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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
Thanks Ray - too good to be true. You are right. In looking at all the planet alignments against earthquake lists this was the one that had the most obvious trend. I should have looked into it more closely. Given that Mars goes retrograde while opposite Sun I had assumed that the periods were the same. Ah, well. Back to square one. Strike out the Mars effect. The same problem applied to the claims about Jupiter and Saturn, but hopefully not to all the findings. I will look to see what I can salvage.
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Bad luck there, but not too surprising. If there had been a correlation between simple planetary configurations, I suspect it would have been known already. OTOH, I'm not sure the extent to which correlations between planetary positions and earthquakes have actually been investigated by conventional science. It is more likely that the entire hypothesis is dismissed on a priori grounds of an negligible gravitational effect. Without a plausible mechanism, the correlation question becomes moot. Perhaps the only research of any description has been conducted by those sympathetic to astrology and they are not known for their statistical abilities.
I'm intrigued by your idea of repeated planetary cycles creating a kind of cumulative gravitational effect so that tiny forces can become magnified over time. Is there any analog for this approach elsewhere in the physical world?