The helical model - our solar system is a vortex (our Galaxy, too)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. "Decaying orbit" has nothing to do with a "vortex" other than shape.

To claim a decaying orbit is equivalent to a vortex or implies a vortex or is evidence of a vortex is as ludicrous as claiming that a circular orbit implies a tether to center of the orbit.

Orbits and vortices work from entirely different physical principles.

Orbits work from gravitation.

Vortices work from fluid mediums.

Just because a small or large number of people believe that world is flat, in the face of massive amounts of evidence to the contrary, starting with the observations by Erastothenes (276-195 BCE), doesn't make the "flat earth theory" an actual theory or a respectable theory. At best it was a hypothesis without evidence either way until people like Erastothenes observed facts that immediately eliminated the hypothesis. There weren't any facts the other way because nobody had observed anybody falling over the edge of a flat earth.

Just because a previous hypothesis or theory has been assigned to the scrap heap of history doesn't mean that we should gullibly spend a lot of time on other theories that are immediately disproven by well-known facts that are easily verifiable.