Our Solar System Provides Compelling Evidence Of A Binary Star System

Is the Sun Part of a Binary Star System? – Six Reasons to Consider

Ryan X

© Binary Research Institute



Sir Isaac Newton was the first to put forth the idea that this precession is due to a wobbly motion of the Earth’s axis, and few scientists have challenged this assumption since Newton’s time. Cruttenden dares to ask the most basic question about this in his book bringing together a number of clues to form a hypothesis for precession being the result of the Sun moving in a binary orbit about a companion star. Could Cruttenden’s speculations really lead to data that could overturn the ideas of Newton – a man treated like a deity in the world of physics and astronomy? As we’ll see below, there’s actually a large body of evidence to support Cruttenden’s ideas.

In his book, Cruttenden also offers some speculation about what ancient civilizations believed about this precessional cycle. Although, this part is not as strongly grounded in science, he speculates that as the Solar System makes its way through the points along this cycle, the nature of human civilization changes. At one extreme we have a Golden Age filled with peace, plenty and full social harmony; and at the other extreme an Iron Age filled with ignorance, war and social cacophony. The state of civilization depends on where we are in the cycle. Cruttenden points out that this shifting of the ages is recorded in Greek legends and in the legends of many other cultures around the world. This cycle implies that many civilizations with high technology – or perhaps just a more refined understanding of nature – may have come and gone through the many such “great years.” This also implies that our current civilization is by no means special (in contrast with the prevailing Darwinian view.)

Cruttenden even offers some speculation on what particular star this companion might be, focusing on Sirius as a possible candidate. While his arguments may seem reasonable, there’s much evidence in Picknett and Prince’s book The Stargate Conspiracy to point to the case for Sirius being overstated. I might even suggest reading The Stargate Conspiracy first before tackling Cruttenden’s book. Even if Cruttenden is off in his quest to locate the Sun’s companion, the evidence he’s gathered for the Binary model is compelling and worth the read. The interested reader may want to check what he has to say over at his Binary Research Institute, which mirrors much of what’s in his book. I’ve summarized some of the main scientific points he makes in his book below.

(1) Angular Momentum

When it comes to the Solar System, we have a big problem with angular momentum. This problem is related to the theory of how the Solar System formed out of a nebular cloud, otherwise known as the Nebular Condensation Theory. The theory was originally proposed by the christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg and further developed by Immanuel Kant and others. (How an idea proposed by a mystic becomes accepted scientifictheory is an interesting question, but one we’ll have to save for another time.) According to the theory, every nebula starts out with a certain amount of angular momentum. As the particles and gasses condense to form a central proto-star, the proto-star’s rotation should accelerate to conserve the total angular momentum. Think of an ice skater as she brings her arms and legs close to the vertical axis of rotation, spinning ever faster.


© Binary Research Institute Graph shows that the Sun’s angular momentum proportional to its mass is much smaller than the ratio for all the other planets.

Cruttenden proposes that if we factor in a hypothetical 24,000 year binary orbit shared with another star, then the missing angular momentum shows up in the Sun exactly where we’d expect it (see graph below.)


(2) Sheer Edge


© Binary Research Institute Here is the raw data showing that traceable objects of any size seem to end abruptly at about 50 AU.

This animation below shows how a sheer edge from a binary star system might form:

(3) Comet Paths


© Binary Research Institute Bias in the distribution of long-period comet orbits.


Since the earliest proposals of the ‘Nemesis Theory’ back in the 80’s, which attempted to explain the mass extinction cycle, the proponents of this theory hypothesized that a brown-dwarf star orbits about the Sun with a considerable period (roughly 26 million years, to match the average mass extinction rate). In fact, one of the objections raised against the original ‘Nemesis Theory’ by its opponents was that the period of time indicated by mass extinctions is much too long a time to suspect an orbiting body. Any orbit over such a long period of time just wouldn’t be stable.


(4) Sidereal vs. Solar Time

An interesting argument in favor of a binary system has to do with the two different ways of measuring the day length. One measurement is called the Solar Day, which we know is 24 hours. The other measurement is called the Sidereal Day which comes out slightly less at 23.56 hours. Given an observation point, like a star in the night sky, the Sidereal Day is the time it takes to reach that same point again in the sky after one full spin. Looking at the diagram below, one can see that the missing time is due to the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. If the Earth and Sun were traveling along parallel paths there wouldn’t be any difference between the Sidereal and the Solar Day – it’s the curved orbital motion of the Earth in orbit with the Sun that makes the difference. Most of us never worry about sidereal time since few people other than astronomers are interested in keeping track of time in the night sky.


© Binary Research Institute Depicts how precessional movement is accounted for in the Binary star model of the solar system.

However, when it comes to the difference between the Sidereal Year and the Solar (or Equinoctial, or Tropical) Year, we have a completely different explanation. There is about a twenty minute difference between the two, such that the Sidereal Year is always slightly ahead of the solar year – just like the sidereal day is slightly ahead of the solar day, by analogy. The accepted theory for this precessional movement is called the Lunisolar Theory (which has to do with the wobbling motion of the Earth’s axis, explained in greater detail below.) When dealing with the Sidereal Day versus Solar Day, we see that these differences are due to the extra orbital movement of the Earth around the Sun. So the question is: should the Sidereal Year be treated in the same manner? If the difference between the Sidereal Day and the Solar Day is the Earth’s orbit about the Sun, couldn’t the difference between the Sidereal Year and the Solar Year (known as precession) be due to the Sun’s orbit about another body? That’s how the analogy goes in any case. In the Binary Model both the Sidereal Day and the Sidereal Year are caused by the same type of Keplarian orbital motion.

(5) Time


First we need to understand what the mainstream theory has to say about precessional movement, or the precession of the equinoxes. The current theory, called the Lunisolar Theory, states that the Earth’s rotational axis also rotates tracing out the shape of a cone (see image to the right), changing its orientation very slowly – kind of like a spinning top. They call it the ‘Luni-solar’ theory because it is said that this top-like motion is caused by gravitational tidal forces coming from the Sun and the Moon. The idea is that it takes the Earth roughly 24,000-26,000 years to move its axis a full circle along this cone-like path. So the Lunisolar Theory would ostensibly seem to explain the precessional movement, although there is a problem (actually, several).

© NASA, Mysid The LuniSolar Theory of precession: is the Earth’s axis really tracing out a cone-like path every 24,000 years?




(6) Acceleration of Rate of Precession


© Binary Research Institute The rate of annual precession appears to be increasing.

Now if this were due to a top-like motion of the Earth’s axis a la the Luni-solar theory, then we should be able to extrapolate this trend out to millions of years – still a blink of the eye in terms of Earth’s history. This means that the precessional top-like movement would be so slow millions of years ago that it would be hardly noticeable. The Earth would hardly appear to wobble at all. Whereas if we look ahead millions of years, we would find the Earth’s axis wobbling so fast that it makes a full precessional cycle in a matter of years! The more likely explanation is that the observed increase in annual precession rate is due to something other than the Earth’s axial motion.



© Binary Research Institute Shows the trend of increasing precessional rate due to a binary orbit for half of a 24,000 year period. What Does This All Mean?


Well for starters, how about reason number 3 given above that describes how this hypothetical companion tends to hurl comets towards the inner Solar System. This was the basis for the original ‘Nemesis Theory’ that tried to explain the dinosaur extinctions and other mass die-offs recorded in fossil record. The thing is, if this hypothetical ‘Nemesis’ body is actually plowing through the Oort cloud every 26,000 years instead 26 million years, then this implies that the comet threat has been grossly underestimated. (And downgrading the name ‘Nemesis’ to the euphemistic ‘Tyche’ – as some astronomers have done – is unlikely to make the comets go away!)

Like Walter Cruttenden writes in Lost Star of Myth and Time, we may be approaching a new Golden Age in terms of our location in orbit about a companion star, but what he doesn’t see is that we may have to pass through a cosmic shooting gallery of comets to get there. Perhaps a ‘comet cleanse’ for the Earth is also part of the process of getting us on the path to a new Golden Age? Seeing the psychopathic control of the planet and the lack of any meaningful change in this regard, it’s hard to imagine how a Golden Age could come about without one.