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39 pages of results. 221. Cataclysms of the Earth [Books]
... and a contact maker and breaker, or electric switch, was needed in the electric circuit either to permit or shut off the flow of electric current by closing or opening the switch. When electric current flows from one terminal to the other of a dynamo, the voltage is sustained by the driving force of the prime mover. In a thunder cloud, by contrast, the voltage is dissipated and equalized by the flow of electric current in the flash of lightning. It was discovered that the rate of flow of an electric current was directly in proportion to the voltage and inversely in proportion to the resistance of the electric circuit. This is expressed as Ohm's Law. The formula ...
... the true sun was kept an underling in the background. It is a well known classic tale that the sun-god Apollo was made the slave of Admetos, the old "order" of things. It is related that both Apollo and Poseidon, or Neptune, were cast out of heaven, because they tried to usurp the throne of the thunderer. Hephaestos, or Vulcan, the god of celestial fire, was also cast out of heaven, and made lame for all time. Lameness is another and most fitting term for slow motion. The startling activity and rapid motion of the old order was made lame or slow when gods were driven from power. It is hard to ...
223. Velikovsky: A Personal Chronological Perspective of His Final Years [Journals] [Aeon]
... be looking for a luncheon partner, I asked if he would join me in a Dutch treat, and he accepted. We had barely been served when we were joined by the publisher of Pensée, David Talbott, who unaware of Mulholland's identity precipitously began a scathing critique of the participants in the morning program. Not wanting to squelch his thunder, but feeling that a modicum of wisdom would be more appropriate, I hurriedly made introductions, thereby averting what might have been an intriguing situation. Mulholland, a dynamical astronomer from the University of Texas, was then on leave at the Astronomical Section of the Paris Observatory, Meudon, and admitted that he had returned to the United ...
224. Paradigm Lost? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... as we have seen, there are a few who would disagree, and perhaps more who would question whether the age currently accepted is definitive'. As to the origin of life on Earth, Sagan and Druyan write: The early atmosphere was energized by ultraviolet light and the wind from the Sun, the flash and crackle of lightning and thunder, auroral electrons, intense early radioactivity, and the shock waves of objects plummeting groundward. When, in the laboratory, such energy sources are introduced into presumptive atmospheres of the primitive Earth, many of the organic building blocks of life are generated, and with astonishing ease. ' This is true, but what they refrain from saying ...
... returned without doing any thing at all, so far overcame that their repentance, that they lay all night before the wall, though in a very bad encampment; for there broke out a prodigious storm in the night, with the utmost violence, and very strong winds, with the largest showers of rain, with continued lightnings, terrible thunderings, and amazing concussions and bellowings of the earth, that was in an earthquake. These things were a manifest indication that some destruction was coming upon men, when the system of the world was put into this disorder; and any one would guess that these wonders foreshowed some grand calamities that were coming. 6. Now the opinion ...
... one as none had before seen, and encompassed the place where they had pitched their tents; and while all the rest of the air was clear, there came strong winds, that raised up large showers of rain, which became a mighty tempest. There was also such lightning, as was terrible to those that saw it; and thunder, with its thunderbolts, were sent down, and declared God to be there present in a gracious way to such as Moses desired he should be gracious. Now, as to these matters, every one of my readers may think as he pleases; but I am under a necessity of relating this history as it is described in ...
227. Cataclysms of the Earth [Books]
... and a contact maker and breaker, or electric switch, was needed in the electric circuit either to permit or shut off the flow of electric current by closing or opening the switch. When electric current flows from one terminal to the other of a dynamo, the voltage is sustained by the driving force of the prime mover. In a thunder cloud, by contrast, the voltage is dissipated and equalized by the flow of electric current in the flash of lightning. It was discovered that the rate of flow of an electric current was directly in proportion to the voltage and inversely in proportion to the resistance of the electric circuit. This is expressed as Ohm's Law. The formula ...
228. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... Zaphon in the far north appears repeatedly in the texts as the resting place of the high god Baal. "There are striking similarities between the mountain spn [Zaphon] in the Ugaritic texts and Mount Zion in the Hebrew Bible," writes Clifford. "On both the deity dwells in his temple from which he exercises his rule; thunder and lightning are frequently his means of disclosure; the mountain .. . is impregnable; it is connected with fertility; and it is a cosmic centre." (154) Noteworthy is "the mythic and cosmic dimension of the pillar or mountain. That is, it joins the upper and lower world; in it is contained ...
... by natural phenomena of a most frightening nature. [Footnote: Ps. 77:16-18.] The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid, the depths also were troubled. The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound; thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thunder was in the heaven; the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. ' There can be no question but that the situation described above belongs to the time of the Exodus. The language of the ...
230. Untitled [Books]
... .79-81. [ * Italics the authors] This celestial phenomenon was a colossal being who threatened the Earth. His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. 5.2 .82-86. Dr. Velikovsky tells us that, at certain times during the catastrophes of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C ., Mars appeared to be a giant warrior with his sword spanning the sky, and that, when in this aroused state, his approach caused such extreme havoc and thunder that ...
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