link to Home Page

Re: Planet X Cover-Up: Rationale?


In article <FaCD6.894$vT5.51760@weber.videotron.net>, Greg Neill wrote:
>JosX <joshb@mraha.kitenet.net> wrote in message
>news:9bm80r$9ok$1@news1.xs4all.nl...
>> In article <3ADE0A18.D59CD6F7@earthlink.net>, Michael L. Cunningham wrote:
>> Sorry Michael-boy: computers only make math-calculations /faster/.
>
>While pedantically correct, you miss the fact that computers also
>make formerly intractable problems solvable.  This is certainly
>true for high precision orbital integrations which take into account
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>all known perturbing effects and even relativistic effects.
>If you doubt, you should satisfy your curiosity by taking a look
>at the DEC200 or VSOP87 theories.  Information is available on the
>web via your favorite search engine.

100% correct. Which makes it all the more convincing because the wobbling
was so obvious it was even detectable by hand-math, let alone accelerated
computer math. The computers do indeed highten the /precicion/, but they
don't change the theories.... oh, yeah, we got PR for that... sorry.

Jos