An Intriguing Correlation between the Distribution of Star Multiples and Human Adults in Household
Alon Retter
Hamaccabim St., Shoham, Israel.
DOI: 10.4236/ijaa.2013.32017   PDF    HTML     3,881 Downloads   6,805 Views  

Abstract

It is a known fact that like people, some stars are singles, many others tend to couple in binaries, and fewer are in triples etc. The distribution of multiplicity in the 4559 brightest nearby stars was matched with that of human adults in household in six countries, in which this information could be dug and estimated. A strong resemblance between the two curves is evident. Monte Carlo simulations suggest that this result is significant at a confidence level higher than 98%. Apparently, there should be no connection between the two populations, thus this striking result may supply some clues about the way Nature works. It is noted that extended versions of this work were proposed three years ago, and two predictions of this absurd model have already been verified.

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A. Retter, "An Intriguing Correlation between the Distribution of Star Multiples and Human Adults in Household," International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2013, pp. 153-160. doi: 10.4236/ijaa.2013.32017.

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