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May 3, 2024, 4:42 am UTC    
August 11, 2011 08:47PM
Hi Jammer,

If you are going to quote me please be accurate:
I did not say disprove the laws of Physics, but violate the laws of Physics.

Here is one such item:
[articles.latimes.com]

Scientists have discovered a planet that shouldn't exist. The finding, they say, could alter our understanding of orbital dynamics, a field considered pretty well settled since the time of astronomer Johannes Kepler 400 years ago.
The problem is that a planet that close should be consumed by its parent star in less than a million years, say the authors at Keele University in Britain. The star Wasp-18 is believed to be about a billion years old, and because stars and the planets around them are thought to form at the same time, Wasp-18b should have been reduced to cinders ages ago.

That's a paradox," said Douglas P. Hamilton, an astronomer at the University of Maryland who wrote a commentary accompanying the report. He said there were a variety of possible explanations, none of them very satisfactory.

It would imply that science doesn't understand the composition and characteristics of sunlike stars as well as it thought it did.

The final possibility is that "we're just missing something -- there is some property of stars or tides that we just don't understand," Hamilton said.

"Perhaps we really are missing some key bit of physics," Hamilton wrote in his commentary.


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