Ok, I searched the Internet and found a physics PhD who says no, it wouldn’t oscillate forever. Luckily he gave the actual reason which makes sense.
The oscillation of the string Induces a compression/tension cycle at the bends of the wire near the ends. Locally this causes heating up and energy will be lost as it flows from hot to cold. Eventually you lose your energy of the vibration.
All right, that makes sense. I must have missed where you posted that detailed explanation.
The evidence that supports your theory that our orbit returns to some normal is that we haven’t observed a change in our orbit despite having it periodically perturbed by other objects.
That would require we have been able to observe the perturbations in the first place.
You just keep making it up when you obviously know better.
You don’t have to measure an effect to observe it and know it occurred.
The math tells us that any object that with gravity that interacts with us affects our orbit which you even admitted until you saw it was hurting your argument.
When you have an honest, fact based argument to make by all means do so, it will be a refreshing change.
I’m not hiding anything, you keep making false claims about what I’ve said and I merely call you on them. They are all documented above.
Observe? Yes, Measure no, physics tells us whether they are observed measured, or go unnoticed every object interaction with our gravity affects our orbit to varying degrees, which you even admitted until like many other things you realized that the truth would not support or help your arguments.
We know the objects pass us, we know their gravity affects our orbit, yet we also know that in spite of them we can document back as far as 75,000 years that our orbit has remained relatively stably throughout the long term.
The only way that is possible is that after those objects pass us we return eventually to the same predicable, observed, orbital cycle.
We can document even more accurately recent history, and predict our position accurately at any point in the future absent some new force changing the equilibrium of the entire system.
The funny part is that he admitted over a thousand posts ago that it’s quite possible NEO’s have affected our orbit and climate in the past but still won’t give up attempting to discredit the theory because I’m the one who initially posited it.
He just can’t let it go because he’s so desperate to find some way to show me to be wrong.
You didn’t read the post did you. I said IF that object had not collided with Earth it would have changed our orbit. (It most likely changed our obit when it collided too, but that’s a different discussion.) It’s no wonder you are so easily confused.
Yes, it is required to you to be able to make this statement. This relates to the idea of a null hypothesis.
In order to make this claim you need to know that we have been able observe a perturbation in our orbit. If any such alteration of our orbit were so tiny that it was below our ability to detect, then there would be no difference between what we calculated and observed even though such a perturbation did happen and did not magically revert to some “normal”.
Now, obviously we have only been able to measure highly accurately in the last 100 years. I dare say that these ancient observatories (its 75,000 years now, this number keeps getting bigger, last time it was 40,000, just where do you think we’ve been able to document our planetary orbit that long ago) had far less sensitivity to detect small changes.
Now supposedly you think we’ve observed such a change but can’t seem to think of any examples. Makes me wonder if you are just making it up.
No where have I stated that we have observed or measured such perturbations.
Physics however tells us unequivocally that they occur whether or not we even notice them.
Again, an honest argument on your part would be such a refreshing and wonderful change. I’ve learned not to expect it, but it would still be none the less if you ever attempted same.
Again, something occurred 4 billion years ago in a very different type of environment.
That sort of large mass objects are no longer flying around the solar system precisely due to collisions like the one that created the moon.
I’m not here to talk about everything that’s “possible” because there’s no end to it. It’s possible aliens built a huge mirror which warmed the planet for millions of years before it as removed. Can anyone here say it’s not possible?