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18 pages of results. 301. The Electrical Axis and its Gaseous Radiation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... second) after breakdown (Bruce, 1955). 36 Francis discusses conditions in the positive column of a short discharge tube. The estimate of 0.1 V/cm given above is a simplistic linear extrapolation from the data given for the voltage drop across an entire discharge tube. Actual values in the discharge are difficult to measure (Juergens, 1977a). In the plasma away from the electrodes the voltage drop is miniscule and could be one thousand times less than the average value. 37 4.06 present Earth days (sidereal). 38 The gases in an electric arc do not burn in the sense of combustion, rather they are excited electrically, sometimes giving ...
302. Tektites and China's Dragon [Journals] [Kronos]
... applies here too: the Moon has not yet been fully explored. Tektites are jets of fused Silica. Silica can and is fused by lightning bolts. If Velikovsky is right, it was a colossal planetary discharge that excavated the lunar crater Tycho and other rayed craters on the Moon.(40) So, also, Ralph E. Juergens.(41) There is, therefore, the possibility that fused silica (or silicon)- a form of tektite- will be found in the region of Tycho. Meanwhile, the glassy beads that have been found scattered over the lunar surface, although similar to the Moon's own basalt, are enriched by heavy isotopes of sulphur ...
303. The Blasted Career of the Mighty Swordsman [Books] [de Grazia books]
... once up, and accelerated in a vacuous atmosphere, whatever brings it down? It would seem reasonable to assume that the Martian "atmosphere" is capable of regular electrical phenomena such as produce clouds, winds and tides on Earth even if the constituent material is so humble as to be called "dust." In fact, as Ralph Juergens has mentioned, airborne dust is an ideal medium in which to "brew" electrical discharges [15]. Nor, for that matter, is Murray perturbed by the fact that the carbon dioxide caps photographed at the poles of Mars are a couple of hundreds of kilometers off center. Here, again, is evidence of a tilting ...
304. Thoth Vol I, No. 13: May 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... atoms (from the water) to sulphur. Elemental sulphur takes many colours ranging from yellow through red to black (look at Io's surface) and could account for the reddish colouration of the ejected material. Alternatively, and I think less likely, the coloured material may be exogenous and implanted by the discharge itself (as described by Ralph Juergens). Of course, when we finish discussing Europa, we have the linear features on Ganymede and Callisto to explain- not to mention the moons of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. ** ** * Wal Thornhill responded to further comments by James Acker: [WT] The surface *was* recently active with both electrical sculpting ...
305. Clockwork [Books] [de Grazia books]
... into the Biblical accounts and many other accounts of the same disaster at the same time. In short, it is catastrophic theory that sired the revised chronology of V. and if the genius of that reconstruction is extraordinary, it is the effect of hereditary genius, a "fall-out" of genius from a single elemental key idea, as Juergens has written. I say this while reminding myself that the Exodus disaster was the key, but the motive came in the desire to reverse the order of Moses and Akhnaton: to recapture Moses and monotheism for Israel. Not that V. cared for monotheism in itself. But since the world regarded it as an invention of paramount importance ...
306. Velikovsky and the Sequence of Planetary Orbits [Journals] [Pensee]
... not overlap at all. But this guideline cannot be followed in the transition from Stage 4 to the present Stage 5. The present orbits of Earth and Mars do not intersect, and it is obvious that the two planets did not leave the sector of their near-collision on the same Keplerian orbits that they have followed to this day. As Juergens describes this problem, "the final encounter must necessarily leave at least one participant traveling on a highly eccentric orbit-one that must return the body again and again to at least one point of possible collision with its late antagonist" (9 ). Yet neither Mars nor Earth is presently on an orbit eccentric enough to carry it to a ...
... the critical 3.5 micron region show not the slightest trace of the C-H absorption feature common to hydrocarbons... (Pollack, et. al. 1974). All other absorption bands in the Venus spectrum from the ultraviolet through the infrared are now understood; none of them is due to hydrocarbons."13 Ralph E. Juergens was skeptical about this statement by Sagan and actually read (Pollack, et. al. 1974) and had this to say, "However, when one checks the paper cited by Sagan, it turns out that (Pollack, et. al. 1974) found a great deal of absorption between 3.05 and 3. ...
308. Stability of Solid Cores in Gaseous Planets [Journals] [Kronos]
... interior and help to build the core. The high pressure would liquefy and then solidify many gases, but the slowly increasing central temperatures may have limited this process.(6 ) An estimate that "Jupiter may have a solid core 40 times as massive as Earth" was recently quoted by a very sober astronomer-(7 ) and Juergens has estimated a rocky core of sufficient mean density to yield 100 planets the size of Venus, not even counting "wasted" matter. (8 ) Of course, if Venus was ejected from Jupiter a few thousand years ago, Jupiter may now be in the process of building up a new massive core. Many thousands or millions ...
309. The Birth of Venus from Jupiter [Journals] [Kronos]
... . However, celestial mechanics can no longer continue to neglect situations like that of the Jovian satellites plowing through the magnetic field of their primary. Having shown that Motz' argument against the origin of Venus from Jupiter does not hold, and having only touched upon his argument against the protoplanet Venus' further fate, I leave it to Ralph Juergens to continue. * * * Part II RALPH E. JUERGENS The Resolution of Conflicting Orbits Professor Motz' error in attributing to Dr. Velikovsky the notion that Venus erupted from Jupiter in "a kind of volcanic process" leads him to equate kinetic energy of escape with the explosion energy of some thermal event and inevitably turns up all ...
310. Catastrophe and Divine Fires [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the dense atmosphere upwards, like a clutch of balloons, are probable. The repeated Biblical references to Yahweh's sending darts of fire, jets of fire upon the enemies of Israel and even upon the Israelites when they displease him inspires one to seek the corresponding natural phenomenon, even though it would be enormously amplified in a general catastrophic encounter. Juergens has suggested plasmoids, pieces of plasma, as being formed and bombarding earth on some ancient occasions. These electrical footballs are formed of a balance of positive ions and electrons. They retain their identity and appear as luminous objects of the size of missiles. They would cause explosions near the ground and/or dig craters [67] ...
311. The Olympian Rulers [Books] [de Grazia books]
... number of occasions, the Spot has made dramatic moves [16]. Hence, the rotation of Jupiter has repeatedly suffered marked interruptions even though the force required to change the angular momentum of such a rotating body is far beyond the force imagined to be able to originate in a stable system. a. Greek Zeus-Jupiter, hurling a lightning-bolt Juergens suggests that this "unreal" bolt may be all too real, a plasmoid of electricity of immense power, well beyond the bi-dental fork that represents Jovean lightning in the typical artistic sublimation. b. Zin-Chin, a Chinese Jupiter-God, the Thundermaker, hawk-like [10]. The Egyptian Horus was also hawk-like. The generally turbulent nature ...
312. Thoth Vol II, No. 2: January 31 , 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... observed abundances. This stringing together of ad hoc possibilities imitates orthodox explanations with the resultant lowering of confidence in them. [Wal]: Once again, in my workshop notes I say that Eric Lerner's imagination seems to fail him when we come to look at our own star, the Sun. [Mel]: Your view, from Juergens, of a "plasma transformer" theory of stellar structure would be more consistent with a plasma universe- one step instead of 3 or 4 ‹ but can you get it to produce the observed abundances? Have you- can you calculate the element abundances that would result from surface nucleosynthesis at a rate consistent with observed neutrinos? [Wal] ...
313. Jupiter God of Abraham (Part IV) [Journals] [Kronos]
... might have struck the plain would first have had to open up channels in the earth before contact with these deposits could have been made. Such power is not contained in atmospheric thunderbolts but, according to what Pliny said of the Babylonians, interplanetary ones were believed to be capable of accomplishing just that. In modern times, Ralph E. Juergens was of the same opinion.(310) Contact with vaporizable sulfur compounds could also have been achieved by a thunderbolt that first passed through a sulfurous atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere is not sulfurous so we are bound to ask: Is sulfur to be found in planetary atmospheres? As far back as 1945, Velikovsky had already suspected the ...
314. Thoth Vol II, No. 15: Oct 1, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... preferentially on the rims of earlier crater walls might also explain the overlapping domes, where the centre of one dome often coincides fairly closely with a point on the circumference of another. In other words, it seems possible that some of the many variations of electric arc behaviour at an anode seen in the laboratory may explain these enigmatic objects. Juergens points out that such raised mounds may be planetary equivalents of "fulgamites" which are mounds of metal, melted and raised above the surface of metal caps placed over the ends of lightning rods. The sides of fulgamites are usually ridged with closely spaced concentric grooves and the bases flared like a bell."- from a paper delivered ...
315. Cosmic Catastrophism [Journals] [Aeon]
... 1977), pp. 62-63, 94-99. 17. Ibid., pp. 63. 18. I. Velikovsky, "My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science," "Afterword," and "The Ten Points of Sagan," in KRONOS 3:2 (1977), pp. 31, 33-34; R. Juergens, "Sagan's Ten Plagues, '" KRONOS 3:2 (1977), pp. 85-87. 19. I. Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision (New York, 1950), pp. 40-44, 385-286; "My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science," "Afterword," and "The Ten Points of Sagan ...
316. Thoth Vol III, No. 7: April 30, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... are almost without exception electrical plasma arc scars of one form or another. James Conway asks: What is the minimum mass of an object needed to produce such scars if the bodies have a near miss. Wal Thornhill replies: It would have to be a large body to have sufficient charge available to cause the damage seen on Mars. Juergens made some rough order of magnitude calculations of the charge transferred to the Moon from Mars to cause craters like Aristarchus. Whatever hit Mars was orders of magnitude greater. Some scholars have proposed a general formula relating charge to mass ratio for cosmic bodies. Guesstimating the energy required to remove million cubic kilometres of Mars surface would give you the ...
317. Senmut's Ceiling and the Earth as Tippe Top (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... flip over solely under the gravitational influence of a passing cosmic body of any size seems impossible. The tremendous inadequacy of the models that have been considered does not appear to be surmountable by either the addition of electromagnetic effects or the expansion to higher orders of the dynamic analysis or the Earth's shape. The convection of electric charge developed by Ralph Juergens(10) neither stopped nor reversed Earth's rotation, but merely slowed it down and speeded it up with the direction of rotation unchanged. Thus, it had no bearing on the problem of how the Sun changed direction. Slabinski closed his article in J. Phys. with the following challenge: "Those who would now appeal to ...
318. On the Circularization of the Orbit of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... is only a ball-park estimate of a theoretical upper limit. There is no reason to think that the "magnetic centrifuge" really operated at the limit of its capacity. But even if the rate of transportation were only 1016 kg/s , interplanetary space would still be cleared in about 1600 years. REFERENCES 1. R. E. Juergens: "Sagan's Ten Plagues", KRONOS III:2 (Winter 1977), p. 77. 2. C. S. Sherrerd: "The Electromagnetic Circularization of Planetary Orbits", KRONOS IV:4 (Summer 1979), pp. 55-58. 3. I. Velikovsky: "Earth Without a Moon", ...
319. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... When his love he doth espy, Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky. (105-107.) If Oberon is Zeus-Jupiter, then perhaps the application of the love juice represents an electrical interchange between two planetary bodies in the form of a bolt of ionized plasma which begins a new phase in the celestial events. Ralph Juergens has argued along these lines, saying that the Velikovskian scenarios could have been accomplished by the clash of magnetospheres and electrostatic attraction and repulsion.(57) Velikovsky refers to such events in Worlds in Collision, where he discusses the transformation of Phaëthon into the Morning Star. This transformation is related by Hyginus in his Astronomy, where he ...
320. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... orbit, which has the lowest eccentricity of all the planets, we have Sherrerd's theory of the tendency of elliptical orbits to circularise - this is of course quite apart from Velikovsky's theory of Venus's orbit having been altered by contact with Mars. John Hare, Tenterden, Kent Editor's Note: the above quote comes from a chapter written by Ralph Juergens. It would be very useful if the original paper by Lyttleton could be traced. Does any member know of it, or of the source used by Juergens? -BN Answering Critics Dear Sir, Since plans to come together with Milton Zysman to the SIS AGM 1990 did not materialise, I have to resort to telling in writing what ...
321. Notes [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... 1970; B. Nagy, et at, Science 167, 170, 1970; G. Eglington, et a], Nature, Vol.226, pp. 251-2, April 18, 1970. 138. P. Gorenstein, and P. Bjorkholm, Science, 179, 792, 1973. 139.R . E. Juergens, Pensee VIII, 45, 1974. CHAPTER VI 1.W F. Libby, Pensee IV, 7, 1973. 2.H . C. Sorensen, Pensee IV, 15, 1973. 3.Letter from Dr. Klaus Baer to Rev. Benjamin N. Adams, Trinity Presbyterian Church, San Francisco. 4 ...
... enough to obviate working for a living. So there is no doubt that when exact numbers are used, we all know precisely where we stand. We can communicate in numbers without the dangers inherent in the use of words alone. "What are the mathematical odds against Velikovsky's making so many correct deductions from false premises'?" asks Juergens [174]. I note only in passing the common ploy of the rhetorical question, left explicitly unanswered but followed by words intended to convey that there is only one possible answer. Leave aside also how many is meant by "so many," how "correct" they in fact may be, and the lack of general ...
323. On Schools Of Thought [Journals] [SIS Review]
... epithet, is merely dignified with the name of an august periodical which one feels should have known better. - More detailed information on the current publications in the field will be found in the "Focus" pages of this and subsequent issues of the SIS Review.) 2. H. Shapley, as quoted by R.E . Juergens in A. de Grazia (ed.), The Velikovsky Affair, op. cit. note 1, 17. 3. M. Polanyi, The Growth of Science in Society', Minerva, 5 (1967), 533-45; reprinted in M. Polanyi (M . Grene ed.), Knowing and Being ( ...
324. Still Facing Unfair Criticism (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... (end of self quote; square brackets inserted by Mewhinney). Would it not be more appropriate to quote that this "philological conclusion . . . had won the acceptance of Professor William F. Albright, one of the world's leading orientalists and a harsh critic of Ages in Chaos, as early as 1946", as R. Juergens had put it in The Velikovsky Affair, p. 63? After all, Mewhinney quotes Juergens from the very same page, and stops short of this very sentence. Mewhinney again omits the same information by inserting three dots into his quote from de Grazia's article (omission restored: "F . W. Albright, eminent orientalist, ...
325. Science and Novelty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Games Theory) and "Riflessioni attuali sulla teoria dei giochi" (1964, Nos. 4 & 5). 4. I. Velikovsky: Worlds in Collision (New York: Doubleday/London: Gollancz, 1950). 5. The matter was explored in depth in papers by A. de Grazia, R. E. Juergens, L. C. Stecchini and Dr Velikovsky himself in the September 1963 issue of The American Behavioral Scientist. [Later reprinted as The Velikovsky Affair: see de Grazia below. - Eds. ] 6. Goethe: Maxims and Reflections, maxim 1385. Readers wishing to follow up points in this article will find a list of ...
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