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36 pages of results. 231. Letters [Journals] [Pensee]
... ) suggested that we train synthetists, experts on the perception of interrelationships. I'm not sure this is possible. My feeling is that it is a genetically-determined phenomenon and that people like Velikovsky belong to the genotype. A second aspect of the Velikovsky phenomenon is the degree of perturbation he created with his books. I cannot help but remember that Einstein said that a simple experiment can negate thousands. The emotionalism engendered by Velikovsky's considerations among individuals trained to be objective at least suggests the possibility that their earlier findings were in jeopardy and their high key reaction was largely defensive. To recognize that one's published pronouncements might be incorrect is not particularly pleasant and protection of one's brain children is not ...
232. Victory of The Sun [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Chaos and Creation, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWELVE Victory of The Sun Albert Einstein once remarked. "What is inconceivable about the Universe is that it should be at all conceivable." We have spoken of things beyond immediate belief. They seem to be miracles. But miracles are everywhere, in a true sense. Before it happens, your next sight- whatever you next see when you lift your eyes- is a miracle. Its every detail could never have been predicted. Still, surprisingly, after you see it, a full report can demonstrate that the view was no miracle: it was ordinary. That is why old ...
233. Aftermath to Exposure [Books] [de Grazia books]
... compulsion to read it, and Rabinowitch did likewise with another article, at the same time throwing the weight of his journal's prestige behind a renewal of the campaign to brand Velikovsky as incompetent. Another phenomenon is the alacrity with which scientist-critics of Velikovsky proclaim their own objectivity by citing their acceptance of Einstein's theories. Again and again the name of Einstein or the theory of relativity has been brought forward in comparisons of Velikovsky and Einstein which are intended to justify the different receptions accorded their works. Einstein's theory, held in highest esteem in spite of the fact that even after half a century there is no indisputable proof of its validity, is held up as a model scientific theory; ...
234. Discussion with Wal Thornhill and Ralph Sansbury [Articles]
... speed of light is the absolute limit of speed, and although I've always fancied that this will eventually be disproved, how does your remark about surpassing the speed of light within these sub-atomic particles fit in- do they obey a different law or is this in fact against the Einsteinian theory? Ralph Sansbury: One of the reasons for the Einstein theory, with the experiments done just about that time by Kaufman in Germany in 1901 or before that, there were radium particles that were taken and guided through electrostatically charged plates and a coil, this way or that way of electric current from the magnetic field, and these radioactive nuclei of Radium were popped through this thing and then ...
235. Science and Novelty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... valuable one! - of setting observation and deduction against dogmatism, but someone who had overturned Aristotle's dogmas to substitute his own. This is like confusing a person who combats tyranny with one whose aim is to take the tyrant's place. Apart from the more specific aspects concerning physics, the conceptual revolutions of direct universal value achieved by Galileo and Einstein consist in liberating the human mind from narrow, egocentric views of the world: from the rigid idea that the celestial spheres were centred on our own planet and, in a similar way, from the rigid conception of a separate and absolute frame of reference for space and time which make some one observer a privileged being with respect to ...
236. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... inscription in God's own handwriting on some granite cliff saying [Upside down text: this way up] Fundamentalists will, no doubt, point out that that very inscription is already to hand, in the Bible (Isaiah ch.24 v.1 ), but, for us lesser mortals, God works in more mysterious ways. Albert Einstein was quite good at figuring out such mysterious ways, by all accounts. In 1953, writing to Prof. Charles Hapgood, Einstein said (in translation): "One can hardly doubt that significant shifts of the crust of the Earth have taken place repeatedly and within a short time." That, I remind you, was ...
237. Thoth Vol III, No. 8: May 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... : "If I have had an underlying purpose in my life it has been to watch for intellectual explorers who have been marginalised by their peers. They are often those who have the audacity to use their imagination, uncommon-sense and courage to challenge the paradigm paralysis institutionalised in western science. "We must not let the reputation of even an Einstein stand in our way when seeking better paradigms. We must simply allow for the possibility that he was wrong." Hopefully, the truth will eventually out, justice be done, and courage be rewarded. But don't expect any mercy on April 1.- THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING BY PAUL DAVIES Response by Wal Thornhill Is it conceivable ...
238. Psychoceramics [Journals] [Aeon]
... a powerful electromagnetic theory. Inventions were flowing like water from the laboratories of Edison and Tesla, who made almost instantaneous use of Maxwell's results. And, the calculations of Charles Proteus Steinmetz made the uses of electricity not only more practical but predictable as well. After the turn of the century Max Planck initiated quantum mechanics. Shortly thereafter Albert Einstein published his special theory of relativity and the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, flew their aeroplane at Kitty Hawk. The world seemed assured of a near infinity of marvelous inventions and discoveries. But then the universe collapsed. Western civilization inexplicably was plunged into World War I, and with this debacle the scientific mindset shifted from an infinite ...
239. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... researchers had yet ventured through that door. One could not enter the realm of Velikovskian research without raising the most fundamental questions about the history of the solar system and planet Earth. It was interesting to learn that prior to the explosive controversy, many scholars around the world held Velikovsky in high esteem. He had been a colleague of Albert Einstein. He was a respected psychoanalyst, and was the founder and editor of the scholarly journal, Scriptas Universitatis, the physics section being edited by Einstein. But Velikovsky's academic accreditation would not redeem him when it came to challenging the pillars of modern science. Worlds in Collision In Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky drew on widespread myths and images ...
240. The AAAS Affair: from Twenty Years After [Books]
... were in the pipeline, and would soon have followed: The Dark Age of Greece; the succeeding volumes of the Ages in Chaos series, including The Assyrian Conquest, Ramses II and His Time, and Peoples of the Sea; In the Beginning (the "prequel" to Worlds in Collision); Before the Day Breaks (the Einstein book); The Test of Time; Mankind in Amnesia, Stargazers and Gravediggers; and Velikovsky's autobiography, Days and Years. All of these books were near completion. But every one of them was put on hold while Velikovsky sought to take full advantage of the late-breaking news from space. Probably the Mankind in Amnesia delay was what ...
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