“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

— Steve Jobs (Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005)

Astronomical Data & Tools

These are the primary tools and data sources used in the calculations for the Holistic Universe Model.

JPL Horizons — ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons  A federally funded research and development center managed for NASA by Caltech. The JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemeris computation service provides access to key solar system data and flexible production of highly accurate ephemerides for solar system objects.

• JPL Astronomical Constants 

Webgeocalc (WGC) — wgc.jpl.nasa.gov  Provides a web-based graphical user interface to many of the observation geometry computations available from the “SPICE” system.

• Earth against J2000 (ICRF)
• Planets against ECLIPJ2000_DE405

NASA Space Place — spaceplace.nasa.gov  Understandable content about our solar system.

Wikipedia Constants — Astronomical Constant 

Astronomy Textbooks

Free astronomy books available online.

• Introduction to Astronomy and Cosmology (PDF) 
• Astronomy on OpenStax (Source 1) 
• Astronomy on OpenStax (Source 2) 
• Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus (PDF) 
• The Copernican Revolution by Thomas Kuhn (PDF) 

Precession & Earth’s Motion

Key Research Papers

• Inclination, Axial & Obliquity Precession Connection (PDF)  — The paper where I got the idea for the Inclination precession, Axial precession and Obliquity precession to be connected to each other and their impact on climatic precession. Formula: 1/25,770 – 1/68,000 = 1/41,000
• Physics Forums Discussion  — References to the same kind of formula: Obliquity is 1/25765 - 1/70000 = 1/40772
• Khan Academy: Apsidal Precession & Milankovitch Cycles  — Milankovitch Cycles

Background Information

• Wikipedia: Axial Precession  — Axial Precession
• Earth’s Motions 
• Coordinate Changes (UVA)  — Note: sometimes the mentioned motions are incorrect
• Why does Earth’s axis move opposite to its rotation?  — The direction is counter-clockwise

The 9.12ms Mystery

• Karl-Heinz Homann: Precession Background (Archive) 
• Karl-Heinz Homann: Poleshift 
• Uwe Homann: Precession Paradigm 
• Karl-Heinz Homann: Great Dreams 
• Binary Research Institute: Lunar Cycle 
• Uwe Homann: Journal of Theoretics (PDF) 

Related Work

• Robert Tulip: Physics of Astrological Ages (PDF) 
• Robert Tulip: Precessional Structure of Time (PDF) 
• Duncan Steel: EOaCCC (PDF) 
• Duncan Steel: PPPIGW (PDF) 
• The Sun and the Stars are Set in Motion (ResearchGate)  — A helpful read for understanding all motions. The conclusions differ from this book. Heliocentric

Milankovitch Cycles & Climate

• Wikipedia: Milankovitch Cycles  — Milankovitch Cycles
• Skeptical Science: Climate Relation 
• The 100,000 Year Problem (PDF)  — 100k year problem
• Milankovitch: Father of Paleoclimate Modelling (PDF) 
• Modified Milankovitch Theory (PDF) 
• A Brief History of Climate Change (UK) 

Planetary Events & Catalogues

Transits

• Mercury Transit Catalogue (NASA) 
• Venus Transit Catalogue (NASA) 

Oppositions & Conjunctions

• Mars Opposition Dates  — Opposition
• Triple Conjunction Dates (Wikipedia)  — Note: sometimes incorrect
• List of Future Astronomical Events (Wikipedia)  — Note: sometimes incorrect

Orbital Elements

• Ascending & Descending Nodes Visualized  — Ascending node, Descending node
• Wikipedia: Orbital Resonance 

Fibonacci, Golden Ratio & Natural Patterns

Videos

• The Golden Ratio: Myth or Math  — All plants show a ratio of 8:13. Golden ratio
• Fibonacci Sequence in Nature  — Fibonacci
• Fibonacci: Fact or Fiction  — Nature is a mathematician
• Fibonacci Sequence and Orbital Resonances 
• Planets in Sync with Each Other 

Spirals

• Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies (Medium)  — About the “golden spiral” which is actually a “logarithmic spiral” (also known as an “equiangular spiral”). This structure can be found in the way the barycenters are structured.
• Wikipedia: Logarithmic Spiral 
• Golden Ratio Myth: The Logarithmic Spiral 

Solar System Models

The TYCHOS Model

• TYCHOS Book & 3D Model  — “The TYCHOS: Our Geoaxial Binary Solar System” by Simon Shack
• TYCHOS Explanatory Video 1 
• TYCHOS Explanatory Video 2 

Solar System as a Vortex

• The Helical Model (Video) 
• Is the Solar System Really a Vortex? (Universe Today)  — Nice commentary about the video

Retrograde Motion

• Vulerulum (Instagram)  — Pictures of retrograde motion
• Vulerulum (Vimeo) 

Cosmology & Alternative Theories

Alternatives to Big Bang

• Wikipedia: Steady-State Model 
• Wikipedia: Static Universe 
• Wikipedia: Non-Standard Cosmology 

Cosmological Challenges

• NY Times: Cosmology Crisis (James Webb Telescope) 
• Glenn Borchardt: The Story of Our Universe May Be Unraveling 

On General Relativity

• Gravity Probe B (Archive)  — The longest-running project in NASA’s history. After NASA pulled the plug in 2008, private funding arranged by an executive at Capital One Financial and the royal family of Saudi Arabia bought extra time to clean up the data.
• Hafele-Keating Experiment Discussion (Wikipedia Talk) 

Perihelion Precession

• N-Body Gravity  — Gravity
• Mercury Perihelion  — Perihelion Precession of Mercury

The takeaway: the Perihelion Precession of Mercury is not fully explained by Einstein’s theory of relativity alone.

The Invariable Plane

• The Invariable Plane (PDF)  — This article gave me insight into the invariable plane concept.

Academic Search Engines

Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. Here are valuable academic search engines: