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That looks like just the ticket! Unfortunately I need to wait until I get home to click the link. Doing so is not in the interests of my employer. 
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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That's a very cute explanation of particle collapses.
Shame it's not believed to be relevant to our solar system.
Lookit: if one of the big lumps of our solar system were to decide to go off in a non-planar orbit (as they have many times in the past, through collisions, etc.), the gravity of all the other, lumps whizzing past them would slowly pull them back into the plane, and also "correct" their velocities.
To avoid that, they would need something to give them a drastic change in velocity.
So, the rule is: If you want to jump out of the plane, take a parachute.
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Space Weevils.
They nest in rocks, and obviously grouped them together to make building nests easier...
[In reality it's Conservation of Momentum: when gravity collapsed the original cloud the solar system was formed from, this caused the trivial spin it started with (the average "movement" of all molecules was in one direction or the other, a "zero-average" momentum is a very unlikely case) to increase in the same way that a ballerina pulling her arms inward spins faster.
Once the mass is spinning "properly" a disk forms as it's the least-energy configuration.
Same thing happens with planets and moons on a smaller scale.]
But I prefer the Space Weevils.
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OriginalGriff wrote: But I prefer the Space Weevils Sheep.
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Sheep?
Sheep don't make nests!
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The universe if flat and if you go too far you fall off.
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That's going too far.
Toodles!
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It's like gravity, Man.
The big lumps are trying to fly away from the Sun, but they're also pulling each other together, so the only way they can go is to align on a plane.
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The answer is simple. Me and Chuck Norris agreed it should be this way.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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He's the guy who rick-rolled Rick Astly.
He's the guy who can strangle you with a cordless phone.
He's the guy who invented lowercase letters - to show the capital letters who's boss.
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Yeah I've just googled Sounds like a raging Homosexual.
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How do you google "sounds" like a raging homosexual? By delicately typing with a lisp?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It looks like you're failing to undrestand the gravity of the situation.
I always wear my coat, guess why?
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well one can imagine a bunch of planet have the stupidest orbit around their sun.. indeed one planet in our solar system is not in the same plane as the other!
http://cnx.org/resources/9e49b805527d2cdca109afcb51e660a9/graphics8.png[^]
However solar systems begin as cloud of dust. Motes above that plane as they cross it / fall keep hitting motes from below the plan which are going up ending up nullifying each other.
And when they finally merge into planets and suns, this process has already flattened everything!!
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I don't wonder why any more but chalk up the true reason as being due to the accretion-disk theory explanation that attributes attitude to energy state as that is related to the passage of vast amounts of time. When I did wonder about the apparent flatness, I was looking at only our solar system and that was the cause of the mystification. Once I saw that galaxies were helterskelter out-of-sorts in the cosmically planar way, I realized that what I was confused about was actually this question: why don't the planes of the star-planet-orbital-systems all align to galactic spiral orientation? Etc.
If you could show me a relatively good representation of a 2-D model of the solar system from which you are having this problem, preferably after punching some numbers into a Mandelbrot/Julian Set simulator, I would be willing to help you out by aiding you further.
But I'm afraid this question is better posted here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1712597/Uncategorised-posts.aspx[^]
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God likes flat things.
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Magnetism I think, not sure
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Happened to see a talk by Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson last week. While discussing the many things he admits we don't know much about yet (dark matter, dark energy, etc), I want to say he mentioned something along this line.
I think I remember him saying that we don't know what causes the rotation of the gas cloud to start in the first place.
Once it starts, though, the material in the cloud will accrete into a more-or-less planar structure.
I think that was also part of why Pluto was reclassified; they feel that, it was one of these Kuyper belt objects which got dislodged from its normal planar orbit by a passing object, probably another star.
But I'm probably way off on what I think I remember and know.
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Get yourself a little gyroscope and play around with it. Put some water on it and spin it. Maybe food coloring to more easily see the path of where the water spins off. Then consider if that gyro was huge so its gravity could hold things (water drops, ice, rocks, whatev).
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Actually you are correct. Though this video is not 100% correct. It does help you understand how the planets are pulled thru the galaxy
Video [^]
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Stars form when cold clouds of gas condense under their own gravitational attraction. However, any angular momentum the cloud has, due to its slow rotation, will cause the rotation to speed up as the cloud contracts, just like an ice-skater pulling in their arms, due to conservation of angular momentum. There may come a point when the material is spinning too fast to accrete on the central star and it may spin away. However, friction can cause some material to gain angular momentum and fly away whilst most of the material loses angular momentum and falls inwards. However, this only works if the material approaches the star more-or-less at an equatorial angle. Material trying to come in from the poles will be unable to lose sufficient angular momentum and is spun away. As the star forms, you have an equatorial accretion disc of in-falling matter accompanied by polar jets of outgoing matter. Any material left-over in the equatorial disc after accretion stops will be able to form planets.
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