I suspect some expert will come in and tell us that there is some fundamental of orbital mechanics which correlated to the observations. That is, stable planetary systems have orbits that correlate with the area of the orbit (the square of the distance from the star)
I recall one of the earliest breakthroughs in orbital mechanics was someone figuring out how the area of a slice of a elliptical orbit was the same anywhere in the orbit, when the angle of the arc is calculated as a unit of time and not degrees.
Not to say you’re wrong. I think you’re right, but the quality you’re attributing to the system is a behavior of the system that has an underlying link to physics that may already be well explored. Just nobody has bothered to put a pretty plot in front of us armchair types and students before.
> I recall one of the earliest breakthroughs in orbital mechanics was someone figuring out how the area of a slice of a elliptical orbit was the same anywhere in the orbit, when the angle of the arc is calculated as a unit of time and not degrees.
That would be Kepler's second law. It states that a line between the sun and the planet sweeps equal areas in equal periods of time.
I recall one of the earliest breakthroughs in orbital mechanics was someone figuring out how the area of a slice of a elliptical orbit was the same anywhere in the orbit, when the angle of the arc is calculated as a unit of time and not degrees.
Not to say you’re wrong. I think you’re right, but the quality you’re attributing to the system is a behavior of the system that has an underlying link to physics that may already be well explored. Just nobody has bothered to put a pretty plot in front of us armchair types and students before.