Retrograde Planets Confound Theorists

Exoplanets have presented theorists with one headache after another.

(1) The first exoplanet was discovered orbiting a pulsar! (not
supposed to happen).

(2) Then they discovered Jupiter-mass planets orbiting VERY close to
their parent stars (not supposed to be possible).

(3) Then they discovered retrograde planets (planets which orbit in
the opposite direction from the parent star's rotation, which
conflicts with the dubious Laplacian cloud collapse formation model).

There is a simple explanation for all these results. The short
version is as follows.

Stars get their planetary systems exactly the same way that subatomic
nuclei get their electronic envelopes and "planetary" Rydberg
electrons. They CAPTURE them and the electronic structures eventually
settle into stable configurations, of which there are many, but they
become more stable as they "approach" the ground state of the combined
system.

A stellar system in a low energy state can be excited into a high
energy Rydberg atom analogue (the Solar System is an example of such a
system) by absorbing an appropriate (and discrete) amount of energy.

Hmmm, time for a new paradigm?
RLO
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