O n t h e T r a c k o f M o d e r n P h y s i c s

Astronomy is the oldest sciences. First astronomical site probably was Stonehenge, constructed somewhen between 3100-2000 BC on England's Salisbury Plain. Some astronomers suggest that Stonehenge was used to keep track of the solar-lunar eclipses.

The megalithic ruin known as

Stonehenge Ranoraraku

- the Moai quarry

Science always liked music. Pitagoras discovered integer proportions for chord length producing “harmony”. Now, numbers which are not integer proportion, we call “irrational”. Galileo Galilei got interest in Physics listening to his father – violin maker. Kepler found “his” three laws trying to inscribe planetary orbits within “regular” volumes: tetrahedral, cube and so on. Even solutions of the Schr ödinger equation are expressed in “spherical harmonics”. Does some transcendental harmony really exist in the Universe?

Harmonice Mundi

a) Mikołaj Kopernik in his

De revolutionibus orbium caelestium

regarded astronomy as ”studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known. This is the nature of the discipline which deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the asters' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings, as well as the causes of the other phenomena in the sky, and which, in short, explains its whole appearance. What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty?” b) c) d) Foto:

Universität Mannheim

”Music of the spheres” from ”The Harmony of the World”.

Johannes Kepler claimed that the heavenly motions are nothing but a continual music of several voices, which can be comprehended by intellect not by the ear.

"... and the whole heaven to be a musical scale and a number

... "

Universe according to Ptolemeus (a), Copernicus (b), Tycho de Brahe (c) and Johannes Kepler (d)

[http://www.solarviews.com/eng/solarsys.htm] Our solar system consists of a

recycled

Star, too small to be a neutron star and bigger than brown dwarfs. Four internal planets, called

telluric

, posses an iron core, of similar dimensions; it is solid on

Mars

and above the Curie point (?) on

Venus

, so these two have no magnetospheres. Atmospheres are all different: with Na and K atoms on

greenhouse

effect), thin CO 2

Mercury

, CO 2 and sulphuric acid on Venus (causing a 450º layer with water frozen on Mars, hydrogen, helium, with some methane and ammonia on

Jupiter

.

Ironic core posses also Io, the biggest Jupiter’s satellite, but with its 24 km high volcanoes of

molten sulphur

is not the place to live in.

Remaining three of the almost naked-eye visible, so-called Galilean satellites of Jupiter are covered, probably, with

frozen water

.

17 August 2005 Data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft indicate that

Saturn's

majestic ring system has its own atmosphere - separate from that of the planet itself. The ring is composed of small solid particles, as predicted by. J.C.

Maxwell in 1870 and its atmosphere contains mainly

molecular oxygen.

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2 0.4

3 1 3 SUN 0 AU 0.2

0.0

2 4 0 Earth -0.2

1 4 -0.4

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5 -0.4

0.0

0.4

0.8

Mercury,

circumvallating the Sun in 88 (our) days is a clamorous example of the cosmic harmony. The rotation, orbital and synodic periods are in

6:4:3

resonance: one day on Mercury lasts exactly one Mercury’s year and the night lasts the second year.

Mercury rotates around the Sun four times exactly at the same when the Earth rotates around it only once, so it is visible from Earth in almost the same orientation.

A. Balogh, G. Giampieri, Mercury: the planet and its orbit, Rep.Prog. Phys.

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(2002) 529

Where is the border?

Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/SWRI/UCL It turns out, that the planet and satellite movements are partly harmonized. The most famous planet cycle commensurabilities are: Jupiter – Saturn

resonance

(2:5), Neptune – Pluto resonance (2:3). Another example are Jupiter moons: Io resonates with Europe (1:2), the same between Europe and Ganymede, finally Ganymede – Callisto resonance ratio is 3:7.

There is a lot more planetoid resonances. If we had done an exact transcription of the planet movement frequency to the music, we could achieve

scattered planet chards

.

But as far as many orbits are well synchro nized, those of newly discovered moons of Jupiter seem a dust-bin. Is Jupiter a kind of

Gigante Buono

swallowing all trash before it comes to Earth?

Neptun

is not the most distant body of the Solar System. The Kuiper belt, predicted in 1951 and remained theory until the 1992 detection of a 150-mile wide body, called

1992QB1

at the distance of the suspected belt. There are more than 800 known trans-Neptunian (or Kuiper Belt Objects, KBOs). It is surprising that one-third of the population are engaged into the

3:2

resonance with the Neptune. Because the same resonance is also occupied by Pluto the object are named "Plutinos" (little Plutos). Probably, the resonance stabilizes the Plutinos against gravitational perturbations by Neptune.

Quaoar

is a newly discovered KBO, found in

June 2002.

The existence of

2003 EL61

was reported on

28 July 2005.

KBO

2003 UB313,

as or slightly bigger than Pluto was announced on

July 29, 2005

as the

X planet.

as big

Sedna

(2003 VB12), disclosed on 15 March 2004, as the coldest, most distant object known to orbit the Sun, is an exciting object with large perihelion distance. Possibly it is the first object in the cloud hypothesized in 1950 by Jan Oort cloud. The cloud, 50000 times more distant from Sun than the Earth, is a possible source of some (“Jupiter family”) comets.

Sedna's presence may suggest that the Oort cloud is much closer than scientists believed.

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http://www.toyz2men.com/sh2iigi24in.html

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites

So what about the Cosmic Harmony?

As said by Kepler, it sounds in our

minds

, not in ears. And consists in

carefully chosen

gravitational, cosmo logical and fine structure constants to make all this Universe turn around.

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