Today I took the large graph from the Graphics tab and made a copy of it. On the copy I added a data series of the monthly sunspots. As I look at the graph of Jupiter’s 11.826 year cycle compared to the monthly sunspot numbers, I see the 2 cycles being sometimes in phase, sometimes out of phase and sometimes transitioning phase. Jupiter’s orbit is constant. The sunspots vary in length from 9 to 13.8 and vary in amplitude from 0 to 250. Looking at the 2 data series side by side I would guess that the monthly averages would have come out random or somewhat flat. But they didn’t. The trend line for the 12 month averaging has an r^2 of .98. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for random or chaotic behavior.
I would post the graph but it is too large and if I shrink it down the detail is lost.
Thank you for your input. I’ll have to think more about what you have said.
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