Nested vorticity and orbital streamlines
RSI treats the Solar System as a smaller copy of the galactic pattern, with the planets falling freely around the Sun in its still pressure shadow.
RSI holds that the same mechanical laws apply at every scale. A galaxy is a large topological knot, and a planetary system is a smaller system within the galaxy, governed by the same medium.
The familiar pattern in which nearer planets orbit faster (v ∝ r⁻¹ᐟ²) follows from the Sun's still pressure shadow: each planet falls freely around the Sun. The spinning Sun drags the medium only very slightly, as General Relativity predicts.
The theory points to several signs of this medium. The Solar System lies in a nearly flat plane because the spinning cloud it formed from flattened into a disk as it collapsed. Clocks on navigation satellites, which fly inclined prograde orbits, keep time as relativity predicts. Whether the Sun's very weak frame dragging leaves any further, direction-dependent effect on them is an open question, not a prediction.
From the paper: Chapter VII, Nested Vorticity and Orbital Streamlines. Read the full section
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