[2] viXra:1004.0130 [pdf] submitted on 29 Apr 2010
Authors: Alon Retter
Comments:
17 pages.
This paper presents a remarkable analogy between the human society and Astronomy. Please keep
an open mind as the resemblance is not only qualitative but also quantitative. We point out many
similarities between stars and people, such as properties of grouping - single stars vs. singles, binary
stars vs. couples, cities vs. clusters, countries vs. galaxies, etc. Men and women are linked with cool
and hot stars. We match planets with children and attribute the two genders to gas and solid planets.
Moons are related with pets or grandchildren, asteroids with germs / viruses, accretion disks with
bellies and jets with pukes. Suicide attempts in people are associated with supernovae in stars.
Inflation is connected with the rapid growth of the embryo, and the time the universe became
transparent to light is linked with the human birth. A simple analogue to the cosmic background
radiation is the bellybutton, and the universe acceleration is coupled with the pace increase in
modern life. The mean values of the distributions of star multiples and the number of US
households are almost identical (2.04 and 2.03). Moreover, an amazing resemblance between
the two curves is evident (Fig. 1). The distribution of gas (or solid) planets is similar to that of boys
(or girls) as well, and the fit could improve once selection effects are considered. Monte Carlo
simulations suggest that our results are significant at a confidence level higher of ~99.9%! The
surprising linkage between humanity and stars can lead to many predictions. It is proposed that
about a third of stars harbor planets. We predict that stars are equally divided between hot and cool
stars and planets between gas and solid planets. The presence of four gas and four solid planets in
the solar system supports our prediction. We also forecast that the mean number of planets around
host stars should be near two, larger around binaries than in single stars and higher in hot stars than
in cool stars. We vision the presence of twin planets that share the same orbit. The wealth of known
extra-solar planets should already contain a few such systems. We forecast the presence of a new
astronomical phenomenon, which we alias 'planova' - an eruption in a planet that may destroy it,
and speculate about the presence of planet jets. The ideas and results of this paper are clearly
unusual and unbelievable. A brief explanation to our findings is presented in the discussion and
further developed in forthcoming papers.
Category: Astrophysics
[1] viXra:1004.0129 [pdf] submitted on 29 Apr 2010
Authors: Alon Retter
Comments:
7 pages.
We present a remarkable analogy between the human society and Astronomy. Please keep an open
mind as the resemblance is both qualitative and quantitative. We link stars and children with
persons and planets. The two genders are matched with cool and hot stars and with gas and solid
planets. The mean values of the distributions of star multiples and US households are almost
identical. Moreover, an amazing resemblance between the two curves is evident. In addition,
the distribution of gas / solid planets is similar to that of boys / girls as well, and the fit could
improve once selection effects are considered. Monte Carlo simulations suggest that our results
are significant at a confidence level of 99.9%! We thus predict that about a third of stars harbor
planets and that stars are equally divided between hot and cool stars and planets between gas and
solid planets. The presence of 4 gas and 4 solid planets in the solar system supports our prediction.
We forecast that the mean number of planets around host stars should be near two, and vision the
presence of twin planets that share the same orbit. The wealth of known extra-solar planets should
already contain a few such systems.
Category: Astrophysics