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39 pages of results. 331. The Nature and Origin of Comets and the Evolution of Celestial Bodies (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... Figure 3 is a comet Arend-Roland (1957) with its intense sunward spike. Iceball comet theorists claim that sunward spikes are only optical illusions. Comet wandering was first noticed in Encke's comet in the 19th century, and it was Encke's original idea to account for this by the "secular action of a resisting medium". George H. Darwin and T. J. J. See used this to develop the first capture theory of OSS ( in the late 1800s)(8 ) showing two effects over very long time spans, on the order of millions of years for planet-sized objects: 1) elliptical orbits would be circularized and 2) circular orbits would slowly spiral sunwards ...
332. The Scars of Mars - I [Journals] [Kronos]
... the smaller would precede impacting. Further, he stated that the critical distance of fragmentation is 2.44 radii from the center of the larger. Roche assumed both bodies had identical densities, and circular orbits. In fact, circular orbits do not exist in nature, and densities of planets do vary; none are identical. Sir George Darwin later refined Roche's study, and made the conclusion that 2.4554 was the critical distance of fragmentation. More recently, Loren Steinhauer (1972) researched this issue and came to the conclusion that a distance of 2.45 is conservative and a distance of 2.5 to 2.6 radii is more likely.(4 ...
... 279, 296, 337; as bridge between two epochs, 75; sources used by, 118; location of Purgatory by, 193; journey of Virgil and, 194-198; quoted, 204, 250; whirlpool de scribed by, 204 Dapinu, 402-403 Dardanos, 385 Darius Codomanus (Dara), 84 Darmesteter, James, 76 Darwin, Age of, 68 Dates: related to Great Conjunctions, 268; of archaic world, 340-343. See also Time David, King, 214, 249. 264, 421; and the Abyss, 220 Day, Florence, 411 Decamps, 388 Deimel, Anton, 409 Delphi, 447 Demeter, 170, 259, 280 ...
334. Encounters and Collisions [Books] [de Grazia books]
... [13] I might, too, suggest the Pacific Basin as a possible impact site, though here the size of the feature is so great as to imply the total destruction of the globe, and I have, for this reason and many others, elsewhere defined this area as the escape basin of the Moon, following G. Darwin, Osmond, and other writers. Notable in this case is the set of great transform fractures, pictured by Norman [14] which point from south, east and north like arrows to an "impact" or "escape" point in the central Pacific Basin. The current theory of scientists concerning the asteroid belt orbiting the Sun ...
335. The Organization of the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the Heavens Generation 2 1734 Swedenborg's Prodromus Philosophiae Generation 1 1712 The Halley-Swedenborg Breakfasts Immanuel Kant is usually given credit for the nebular hypothesis from his work published in 1755. He popularized the idea. From Kant's wellspring, cosmological water was drawn by Laplace, Buffon, Russell and others in astronomy, by Hutton and Lyell in geology and by Darwin in biology. But the credit for the origin of this hypothesis has been incorrectly attributed to Kant, who adapted it from Swedenborg, 20-some years after Swedenborg first published it in Latin, entitled Prodromus Philosophiae Ratiocinantis de Infinito et Cause Creationis, a rather lengthy title by 20th century standards. Swedenborg, like so many of the early scientists ...
336. A DYNAMICAL OBJECTION TO GRUBAUGH'S POLAR CONFIGURATION [Journals] [Aeon]
... Trojans' (Telesto & Calypso), (3 ) Dione has 1 Trojan' (Helene), and (4 ) Epimetheus does a do-si-do with Janus (see 4/93 Sky & Telescope, p. 32). This behavior, i.e ., 2 satellites trading places, was first predicted in 1897 by George Darwin in his treatise on periodic orbits. I imagine that the behavior of Epimetheus & Janus is a model for how Saturn and Jupiter really interact in the PC'. This being so makes the behavior of Venus, Mars, and Earth in the PC' irrelevant." \cdrom\pubs\journals\aeon\vol0306\001dynam ...
337. The Importance of Outsiders in Science [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of electrical resistance, the ohm, is named after him and the unit of conductance (the inverse of resistance) used to be termed the mho. His work led to his being made professor of physics at Nuremburg when he was 44 and later when he was 60 at Munich University. I've been asked to give a mention to Charles Darwin (1809-1882), a would-be clergyman turned naturalist with, of course, no qualifications in the field he was to make his name. History will record his enduring legacy as an excellent mechanism for evolutionary stasis. His marriage to his cousin Emma Wedgewood produced 10 children but not surprisingly only 2 survived into adulthood. His writings had a ...
338. The Saturn Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... thesis well supported by evidence but lacking a viable physical model. Darwin's theory of evolution languished for decades under the objection that it lacked a viable model of heredity which could explain how the much needed genetic changes could originate and come to be fixed (rather than blended, as per earlier models of heredity). Already by the time of Darwin, there was a wealth of evidence that evolution had occurred (how else are we to explain the fact that modern whales occasionally show traces of vestigial hind limbs and hip girdles?) but a viable model of heredity was not yet at hand, to say nothing of a chemical model for genetic mutation or embryonic differentiation. Even today ...
339. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... fortunate combination of amino acids happening to coalesce billions of years ago and that our most profound experiences are simply electrical impulses derived from the logical consequence of that first accident." We've heard such sentiments expressed before, of course, but rarely with so much gusto and charm. Deloria's indictment of modern evolutionary theory recalls George Bernard Shaw's denunciation of Darwinism earlier in the century: "Natural selection has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had ...
340. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... different species'. Attenborough also seems prone to seize eagerly on appealing theories without making sure of his ground, leading to at least one serious factual blunder in that untrained flatworms, fed the flesh of trained ones do not run the training maze correctly without training as he states. However, it is in the field of blind, dogmatic Darwinism that LIFE ON EARTH excels. From the opening facile explanation of speciation by natural selection, to the closing description of early man's history during a conventional ice-age, we are treated to example after example of unquestioning acceptance of uniformitarian principles. Throughout, all evolutionary development is set against a time scale of a year's' existence in the history ...
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