 24 km high volcanoes of molten sulphur is not the place to live in.Remaining three of the almost naked-eye visible, so-called Galilean satellites of Jupiter are covered, probably, with frozen water.

It turns out, that the planet and satellite movements are partly harmonized. The most famous planet cycle commensurabilities are: Jupiter – Saturn resonance (2:5), Neptune – Pluto resonance (2:3). Another example are Jupiter moons: Io resonates with Europe (1:2), the same between Europe and Ganymede, finally Ganymede – Callisto resonance ratio is 3:7.There is a lot more planetoid resonances. If we had done an exact transcription of the planet movement frequency to the music, we could achieve scattered planet chards.

Astronomy is the oldest sciences. First astronomical site probably was Stonehenge, constructed somewhen between 3100-2000 BC on England's Salisbury Plain. Some astronomers suggest that Stonehenge was used to keep track of the solar-lunar eclipses.

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Mercury, circumvallating the Sun in 88 (our) days is a clamorous example of the cosmic harmony. The rotation, orbital and synodic periods are in 6:4:3 resonance: one day on Mercury lasts exactly one Mercury’s year and the night lasts the second year. Mercury rotates around the Sun four times exactly at the same when the Earth rotates around it only once, so it is visible from Earth in almost the same orientation.

A. Balogh, G. Giampieri, Mercury: the planet and its orbit, Rep.Prog. Phys.65 (2002) 529

"... and the whole heaven to be a musical scale and a number... "

Harmonice Mundi

”Music of the spheres” from ”The Harmony of the World”.Johannes Kepler claimed that the heavenly motions are nothing but a continual music of several voices, which can be comprehended by intellect not by the ear.

Mikołaj Kopernik in his De revolutionibus orbium caelestium regarded astronomy as ”studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known. This is the nature of the discipline which deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the asters' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings, as well as the causes of the other phenomena in the sky, and which, in short, explains its whole appearance. What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty?”

The megalithic ruin known as Stonehenge Ranoraraku - the Moai quarry

Neptun is not the most distant body of the Solar System. The Kuiper belt, predicted in 1951 and remained theory until the 1992 detection of a 150-mile wide body, called 1992QB1 at the distance of the suspected belt. There are more than 800 known trans-Neptunian (or Kuiper Belt Objects, KBOs). It is surprising that one-third of the population are engaged into the 3:2 resonance with the Neptune. Because the same resonance is also occupied by Pluto the object are named "Plutinos" (little Plutos). Probably, the resonance stabilizes the Plutinos against gravitational perturbations by Neptune. Quaoar is a newly discovered KBO, found in June 2002. The existence of 2003 EL61 was reported on 28 July 2005. KBO 2003 UB313, as big as or slightly bigger than Pluto was announced on July 29, 2005 as the X planet.

Sedna (2003 VB12), disclosed on 15 March 2004, as the coldest, most distant object known to orbit the Sun, is an exciting object with large perihelion distance. Possibly it is the first object in the cloud hypothesized in 1950 by Jan Oort cloud. The cloud, 50000 times more distant from Sun than the Earth, is a possible source of some (“Jupiter family”) comets. Sedna's presence may suggest that the Oort cloud is much closer than scientists believed.© NASA http://solarsystem.nasa.gov

Universe according to Ptolemeus (a), Copernicus (b), Tycho de Brahe (c) and Johannes Kepler (d)

Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/SWRI/UCL

17 August 2005 Data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft indicate that Saturn's majestic ring system has its own atmosphere - separate from that of the planet itself. The ring is composed of small solid particles, as predicted by. J.C. Maxwell in 1870 and its atmosphere contains mainly molecular oxygen.

Science always liked music. Pitagoras discovered integer proportions for chord length producing “harmony”. Now, numbers which are not integer proportion, we call “irrational”. Galileo Galilei got interest in Physics listening to his father – violin maker. Kepler found “his” three laws trying to inscribe planetary orbits within “regular” volumes: tetrahedral, cube and so on. Even solutions of the Schrödinger equation are expressed in “spherical harmonics”. Does some transcendental harmony really exist in the Universe?

Foto: Universität Mannheim

So what about the Cosmic Harmony?As said by Kepler, it sounds in our minds, not in ears. And consists in carefully chosen gravitational, cosmo- logical and fine structure constants to make all this Universe turn around.

Where is the border?

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satelliteshttp://www.toyz2men.com/sh2iigi24in.htmlhttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html

But as far as many orbits are well synchro- nized, those of newly discovered moons of Jupiter seem a dust-bin. Is Jupiter a kind of Gigante Buono swallowing all trash before it comes to Earth?

If You still believe in transcendental harmony, You are allowed to go to: http://www.halexandria.org/

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