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To: Boogieman

And if the ratio between orbital and rotational periods were the same for every planet the way pi is constant for every circle you’d have a valid point.


66 posted on 03/04/2012 12:32:09 AM PST by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: muir_redwoods

“And if the ratio between orbital and rotational periods were the same for every planet the way pi is constant for every circle you’d have a valid point.”

That is just simplistic thinking. The ratio of the orbital and rotational periods are not all determined by as simple a formula as the ratio of a circle, but they are all determined by the constant physical laws, which can be expressed in a more complex formula. Is a more complex formula evidence of randomness?


68 posted on 03/04/2012 8:55:17 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: muir_redwoods

Besides which, my original point for making the comparison to Pi, was to show that having an irrational result for the ratio of two values, was not evidence of randomness. So, simply because the ratio of the orbit to the rotation doesn’t equal 365.0 is not evidence of any kind of randomness in their correlation.


69 posted on 03/04/2012 8:57:49 AM PST by Boogieman
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