作者君在作品相关中其实已经解释过这个问题。
不过仍然有人质疑——“你说得太含糊了”,“火星轨道的变化比你想象要大得多!”
那好吧,既然作者君的简单解释不够有力,那咱们就看看严肃的东西,反正这本书写到现在,嚷嚷着本书bug一大堆,用初高中物理在书中挑刺的人也不少。
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long-teringunstablewhenacloseencounteroccurssoprehensive,butitseeputationprocesses.inrelationtothis,wisdoparetheseintegrationssipletedallthecalculations.seesection4.1forparedtheresultofourparethetestintegrationwiththeposedintofrequencycoponentperunitpletelylinear,theorbitalenergyandtheangularponentoftheinnerfourplanetscalculatedfroparedwiththoseoftheouterjovianplanets.anotherthingwenoticeisthattheinnerplanetarysubsysteeunstableparedwiththatofthevenus–earthpair.
5±5x1010-yrintegrationsofouterplanetaryorbits
sincethejovianplanetaryeszero,i.e.thelongitudesofascendingnodesofneptuneandplutooverlap,theinclinationofplutobecoeses90°.whenθ3becoeseses90°again.williams&bensonanticipatedthistypeofresonance,laterconfirmedbymilani,nobili&carpino.
anargumentθ4=?p??n+3libratesaround180°withalongperiod,~5.7x108yr.
inournumericalintegrations,theresonances–arewellmaintained,andvariationofthecriticalargumentsθ1,θ2,θ3remainsimilarduringthewholeintegrationperiod.however,thefourthresonanceappearstobedifferent:thecriticalargumentθ4alternateslibrationandcirculationovera1010-yrtime-scale.thisisaninterestingfactthatkinoshita&nakai'sshorterintegrationswerenotabletodisclose.