I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens,
and all their host have I commanded.
Isaiah 45:12
The Oort Cloud was theorized by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in 1950 to account for the existence of short period comets. Since then, has any portion of the postulated Oort Cloud ever been directly observed?
But “no confirmed direct observations of the Oort Cloud have been made,” despite long and careful searches. And one cosmologist noted that the “standard model can’t produce anywhere near the number of comets we see.
Levison theorized that since comets have “highly eccentric long-period orbits that take them far from our Sun…they had to have formed close to other stars and then been hijacked here.” One unsolved question about comet origins that this new idea attempts to answer is why they travel on such improbable tracks, as though they had been placed in unusual orbits on purpose.
If gravity is the only force that influenced comet motion, however, then comets should have either crashed into the sun or escaped its pull and been spun straight out into space. The chances of a random placement of a comet into its eccentric orbit are tiny, a mathematical improbability multiplied by each additional comet that follows the same pattern. Earth’s solar system has 3,044 designated comets.
Thus, Levison and his colleagues propose that the sun stole comets from an imaginary ancient comet supply. But if so, why did the other stars not attract their fair share? Did they not also have gravity? In any case, these gravitational interactions supposedly then produced the solar system comets and Oort Cloud. But neither the Oort Cloud nor this “hijacking” of comets from other stars has been observed." ICR
