Most of Larson's concepts are still valid in RS2. The primary areas of difference are in solar system formation and the influence of the Cosmic sector on Material events. (Coordinate time plays a much larger role in RS2 than in the RS).
The primary differences between RS/RS2 and conventional astronomy is the evolutionary process. In the Reciprocal System versions:
- Stars are formed from dust being compressed by gravitation and heated up, forming an infrared protostar.
- After a sufficient aggregate is formed, the thermal limit of atoms begins the process of atomic fission in the star, forming a red giant.
- Stars continue to pull in, via gravitation, dust and matter to continue this fission process, heating the star into the main sequence.
- Heavier elements gravitate to the center of the star, where they accumulate, moving up the main sequence towards blue giants.
- Isotope build up in the stellar core from all the neutrinos being released from the fission processes going on.
- Isotopic mass builds until the rotational stability of the atom is destroyed, resulting in the age-limit destruction of the atom, a process far more violent than the thermal limit.
- When a sufficiency of age-limit detonation occurs, the star explodes as a supernova with the outer portion of the star exploding into space and the inner core, being confined, is accelerated past the speed of light and explodes in time (implodes in space).
- The spatial result of a supernova is a large cloud of dust and debris, ejected along the polar axis (3-x speeds), the equatorial plane (2-x speeds) and a sphere of dust and rock (1-x speeds).
- The temporal result of a supernova is a small, highly compact object in space, that is invisible and a source of X-rays.
- After a period of clock time, gravitation again takes over and forms a new, red giant star from the spatial rubble that remained from the old star.
- Temporal gravitation is also operating, causing the matter that exploded into time to compact and the invisible, X-ray source in space to cool and expand to a white dwarf star.
- Eventually, the red giant heats up and the white dwarf cools down until they both enter the main sequence, where the process repeats. The only difference between the stars is the distribution of elements; the red giant having more lighter elements and the white dwarf having more heavy elements.
The galactic situation is analogous to the stellar one. Since we start stellar evolution with the red giant, the first of the galactic evolutionary stages will be an aggregate of red giants--globular clusters. Since red giants and globular clusters are the first stage of evolution, they would be the most common objects to be found outside of galaxies (which NASA has stated now).
Galactic evolution then proceeds to gravitate globular clusters into irregular galaxies, barred spirals, large spirals, ellipticals, then giant spherical galaxies, which then explode in their own version of a supernova; a result of the blue giants in their core doing the same thing as heavy elements in the stellar core. The byproducts of a galactic explosion also pair off, the radio galaxy (explosion product in space) and quasi-stellar object (explosion product in time).
The extreme acceleration of quasars do not allow them to cool and return to the spiral galaxy status, as do their white dwarf counterparts. The continue to accelerate (recess) into time, and eventually disappear from Material sector view, leaving behind a giant, cosmic "bubble", since the temporal acceleration causes them to recede in a scalar fashion. Think of it as a "Hubble contraction." The quasar literally shrinks out of existence, leaving behind a void with a shell of matter (other galaxies).
Details of Reciprocal System astronomy can be found in Larson's book, Universe of Motion.