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74 pages of results. 261. Religious Elements in Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and which serve to fire projectiles from the Earth in the direction of objects in space, such that, by deft ad hoc maneuvering, arrive on target. Otherwise, they boast La Place's mathematical explanations, which La Place himself declared to be dependent upon uniformitarian premises. Then there occur various ways of measuring brilliance, heat, distance, chemistry, speed, and chronology of heavenly bodies, which are hopeful speculations, thanklessly spared from all but an iota of factual proof, leaning upon one another for support but also begging each other's question. So great, however is faith in the one "law of falling bodies" that all else passes as science simply because, as ...
262. CANEPA: BOOK REVIEW [Journals] [Aeon]
... that when matter approaches a rotating body with a magnetic field at a critical velocity, there will be a strong interaction between the rotating body and the infalling matter. This critical velocity varies from 5 km per second-1 for hydrogen to 50 km per second-1 for iron. The band structure is thus formed as the infalling matter becomes segregated by the chemical composition of the matter which tends to cluster with its own kind. Here one might also note what Fred Whipple wrote in The Mystery of Comets, Smithsonian Institutional Press, Washington, DC., 1985, page 140: Comets can now be used as a space laboratory for basic research on Alfvén's difficult plasma physics. Effort must be ...
263. Comets, Meteorites and Earth History [Journals] [SIS Review]
... evolved from the other on Earth. Although this is controversial on the basis of published evidence Professor Wickramasinghe showed a series of slides prepared by the German palaeontologist, Hans Pflug, which indicated the presence of nucleated eukaryotic cells in sections of sedimentary rocks from the Isua series in the west of Greenland dated at 3830 million years before the present. Chemical analysis of the structures has revealed the same types of organic molecules as found in much more recently fossilised material. The next series of Professor Pflug's slides were even more dramatic, showing structures in sections from the Murchison Meteorite startlingly similar to known bacteria and microfungi Again, the results of chemical analysis were consistent with them being just that. ...
264. The Blasted Career of the Mighty Swordsman [Books] [de Grazia books]
... product of gravitational explosion alone. Electrical forces were assisting. True, the point of minimal distance and weakest material strength between two bodies would be the first disrupted area. But to overcome the resistant gravitation of these two points inwards upon their parent body is not all that is needed to cause material dislocation. At the protruding points, the chemical bonding of the material would have to be overcome. That is, a rock is self-contained hardly at all by its center of gravity, but is held together by the chemical ties among its molecules. Otherwise mountains would flow down to the sea like water. The Coprates complex exhibits the important qualities of the rilles of the Moon, ...
265. Did Venus As A Protoplanet Ever Look Like A "Comet"? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . CONDENSATION PHASE. Spiral-shape (seen theoretically from above, but sideways from earth) gives rise to all sorts of imagery - winged or horned creatures such as bull, sphinx, etc. Visible: overlapping phase 2 and 4, millennia. HARDENING PHASE. Thickening atmosphere; body cooling down from white to red heat; increasing electrical and chemical reactions, but still paramagnetic (no ring is formed); light-god. Visible: many centuries. ENCOUNTER PHASE. Wildly changing aspects when very near; chemical and electric interaction of atmospheres. Visible: days. A comet will develop a tail because its mass is too small to retain gases and fine dust which, being repelled by ...
266. Square Craters Detected on Eros [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... . But if Eros is a "chip off the old block," there's a new mystery to consider. When rocky planets like the Earth and its moon (and maybe the parent body of Eros) are formed, heavier elements sink to the core while lighter ones remain near the crust. This leads to a core-mantle structure with distinctive chemical signatures in each layer. The looming conundrum is that Eros does not exhibit the chemical signatures of differentiation. NEAR X-ray spectrometer data show that aluminum, magnesium, and silicon on Eros have the same relative abundances that they do in the Sun and in the early solar nebula. Evidently, Eros was not part of a body that experienced ...
267. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... living cells originate on comets from biochemicals picked up as the comets pass through interstellar gas clouds and thus regularly reach Earth as a result of collisions, is here extended slightly. The authors note that the material making up comets' tails has been reported to be of similar particle size (about 1 [micro]m in diameter) and chemical composition to bacteria. They argue therefore that bacteria are released into space in abundance as comets heat up on close approach to a star. This enables bacteria from comets in many star systems to accumulate in interstellar space, and to be picked up by comets travelling through other star systems, possibly to be deposited on a planet capable of ...
268. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - II (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... offered without foundation, precedent, or capacity for proof. The suggestion that slow changes could have occurred "during thousands of years in the frozen state" (repeated by Ellenberger) is presented without evidence. It is merely accompanied by the rash statement that "the complex organic molecules forming the structure of the cells must undergo some degradation since chemical processes do not stop completely until the temperature approaches absolute".(47) Such an assertion ignores thermodynamic and kinetic considerations, for the complex chemical reactions concerned are not energy-favored and, hence, need to be catalysed. The catalysts required are, of course, the enzymes secreted by the microorganisms to which the two of us have ...
269. Astroblemes of the Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , that is, from fourteen thousand years before the present onwards, during the period of Super Uranus instability. The lunar episode, to be discussed in Chapter Thirteen, would have provided most of the remaining meteoritic features, or astroblemes. Here the material itself would have been mostly a fallback and possibly identifiable as Earth-crustal material by physical and chemical techniques if its nature would not be later modified to conform to Earth. Subsequent disastrous showers of meteoroids, as we shall explain, would have been experienced in Apollo and Venusian times, that is, around 5000 and 3500 years ago. Lately the term "astrobleme", meaning "star-wound" in Greek, has come into scientific ...
... constituents of the planetary material with which it came into contact. Oxides are much bulkier, and hence lighter, than the pure metallic, metalloid, and other substances. Hydroxides, too, were eventually formed, and, indeed, the hot (and, where trapped in subterranean cavities, superheated) water must have been a very powerful chemical agent. The primeval continent, therefore, must have started to swell upwards, so to speak, as these various chemical reactions began to take place. This first crust had no appreciable surface moulding, perhaps none at all. If other influences, to be described later, had not come into play, the crustal floe would probably ...
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