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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
You know Robert, you might actually be on to something here, if you can think of a causal story somehow. How is the 179 day "orbit" of the Solar System's barycenter (SSB) causally tied the precession of the Earth's axis. In other words, something has to be able to exert a torque that can cause the precession to speed up or slow down, and hence control, within limits, the overall rate of precession. The only planet with that kind of power is Venus. Remember, the Earth might control the rate of rotation of Venus, and so Venus might have a reciprocal effect on the Earth. But the Earth spins much too fast for Earth to turn it's heavier side to Venus every inferior conjunction, as Venus does to the Earth. But still, because of the tilt of the Earth, if the conjunction occurs in when it's summer in the northern hemisphere, Venus will exert a larger force on the northern hemisphere than on southern hemisphere, and vice versa when it's summer down under. But the hemispheres are not the same: the northern hemisphere is dominated by the Eurasian continental land mass, whereas its antipode, the vast basaltic expanse of the South Pacific. That is, one hemisphere or the other must be "heavier" with respect to Venus (this could probably be cashed out in terms of one of those Jn gravitational moments). Which one I can't say. You'd think maybe the mountainous side would be heavier, but then again, continents float on the basaltic mantle stuff, but there's probably a correct answer. So somehow the 179 cycle would have to tie into the pentagrammatic resonance between Earth and Venus. BTW since you read the Bible, you must know what happened to Nimrod, the astrologer.
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Nimrod is the great hunter, Israeli hero, grandson of Noah, great^7 grandpa of Abraham and legendary builder of the tower of Babel. Nimrod fell into the bad books because of the view he was idolatrous, earning the ire of the Hebrew prophets and judges who disliked fatalism and divination because they believed they distracted from the grandeur of creation. Please rest assured, I am in no way seeking to distract from the astronomical grandeur of creation, nor am I suggesting any form of idolatry. The planets are just part of the same isolated physical system as us, so it is scientifically legitimate to investigate ways we may possibly be connected with them, with the SSB cycle a very interesting candidate.
I like your comment on torque, but this is a topic where my scientific understanding is sketchy. Is it possible that the combined torque of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, the planets forming the 179 year (not day!) SSB cycle, are responsible for entraining the period of the precession within defined limits? Could this operate in the same way the
shepherd moons entrain rings of Saturn? The F ring is basically held in place by the gravity of Saturn, but is sculpted by the shepherds Prometheus and Pandora. Perhaps the JSN cycle has a similar shepherd sculpting function for the lunisolar precession of the earth? I don’t see the possible relevance of Venus here.