Recent content by Standing Bear

Somebody consult a good scientific major grade physics text to see the gravitational force equations in their differential form.

As a skater drawing her legs in while doing a spin and then accelerates her spin in a demonstration of conservation of angular momentum, so too would planets gradually losing orbital distance if they are too close to the star remnant. However, this would be the case with normal solar systems...

One poster confused rotation speed with orbital velocity, and another talked about gravitational radiation perturbing an orbit. The gist of orbital velocity is that orbiting objects are always 'falling' with a certain Vf=Vo(sin alpha) where alpha is dependent on the radial distance from the...