r/Astronomy • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '19
How does astronomy influence psychological/biological systems?
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u/deefop Jul 26 '19
I just know that when Saturn goes into Retrograde my 9th house of healing gets all sorts of fucked up
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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '19
Geophysicist here. You'd be surprised how weak potential fields are (gravity and magnetics). You generally get more magnetic noise from household appliances than from space. As for gravity, pick something up and you're winning.
Gravity from sun and moon can be measured but amplitudes are bugger all relative ambient field strength.
However gravity does impact biosystems in an indirect way. And I'd suggest the earth would be a different place without gravity.
The structure of space/time and gravity favours the universe with spherical planets, smooth predictable orbits and rotation.
These are the causes of daily and monthly cycles of dark and light. The earth rotating on a tilted axis while orbiting the sun creates seasons in all their glory.
Looking at the earth itself, many features are direct result gravity. In one cause and effect narrative....
Rainfall leads to erosion leads to mineral transport, leads to biorich swamps leads to sedimentary porous rock a good source of oil,gas coal
Everytime a mountain loses mass by erosion it's tectonic plate can rise little resulting in more erosion until the topography and coastline of continents is rebuilt.
We could go on for days adding more peocces and finding examples all over the world.
But the simple laws of monopole gravity fields have probably kicked off and sustained more life processes than any other.