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245 pages of results. 461. Jupiter's Magnetic Field and Io's Volcanoes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . It appears probable to me that it sends out radio noises as do the sun and the stars." (Earth in Upheaval, Supplement: "Recent Finds in Astronomy".) In correspondence with Albert Einstein, Velikovsky (June 1954) repeated his view that Jupiter is not an inert gravitational body, and that it would be ... "priority of prediction" with regard to the radio noises (and the heat of Venus), the announcement of which "came as something of a surprise because radio astronomers had never expected a body as cold as Jupiter to emit radio waves". While it is felt that some short-wave noises coming from Jupiter are of ordinary thermal origin ...
462. More on Jonathan Swift abd the Moons of Mars (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... science, I offer at the start a short survey of the most celebrated cases, and it is not by chance that almost all of them come from the domain of astronomy. These cases are spectacular and, with one or two exceptions, are well known. The story of scientific "clairvoyance" in modern astronomy starts with Johannes Kepler ... Leibniz' data may have been filched after his death, and possibly found their way into Newton's files. McDowell suggests that the part of Swift's work which deals with the astronomers of Laputa was actually written by Arbuthnot, and that, in view of his privileged position with Newton, he could have had knowledge of the contents of Leibniz' ...
463. Stellar Thermonuclear Energy: A False Trail? [Journals] [Kronos]
... who have followed this trail for a long time, tell part of the story: "For the past 15 years we have tried, in collaboration with many colleagues in astronomy, chemistry, and physics, to understand and test the theory of how the sun produces its radiant energy (observed on the earth as sunlight). All of ... neutrinos offer us a unique possibility of looking' into the solar interior. Moreover, the theory of stellar aging by thermonuclear burning is widely used in interpreting many kinds of astronomical information and is a necessary link in establishing such basic data as the ages of the stars and the [cosmic] abundances of the elements. The parameters of the ...
464. The Rotating Crust. Ch.8 Poles Displaced (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... K. A. Pauly, propagates the idea offered, or revived, by the astronomer A. E. Eddington in his paper, "The Borderland of Geology and Astronomy." According to Eddington, the ice ages were caused by the shifting of the earth's outer crust over its interior as a result of tidal friction or the inequality ... Pratt, in the 1850s, found that the Himalayas, the largest massif on earth, do not exert the expected gravitational pull and do not deflect a plumb-line. The astronomer G. B. Airy was surprised, to the point of disbelief in fact; but then he offered a theory that the granite crust, much lighter than the ...
465. A Hypothetical Ancient Telescope [Journals] [Horus]
... disk of that world. A crescent Venus would have been still more visible because of its larger angular size. Basically, these experiments show that the ancients could have done astronomy with such devices as their technology had already created, but can not prove that they did. We need additional evidence to suggest that they did use such telescopes. ... . 3 (Fall 1986) Home | Issue Contents A Hypothetical Ancient Telescope Francis G. Graham The telescope is traditionally thought to have been invented around 1608 and first used astronomically by Galileo in 1610. However, there are numerous instances of Renaissance "discoveries" actually being rediscoveries of ancient knowledge. Electroplating, mechanical clocks, steam engines, ...
466. ...more Myths Monuments and Mnemonics: A Visit To Easter Island [Journals] [Horus]
... do seem to be the best explanation for these otherwise incomprehensible tales. The idea still is resisted vigorously by most but the general thought has reached a dim consciousness in established astronomy. Death stars, colliding asteroids, giant comets, and other forms of cosmic destruction now are proposed by some astronomers to have played major roles in the geological history ... now is theorized to have ended in catastrophe caused by a comet - but to imagine events of similar magnitude in historical times has remained a generally unacceptable thought, especially among astronomers. Only the most adventurous recently have agreed that celestial disorders do seem to be the best explanation for these otherwise incomprehensible tales. The idea still is resisted vigorously by ...
467. Big and Little Science [Articles]
... Masters of Time, reviews the course of astronomical theory over the past quarter century, a period of high excitement in the field, but his estimate of the state of astronomy today is depressingly like the impasse which I have described in physics. That is to say, astronomy like physics was dominated in the last 25 years by a belief ... " because what is unambiguous is misleading and only "the ambiguous is the reality." These specialists insist that in science the observer is omnipresent, which led physicist and astronomer Arthur Eddington to the astonishing assertion that, in science, "the mind has by its selective power fitted the processes of Nature into .. . a pattern largely ...
468. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... system and the Earth itself may not have evolved the same way as other planetary systems in the Universe, according to research at the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy. As reported recently in the national press, Dr Martin Beer (a UK Astrophysical Fluids Facility fellow) and his colleagues Professor Andrew King (Leicester), Dr ... From: C&C Review 2004:3 (Incorporating C&C Workshop 2004:4 ) Home | Issue Home News from the Internet Compiled by Ian Tresman Astronomical Cycles & Radioactive decay www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/time.html Russian Discovery Challenges Existence of Absolute Time' by Jonathan Tennenbaum. Russian scientists discover unexpected ...
469. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... present northern sky. Concomitantly, there were no constellations of similar antiquity in the southern polar sky, ursine or otherwise. (A . E. Roy, Vistas in Astronomy 27 (1984), pp. 171-197). Granting the circumstantial nature of the case, which seems more plausible- that the Great Bear originated after the last ... been proven wrong" they recite in a sing song nursery rhyme manner. They say this out of one side of the mouth, while the other is expounding how "astronomers have come to realize that comets...occasionally collide with the inner planets." (18) This quote is in contrast with Morrison's quote in Scientists Confront ...
470. Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification [Journals] [Aeon]
... likely the Babylonian - it is obvious that they cannot be used to support each other. The one hope for a resolution of the question of ancient planetary identifications is the astronomy of Mesoamerica. There the astronomy was both advanced and ancient, and should the surviving records be satisfactorily deciphered, or should new records come to light, they might ... point here is not that Velikovsky erred with regard to a particular identification or interpretation; rather that he failed to establish proper criteria for distinguishing between the extent Greek testimony on astronomical matters. Since the Greek references come from a wide variety of writers and time periods some kind of methodology would appear to be a prerequisite for research. In point ...
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