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Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 4:24 am
by aa5
Sweet conjunction Patrix, thanks for pointing it out.

Recently my friend she took a picture of what she thought was a very bright star in the sky. so I said to her, maybe it is Venus. So I logged into the Tychos Simulator and yep Venus was shockingly close to the Earth.

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:09 pm
by simonshack
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THE TYCHOSIUM SIMULATOR EXPOSES KEPLER'S "SIMULATIONS"


Dear friends,

As I sipped my morning coffee today, something occurred to me which had me laughing aloud (mostly at myself - for not having thought about this earlier!). Some coffee was spilled in the process... As we shall see, the funny thing about it is the sheer simplicity of this most basic "probatory element" in support of the correctness of the Tychosium 3D simulator. In fact, it should have dawned upon me a couple of years ago - during my first baby steps constructing the Tychosium with Patrik.

THE TYCHOSIUM 3D SIMULATOR: https://codepen.io/pholmq/pen/XGPrPd

This realization concerns the very plausibility of the entire TYCHOS model; to wit, if its basic contention that the Sun circles around Earth at constant speed around a uniformly circular orbit were flawed, the Tychosium simulator would have been deadborn in its cradle - for being a geometric impossibility, in harsh contradiction with empirical / astronomical observations! As it turns out though, it is the Keplerian theory that utterly fails to account for the observable celestial motions.

So here goes: first, you must know that in the Tychosium, the Sun's orbit is a circle placed around Earth, with our planet slightly off-center of the solar orbit and thus respecting the generally-accepted, slightly fluctuating Sun-Earth distance. This distance is known to be slightly larger in early July and slightly smaller in early January.

This is actually empirically verifiable, as the Sun's disc is observed to be a bit smaller in July than in January).
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Mind you, the issue of the Sun's observed size in July vs January is only of marginal relevance to the present discussion, so let's get on.

I remember that, as I placed the Sun in the Tychosium, adjusting its orbit's position by perusing ephemeride data (of Right Ascension and Declination) from the famed Stellarium simulator (widely-considered as the best existing solar system simulator), it took me no more than a few hours to make them match with the Tychosium's own ephemeride counter. It was, in fact, the easiest part of the hundreds of hours I've dedicated to the Tychosium so far. Now, here comes the "funny" part: what I didn't realize back then was that this was already a major victory for the Tychosium - and consequently, for the TYCHOS model. I shall now explain why.

According to Kepler's "laws", as Earth travels around the Sun, it alternately accelerates and decelerates. Here's from a NASA "FACT SHEET":
EARTH FACT SHEET
Mean orbital velocity (km/s) 29.78
Min. orbital velocity (km/s) 29.29
Max. orbital velocity (km/s) 30.29


https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/f ... hfact.html
(Note: the entire scientific / astronomy community accepts these purported Keplerian speed fluctuations - not only NASA!)

That's right, Earth is believed to perennially speed up and slow down - by a sizeable 3.4% factor(the difference between 29.29km/s and 30.29km/s).
This is no small speed difference: it means that Earth would be traveling about 3600 km/h faster (3X the speed of sound) in January than it does in July!
The illusion is easily explained though: as illustrated above, the Sun is about 3.4% closer to us in January than it is in July. Hence, the perceived speed difference.

Now here's the thing: in the Tychosium, of course, the Sun "substitutes" Earth as the annually orbiting body. Hence, if those Keplerian velocity variations were true, there would be no chance in hell or heaven for the Sun's celestial positions in the Tychosium to match (almost perfectly, as they do) with those of the Stellarium simulator. This, because if this 3.4% speed variation existed, it would cause the Sun (in the Tychosium simulator) to dramatically disagree with the Stellarium simulator by up to 49 minutes of celestial longitude (a.k.a. Right Ascension / or RA), 49 min of RA being 3.4% of 1440 min (i.e. 360°). Yet, this is certainly not the case: the occasional disagreements / discrepancies between the two simulators amount to no more than +/-2 minutes of RA over several centuries (beyond which they will slowly drift apart due to the Tychos' proposed year-length adjustment - see Chapter 32 of my book).

In conclusion:

- The Tychosium provides irrefutable proof that the Sun moves at a constant speed around a uniformly circular / non-elliptical orbit.

- It doesn't matter whether the Sun revolves around Earth or vice versa, since the same would hold true in both cases: constant speed / uniformly circular orbit.

- The Keplerian "laws" of planetary motions are thus roundly disproved - once and for all times.

I rest my case. And once more I'll venture to say... that the TYCHOS is here to stay.

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 10:41 pm
by Peaker
Hello All,

This most recent post of yours is a subtle one. Every few hours since reading it, it returns to my thoughts and I find myself going through it once again. In it seems to be the very heart of the matter.

The What comes before the Why.

What is this 'Solar System' and, once we have extablised that: 'Why we should care'.

Cluesforum goes all out on establishing the 'what' on many important matters. Without first establishing 'what' has occurred or is occurring there is no way of ever knowing why.

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:06 pm
by Peaker
Hello to all out there reading up on our Solar System.

I am trying to get the ball rolling here on Retrograde Motion. Who in this wide forum knows his stuff? What is, or what are the standard explanations for it? I have been googling away and find there is more than one...not including Simon's of course! Has anyone attempted to reconcile these? or is it like the Wild West with a sheriff in each town calling the shots?

And the time-lapse photography showing Mars in a definite loop. Is there no cross-examination of this evidence anywhere? Shouldn't these photos alone bring into question our current model? As an aside, as I was reading The Tychos last year I contacted the photographer as I was intending to buy some prints and some emails passed between us but when he asked how I had heard of him all communications ceased abrubtly. What gives? Has anyone here had a similar experience? BTW I would like to get my hands on a a poster print of the time-lapse retrograde motion of Mars. What a conversation piece.

I could go off and search the web all on my own but would prefer to use the resources of this forum for now. What say you all?


There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:08 pm
by patrix
I and Simon have discovered when discussing with one seasoned astronomer and a student by email that the issues Simon brings up cannot be addressed by them. The things we have got back (besides belittling and name calling) is mainly that the TYCHOS model cannot be correct because that would violate the Laws of Newton and that is like saying an apple does not fall to the ground.

The explanation for the retrogrades is theoretical and undemonstrable. They supposedly occur because the Earth passes the other planets and they're thus illusory. Overall the Copernican model works (to some extent) only when the planetary positions in relation to each other are considered, but fails miserably when the stars are taken into account.

I must say I am pretty amazed that Simon's work has proven to be so extremely solid. Perhaps we should chip in to and do a Stefan Lanka* ? 100000 euro to anyone that can prove that the Earth orbits the Sun. If it gets to count it would give this falsifiable claim and Simon's work some well deserved attention. But who knows what the court would rule?

*Stefan Lanka is a German biologist who offered 100000 euro to anyone that could prove the existence of the measels virus. It went to court and Stefan Lanka eventually won the case and could keep the money.

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:41 am
by Peaker
Hello All,

I am talking to a friend about the ESI of Mars. The oddity of seven of Mars year being longer than the eighth.

Where can I find this stated in astronomy literature? I’m not getting any results with a Google search and he is asking for my sources.

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:03 pm
by simonshack
Peaker wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:41 am Hello All,

I am talking to a friend about the ESI of Mars. The oddity of seven of Mars year being longer than the eighth.

Where can I find this stated in astronomy literature? I’m not getting any results with a Google search and he is asking for my sources.
Dear Peaker,

It should be of little surprise that so little is to be found in astronomy literature regarding this empirically observable fact, i.e. that Mars has TWO ESI's (Empiric Sidereal Intervals). The long ESI lasts for about 707 days, whereas the short ESi lasts for just about 546 days: since this fact has no rational explanation in the Copernican model, it is simply shunned and "kept under wraps", so to speak.

Here are three relevant links you may send to your friend:

"Ancient Maya documents concerning the movements of Mars" : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC29390/

Chapter 6 of my TYCHOS book: https://www.tychos.info/chapter-6/

My Appendix paper "WHY MARS?" (in PDF format): http://septclues.com/TYCHOS%20Appendix% ... 20MARS.pdf

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:20 pm
by Peaker
Thankyou for these links Simon,

They are helpful. Would Brahe himself have tracked and noted the Sidereal movements of Mars? Or, for instance, is there any astronomer currently doing so? Could an appeal be made to any amateur to come forward to reveal what he knows? A competition in an Astronomy magazine?

A bit of free-association here :rolleyes:

Anyway, since you are familiar with the night sky, I have a question about the Orion Nebula. On one night last year I could see it clearly with my naked eye . . . I was surprised as it had never appeared so before. I was at my telescope, so I viewed it through the scope as well. I thought this nebula was only seen with infra-red. Not much of a question I guess.

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:53 pm
by simonshack
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Dear all,

Not only astronomers but pretty much the whole world is currently talking about the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction due to occur tomorrow December 21, 2020.

"Jupiter and Saturn’s great conjunction is December 21" : https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentia ... ec-21-2020

Here's how it checks out on the TYCHOSIUM simulator, ladies and gentlemen:

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Lovely, isn't it? ;)

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:48 am
by patrix
A live demonstration of the absurdity of heliocentrism

Hello dear Cluesforumers. Just a quick update. Working on camera in Tychosium right now. Still work in progress but if you go to

https://codepen.io/pholmq/full/XGPrPd

and open Camera and set Sun as target you will see the model from a Copernican vista. Then go to Objects and turn on stars. This illustrates the absurdity that is required in heliocentrism - it's just a new type of geocentrism where the entire universe except the planets follow Earth while it orbits the Sun. That is what is required since the stars stay in the same place during the year.

And this was pointed out by Tycho Brahe four hundred years ago... B)

https://www.tychos.info/foreword/

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:50 pm
by patrix
A demonstration on how the northern star changes according to the TYCHOS

Open up Tycohsium https://codepen.io/pholmq/full/XGPrPd

Then go to Objects and enable Stars and Polar line. Increase the line length so that it reaches Polaris. (The stars are unrealistically close so they can be seen at the same time as the Solar system. With the star distance slider you can move them further out.)

Now click in the date field and enter "1" in front of 2000 and press Enter which will bring you to the year 12000. Notice how the north axis of Earth due to its PVP-orbit has moved so that it points to a place near the star Vega.

Click in the date field again and replace "1" with a minus sign and press Enter. This will take you to year 2000 BC. Note that the nothern star was Thuban at this time.

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:47 pm
by simonshack
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THE TYCHOSIUM'S "EXPLANATORY POWER"

Dear all, today I would like to illustrate how the wondrous Tychosium 3D simulator can help us understand some fundamental aspects of life on Earth, namely the seasonal fluctuations of our (northern hemisphere's / European) temperatures. For the last thirty years or so I've been living in the outskirts of Rome (Italy) and have often been wondering why Roman summers and winters can have such substantial temperature variations. To be sure, summer in Rome can be sweltering hot (reaching "African" temperatures of up to 40°C), whereas winter can be pretty damn cold (several degrees below 0°C)... For instance, in February 2012 we had an abundant snowfall and record-low temperatures of about -7.5°C.

Here's a picture from my garden in the winter of 2012:

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Yet, in the summer months, Rome can be almost unbearably hot (so much so that I often migrate to my homeland Sweden for some 'heat relief'). Now, it is one thing to know that the Earth's axis is tilted at 23.4° (and that this goes to explain these seasonal temperature variations) but it is quite another thing to visualize precisely how this axial tilt affects the northern hemisphere. Well, this is when the Tychosium simulator does a great job explaining VISUALLY just what causes these stark seasonal variations. Of course, since Earth's axis is tilted by 23.4° vis-à-vis the ecliptic, this means that it will 'flip' by a hefty 46.8° (23.4 X 2) between summer and winter.

The below screenshot from the Tychosium shows how the sunrays will be angled (almost perpendicularly) in relation to Rome at the summer solstice (June 21):

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The below screenshot from the Tychosium shows how the sunrays will be angled (almost 'tangently') in relation to Rome at the winter solstice (December 21):

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No wonder then that Rome (which most people - including myself - usually think of as a "warm / southernly location") can be bitterly cold in the winter!

Re: The TYCHOSIUM: Proving the TYCHOS with 3D modeling

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 9:18 pm
by simonshack
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UNDERSTANDING SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE (part 1: the Moon)

Dear all, today I wish to clarify a puzzling matter that has had many skywatchers (including myself) scratching their heads; namely, the question of our Moon's seemingly bizarre 'behaviour' and apparently fluctuating tilts / orientations as viewed from Earth. To be sure, spatial perspective is a quite challenging subject matter - especially when it comes to astronomical observations, what with all its angular variables (diverse earthly locations / observational frames of reference, oscillating seasonal tilts, latitudes & longitudes of our moons and planets, etc). This present exercise will also provide another opportunity to demonstrate the usefulness of the Tychosium 3D simulator and what I like to call its "explanatory power".

Incidentally, what follows should also be of prime interest to 'earnest & serious flat earth proponents' (if such individuals do indeed exist), since it has to do with our Moon's observed orientation as viewed from different earthly locations. Please excuse my mild sarcasm, but I'll be holding my breath and be eagerly awaiting for their attempts at justifying and account for what I am about to expound and illustrate...

The other day, I was lucky enough to find two photographs of our Moon captured on the same night (February 27, 2013) from two almost diametrically opposed locations on Earth (Hickory, USA - and Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA). Here's where you can read about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotograp ... emisphere/

Here are the original two photos snapped by the two astrophotographers located on 'either side' of the Earth:
(Note: for the sake of clarity and ease of orientation, I have highlighted with a red dot the Moon's famous "Tycho" crater.

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- At left: photo by "Rustin788" on the night of February 27, 2013 - from Hickory, North Carolina (USA) located at 35.73°N, 81.34°W

- At right: photo by "BigDeadPixel" on the night of February 27, 2013 - from Pretoria (SOUTH AFRICA) located at 25.7256°S, 28.2439°E


Now, the first question that you might ask is: "Since the two photographers were located at 'either side' of Earth, why aren't the two photos tilted at 180°?

Well, this is when we need to consider and factor into the 'perspective equation' the different LATITUDES of the two locations - as illustrated below:

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In other words, if we should perform a thought exercise aimed at "equalizing" the perspectives of these two Moon photos, we need to take into account BOTH the inverted (by 180°) angles / earthly frames of reference of the two photographers - AND the angular width between the latitudes of their earthly locations which amounts to : 35.73°+ 25.7256° = 61.4556°

In my below graphic, I have done just that:

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As you can see, as we judiciously 'compensate' for the two photographers' locations, we may say that they actually snapped near-identical pictures of our Moon - only slightly displaced laterally, due to the longitudinal difference between their frames of reference in the USA and in SOUTH AFRICA (81.34°W versus 28.2439°E).

You might now ask the $1million question: "Can the Tychosium 3D simulator actually visualize precisely why these two photos show the angles / orientations of our Moon's surface features just as they do?"

Yes indeed :

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That's all for now, folks - hope you enjoyed this umpteenth proof of our planet's spherical shape - flat earthers notwithstanding! ^_^