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Old 10-November-2004, 12:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Lunatik
[ But if anyone likes to play with numbers, try figuring total orbital Energy for the planets, and you'll discover that Earth's orbit sits at ~9e16 Watts, which is oddly similar to E=mc^2 = 90 petajoules (per second). How about that! #-o
Fascinating! The difference between the expected outer orbital velocities stars in galaxies using Newtonian mechanics, and the measured orbitals is in the 40 km/sec range, so it is in the right ballpark for generating microwaves...
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