Was God a mathematician?

[rov1200]

Why is Bode's Law that correctly gave the spacing between planets so accurate and what is the reasoning for it?

http://www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses /astro201/bodes_law.htm

[jake-the-peg]

I think the jury's still out a bit on the Titus Bode law.

Remember he was creating a rule where he already had 6 of the data points - so it's not surprising that it fits those!

Then Neptune is a pretty poor fit and well Pluto's orbit is so irregular it hardly counts but it's role in the discovery of Ceres is what made it famous.

The real test of whether it's a reflection on some sort of harmonic in the condensing of proto-solar systems will be whether it holds up in a similar way for solar systems outside our own.


There's an interesting and very well informed discussion of that here:
http://www.bautforum.com/against-mainstream/67 011-bodes-law-extrasolar-planets.html

[rov1200]

What got me thinking about this is our universe throws up time and time again simple formulae that describes certain situations. ie E=mc^2 etc.

It seems the main reason for investing �millions in the Halron collider is to find the Higgs Bosun. Why is it necessary to find it? Because the formula without it is so unwieldy and exceedingly large. Only a designer could construct a model that is so complicated but easy to understand.

[Tim123]

An interesting argument, but it belongs in Religion & Spirituality.