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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Please take this in the best sense, for so I mean it: could it be that you suffer from a failure of imagination?

Very probably; or at least in regards to this thread. Science observes what is, not what we 'want it to be.' Keep in mind who's the poet in this discussion, and whose imagination is sparking my own.

We are used to electrical currents of relatively minimal voltage. Then there is lightning. Imagine lightning strikes between planets that make lightning strikes in Earth's thunderstorms look like minor pricks. Then suppose there is electrical activity (99% of the universe is made of electrically charged particles) taking place in the formation of stars that makes lightning that flashes between planets look like static electricity shocks. Such activity would have a magnitude far exceeding that of gravity, which is in fact the weakest of the 4 known forces.

Sorry; I'm too limited. Suppose there are these megalightning strikes between planets, suns, etc. Do they work in concert to maintain the orbit of the planets - some pushing one way, some pushing the opposite so that nothing moves closer or away from the sun?

And I keep tripping over that F=ma equation I learned sometime back (force = mass times acceleration). If we assume that the mass of Venus is constant, then to move it from the outer to the inner part of the solar system is going to take some big-time F to get the ball rolling, and then again to get it to stop, especially if we have only so much time to do this in. More time, and we can accelerate/decelerate more slowly, and so less force is required (if I have that right). But we have only a few thousand years. So if this big force exists, why haven't we seen any large planet-sized bodies move in the last few hundred years?

Doesn't it ever bother anyone that all of the fun miracles and myths occurred when the data resolution was less than we have today? Why do those dragons live only on the edges of maps?