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The helical model - our solar system is a vortex

DjSadhu · 9.2M views · 2012-08-25 · 3:21

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An animation presenting a non-standard helical or vortex model of the solar system, in which the planets trail the Sun through space instead of orbiting in flat circles. The model is a non-conventional view that the author says differs from standard diagrams.

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HN mostly cites it as the closest available visualization of the Earth's path through space, with caveats that it is exaggerated and inaccurate.

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mikk14 · 2026-07 · Reference

In fact the planets aren't orbiting the sun. They're orbiting the galactic center, and the sun just happens to disturb their orbits a bit: [VIDEO]

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jumploops · 2025-09 · Reference

"North" is better correlated with the direction of travel that our planet/solar system is moving within[0] Given the context in our movement compared to the milky way, maybe it's better to have East/West for top/bottom, with the poles on each edge of the map ;) [1] Or better yet, let's make the top of the map Galactic North, instead of Celestial North :P [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]

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westurner · 2025-06 · Reference

Is it that there is not enough mass beyond the 30k-50k Kelvin wall at the edge of the solar system to attract away things with mass that can carry thermal energy; that thermal mass clumps in the well around the edges and only wisps away, or is that a sidewall boundary of a black hole? Where is Planet X in relation to said wall of energy density? Said wall is only sampled by the Voyager probes with a few exit trajectories? Does said thermal wall extend all the way around the solar system, or is it mostly on one side of the sun; is it a directional coronal wake? Is there symmetry in said thermal wall around the trajectory of the sun? Is this better explained with SQR Superfluid Quantum Relativity? Are there other phases of matter at those temperatures? From the article: > "As the heliosphere plows through interstellar space, a bow shock forms, similar to what forms as a ship plowing through the ocean So fluidic space wind and fluidic nonlinear bow shock wakes. Are there additional heat walls beyond (and probably also before) the first, as there are with more laminar boat wakes? Is there a gravitational wave "bow shock", too? "The Heliosphere" [LINK] From "Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens" [LINK] : > "The helical model - our solar system is a vortex" [VIDEO] Where are planet X and the heat wall (and/or side wall) in this vortical model of the solar system?

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