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144 pages of results. 351. Synodos, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... reflected and her eclipses are due to the shadow of the earth".3 This implies that they knew the earth is a sphere in space, a fact known also to a number of Greek philosophers.4 A few Greek philosophers were aware that planets, on close contact, are greatly disturbed, and that out of their agitated atmospheres comets are born. The perturbations in such contacts may be so strong that, when the earth is involved, deluge or world conflagration may take place. Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school of thought,5 and likewise Anaxagoras ( -500 to -428) and Democritus ( -460 to -370), declared that planets at conjunction ...
352. Reconciling Celestial Mechanics and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... to name only a few major bodies in the solar system, are electrically charged. Yet the very precision with which gravitational theory accounts for the planetary motions seems to belie this evidence. Perturbations due to repulsive electrical forces, for example, are nowhere in evidence today-not even, I hasten to suggest, in the strange behavior of comet tails, about which I shall have more to say later. This impasse between celestial mechanics and the notion of cosmic electrical interactions was recognized long ago. A reconciliation seemed so unlikely that physical scientists of half a dozen successive generations felt compelled to devise all sorts of exotic theories to explain away the most obvious evidence for electric charge on ...
353. Velikovsky's Legacy [Articles]
... will focus on developments I have been involved in, either directly or indirectly. In 1983, Dave Talbott and myself began a series of collaborative researches on Venus' role in ancient myth and religion. This research spawned a trilogy of articles for Kronos and continues today. Talbott and I began by investigating the most common ancient terms for "comet", including "hair-star", "serpent-star", "bearded-star", "tailed- star", "torch-star", "smoking-star", etc. Such terminology, as we documented, was not only common to most ancient cultures, but surprisingly prominent in the earliest religious and mythical traditions; thereby attesting, it would ...
354. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... market by December 1998. The book will have some 252 pages and will cost £36 but with a discount for SIS members who order through the SIS Book Service. For details, contact SIS Book Service c/o Val Pearce (Mrs), 10 Witley Green, Darley Heights, Stopsley, Bedfordshire, LU2 8TR, UK. Comet Hale-Bopp is innocent - OK? On p. 1 of C&CR 1997:2 , it was stated that comet Hale-Bopp had collided with Jupiter. However, as reader Michael Reade was quick to point out, it was not Hale-Bopp but comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which collided with the giant planet. As far as is known, comet ...
355. Venus, Mars ... and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... which suggest that the ringed planet was a major influence on Earth in the past. As we near the end of the millennium, a period traditionally associated with apocalyptic fears and cometary disaster, the time seems ripe for reconsidering the evidence as to the nature of the agents responsible for recent cataclysms and the concomitant genesis of ancient myth: were comets, or planets with comet-like characteristics, the principal culprits? Some SIS members appear inclined to abandon their roots in Velikovskian catastrophism in favour of a comet-based model, influenced by the theories of Victor Clube and Bill Napier. Several observations are in order here. Firstly, it is necessary to emphasise that the two models are by no means ...
356. The Electric Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... where proto-Saturn was being captured by the Sun and behaving in a non-Newtonian, cometary fashion. Yet the descriptions of the polar configuration are replete with non-equilibrium electric discharge phenomena: Venus with its radiating streams and plasma toroidal "eye," not to mention the polar column itself. Astronomers already know, and are puzzled by the fact, that comets accelerate under the influence of non-gravitational forces. The Electric Universe model recognizes the cometary jets and tail as an electric plasma discharge. In that model, gravity is a weak manifestation of the fundamental electrical property of matter and it can be modified by altering the charge on a body. It is the change in gravity of a comet as ...
357. Additional Examples of Correct Prognosis [Books] [de Grazia books]
... theory was collected and presented separately in Earth in Upheaval (1955). In order to explain how certain phenomena could have taken place - how, for instance, Venus, a newcomer, could obtain a circular orbit, or the Earth turn over on its axis - the theory envisaged a charged state of the sun, planets, and comets, and extended magnetic fields permeating the solar system. This appeared even more objectionable since celestial mechanics had been solidly erected on the notion of gravitation, inertia and pressure of light as the only forces acting in the void, the celestial bodies being electrically and magnetically sterile in their inter-relations. Worlds in Collision, in its Preface, was ...
358. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... .00, pp. 24-27 It surely cannot be a coincidence that an article on black holes, including phrases such as , Protonic black-hole atoms would be thousands of times smaller than normal atoms - so small that they would fall between the ordinary atoms of a solid .. ', was published on All Fools' Day. ASTRONOMY Crumbling Comets New Scientist 19.2 .00, p. 23 and 5.8 .00, p. 5, Science Frontiers 125, Sep. -Oct. 99, p. 1 Astronomers believe that most of the comets recently discovered close to the Sun are the shattered remains of a single giant comet, the break up of ...
359. Poleshifts, Catastrophes, And Myths [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... GIANT METEORITES that gave the planet a nudge large enough to change the wobble and the tilt of the axis."11 (Capitalization and emphasis added) [Young does not mention the myths.] The Italian astronomer Emilio Spedicato, on the basis of his analysis of ancient literary texts, has suggested that the Pleistocene ended when a large comet struck the Earth.12 Austrian geologists E. Kristian-Tollmann and Alexander Tollmann, through their analysis of the geological evidence, propose a major comet stream impact 9,500 years ago in the ocean that ended the Pleistocene and ushered in the Holocene.13 Like the theory of Clube and Napier,14 their comet breaks up into many pieces ...
360. Editor's Page [Journals] [Aeon]
... concerned, it can safely be stated that they relied quite heavily on Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. Of course, Velikovsky dealt in planetary catastrophism, whereas Clube and Napier re-interpreted Velikovsky's mytho-historical sources in light of cometary bombardments. They could not, of course, escape the fact that the sources themselves stress the role of planets in lieu of comets. They got around this by the supposition that planets were named as the perpetrators in lieu of comets because the comets had first appeared close to the planets and thus received planetary names. Or is it that planets received cometary names? Even so, the sudden interest in cosmic catastrophism among establishment science was not influenced by the work of ...
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