"Disturbing Circles..."

.... there seems to be no doubt that the occurrence of solar eclipses and planetary conjunctions, for example, are calculated based on the time interval of the fundamental tropical year (a). These observed celestial phenomena are, in fact, not derived from a roughly twenty minutes longer orbital period of our Earth around its Sun.

Conforming to the laws of geometry, there can only be one 360-degree orbit period of the Earth around the Sun - either the tropical year or the so-called sidereal year.

It is argued that each of these years or orbit periods are defined with respect to two different frames of reference: a moving and a non-moving origin. Astronomers, therefore, consider the reference frame of the fixed stars as the non-moving origin and the equinoctial points as the moving origin.

The regression of the stars is an observed phenomenon, yet astronomers who apparently make no assumptions about its cause assert that our Sun (speak solar system) does not move in space.

What they fail to recognize is the simple fact that the so-called moving origin (the equinox) is actually a fixed frame of reference within a moving system, while the fixed stars represent a fixed point outside the moving reference frame of our solar system.

Precise mathematical equations that describe the observed phenomena occurring within our solar system (eclipse cycles, planetary conjunctions, etc.) do not rely on an outside frame of reference. Since the 360-degree equinoctial cycle of our Earth reflects physical reality, it is not a matter of finding out if our solar system moves or curves through space but what causes it to move.

Uwe & Karl-H. Homann