The Solar System, Counted: the Unified Orrery Is Published
Eight orbits, one ledger, no clock — and a stone dropped raw into the calculus that closes an ellipse, leans it, and pays Mercury’s 43″ a century without being told about Mercury.
The Unified State publishes the Unified Orrery — Unified Gravity, run in the sky. An orrery is a machine for pretending the heavens run on clockwork; this one removes the clock. Every quantity on the page is a count compared to a count: orbits that close, rates that thin near the mass, an ellipse whose long axis leans forward a measured sliver per closing. The planets move because the screen refreshes — the page states, on the dial itself, that this pace is presentation. The physics is the ratios, and the ratios carry no t.
Five lines run everything, each one measured physics with the time cancelled out: the clock, the rate, the fall, Kepler’s third law rewritten as counts against counts, and the lean of the ellipse. Four benches put them to work. The orrery draws all eight orbits from the JPL J2000 books in a frame you drag to turn; THE AUDIT opens the full ledger, eight rows balanced to parts per thousand — and the residuals are not errors but masses. Jupiter’s −1.0‰ is Jupiter itself, weighing in at 0.95‰ of the Sun. In 1846 the same books ran backward: Uranus’s count would not balance, and Le Verrier resolved it with mass, not repeal — Neptune, found within a degree of where the arithmetic pointed.
The deepest bench is the fall, run raw. A stone is dropped into the counting and nothing pulls it: the machine integrates one line — u″ + u = 1∕p + (3rs∕2)u², Einstein 1915 at first order — step by step in the orbit’s own turning, never in time, with the count read back from the swept area. Kepler’s second law is not a law on this page; it is the definition. Out of the arithmetic an ellipse closes, leans, and lands at the true seam on 42.98″ a century. The MESSENGER-era ephemerides hold 42.98 ± 0.04. The integrator was given a, e, and the seam — nothing else.
— THE UNIFIED ORRERY · CLOSING LINE
The annex keeps the house rule: three failure conditions stated in the open — one clock off the lapse, one perihelion off the lean, one orbit off the ledger with no mass to balance it — and the fourth flag that stays raised: every number the page produces, the standard account produces; re-derivation is not discovery. Like every instrument of the system it runs entirely in the browser — nothing stored, nothing sent, every number re-derivable by hand.