Why do our Solar System travels the same path in our Galaxy.?
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It has to do with the initial formation of the solar system. A star and solar system forms basically of leftovers of stars that have gone nova or supernova, just star gas and leftover material. These begin to collect and become more dense as gravity pulls on them. This gas then become more solid in some places and the particles or planetesimals will have speed, initial speed from the formation process as the object swirls. Then, over millions of years some of the solid objects collide and become bigger, eventually forming planets. Since the initial swirling gas gave all the materials speed in the same direction then this does not change generally when they become planets.
forces of gravity
the suns exertion of gravity on every other planet
it seems that dark matter may play a large role in gravity or keeping things i.e. , planets etc. semi- organized
same as what?
Our solar system travels around the core of our Milky Galaxy. The Milky Way galaxy travels toward the outskirts of the universe as all other galaxies are doing.
Our solar system is gravatationally held in place by the remaining stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
gravity
If I'm understanding your question correctly, you're asking why our solar system travels in the same path as our galaxy...well the answer is simple: Our "solar system" is a part of our "galaxy". We have no other "choice" in which to move, because our galaxy carries us through space with it. I think that maybe you're not getting the correct picture in your mind about our solar system in relation to our Milky Way galaxy. Every planet in the solar system travels around our Sun in a counter-clockwise path. And all indications, as comparing stars within our own galaxy to the position of other galaxies, gives us the direction in which we are travelling.
Our solar system orbits the milkyway
the milkyway orbits inside our local group (cluster of galaxies)
our local group orbits inside a globular cluster
etc. etc. etc
There is no force to distract its path.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i think you mean to ask: Why do the planets in the Solar System travel the same paths (i mean, the rotating around the sun thing)?
essentially, the correct forces at work here would have to be GRAVITY and INERTIA.
we all know gravity. inertia on the other hand, is the resistance of an [object] to change its motion. this is the reason why in a car, when you turn to the left or the right, your body tend to move the opposite way.
initially, when you travel in a car, both the car and you travel in the same direction and at the same speed. when you swerve the car to the left or to the right, the car changes direction obviously. but since you're travelling along with the car, your body has to follow suit as well. you feel inertia when you begin to lean to the opposite direction, because your body tries to resist the force to change direction and instead maintain the current direction your body is moving in. when you lean the opposite way, you're actually trying to move in the original direction you were moving in.
regarding the Solar System, all the planets therein are actually moving "in a straight line", doing a drive-by to the Sun. think of a line right beside a ball. the line symbolizes the path that the planet "wants" to move in. but we all know that the Sun's gravity tries to make the planets move towards it, so the straight line that the planets "want" to follow is bent towards the Sun.
but remember that the planets have inertia, in the sense that they want to keep moving in a straight line. because of this, the planets are continously trying to move AWAY from the Sun, while the Sun makes them move TOWARDS it, effectively creating a somewhat circular path of revolution for the planets around the Sun.
as a point of comparison, without gravity, the planets would just hurtle through space in a straight line. there wouldn't be a Sun to call our own, because the Earth wouldn't have stayed near it for long anyway.
without inertia, once the force of gravity of the Sun starts to affect the planets' movement, the planets would INSTANTANEOUSLY move towards the Sun in a very sharp turn (think of a sharp corner - somewhat like a jerk in movement), and eventually get eaten by it.
Everything in space is moving outward, from the center point
of the so-called "Big Bang". However, they have all developed
a circular orbit around each other which is odd in itself.
Here on earth, from atoms which are round, to the planet itself,
"round" seems to be the norm.
Because of a balance between inertia and gravity. Although, I would like to point out that we do not travel the same path every year, our path seems the same, but we are moving at the same relative velocity with the sun, away from the epicenter of the big-bang. I think it's something like 60 km per parsec. So, to us, it's not even noticable...
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