I’m sure they could if you’re willing to sum up an infinity of them. Epicycles are fundamentally equivalent to a Fourier series/transform. The only reason to drop them is that obviously they’re a very high complexity rule that can be much more efficiently compressed if you only look at the phenomenon in a different reference frame.
I’m sure they could if you’re willing to sum up an infinity of them. Epicycles are fundamentally equivalent to a Fourier series/transform. The only reason to drop them is that obviously they’re a very high complexity rule that can be much more efficiently compressed if you only look at the phenomenon in a different reference frame.