Do you, as a Flat Earth believer, believe in gravity?

Quote from: Particle Person on May 18, 2011, 06:31:16 PM

Why is that?

While I do not know the reason, it is evident that stars must have a pull towards their centre. Otherwise, the gas they consist of would just spread out, thus vapourising the star in question.

Considering the distance to those stars, that pull might as well not exist.

Considering the distance to those stars, that pull might as well not exist.

It has to exist to hold the stars together.

Quote from: Horatio on May 19, 2011, 03:22:00 PM

Considering the distance to those stars, that pull might as well not exist.

It has to exist to hold the stars together.

I was referring to the effect that pull has on Earth.

Well, but what about those orphan planets just wandering around with no star, no solar system?

Well, but what about those orphan planets just wandering around with no star, no solar system?

What about them? Unless one decides to barrel through our solar system, they aren't a problem.

It's just that the accepted RET requires a star's gravity to explain planet formation

It's just that the accepted RET requires a star's gravity to explain planet formation

Those planets almost certainly did form around a star, but got ejected out of their solar system at some point.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/18/the-galaxy-may-swarm-with-billions-of-wandering-planets/

We see lots of massive planets huddling close in to their parent stars, far closer than any reasonable model can predict. Most likely, these planets form farther out in their native solar system and then migrate inwards toward the star as they plow through the material left over from their formation. Any planet between them and their star will be affected; some will shift orbit, dropping toward the star themselves, others will get flung into wide orbits, and others still will be tossed out of the system entirely.

It’s those last that are so interesting. If the inward-moving planet is, say, five times the mass of Jupiter, it can gravitationally eject a smaller planet, even one as massive as Jupiter. And we do see lots of very massive planets orbiting close in to their stars. This strongly implies that for every "hot super-Jupiter" we see, there is one or more planet that got kicked out of the system, sent out into the galaxy at large á la Space: 1999.

Your "almost certainly" isn't quite accurate, is it?

"They may have formed in proto-planetary disks, and subsequently scattered into unbound or very distant orbits,"
 
The paper, was written by two teams who used gravitational microlensing to analyze tens of millions of Milky Way stars over a twoyear period.
 
"The implications of this discovery are profound," commented German astronomer Joachim Wambsganss in Nature. "We have a first glimpse of a new population of planetary-mass objects in our galaxy. Now we need to explore their properties, distribution, dynamic states and history."
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Free+floating+planets+found+without+stars/4806815/story.html#ixzz1MqRSzKe0

Your "almost certainly" isn't quite accurate, is it?

"They may have formed in proto-planetary disks, and subsequently scattered into unbound or very distant orbits,"
 
The paper, was written by two teams who used gravitational microlensing to analyze tens of millions of Milky Way stars over a twoyear period.
 
"The implications of this discovery are profound," commented German astronomer Joachim Wambsganss in Nature. "We have a first glimpse of a new population of planetary-mass objects in our galaxy. Now we need to explore their properties, distribution, dynamic states and history."
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Free+floating+planets+found+without+stars/4806815/story.html#ixzz1MqRSzKe0

Now you're just being needlessly anal.

No. 'May' does not mean 'almost certainly.'   

Horatio, just wait until you hear the FET explanation for rogue planets.

No. 'May' does not mean 'almost certainly.'   

In scientific speak, it does.

The prevailing theory is that they formed in planetary disks. End of story.