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34 pages of results. 221. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... was a devout uniformitarian whose scholarly stance is both antiquated and untenable (see L.M . Greenberg, "Cataclysmic Evolution", KRONOS I:4 (1976), pp. 102-103). As a witness, Newell is discredited- Dismissed. Quoting Martin Bernal against anyone gives new meaning to the expression "People who live in glass houses...". Bernal's thesis in Black Athena of an "Afro-Asiatic" basis for Classical Greek culture has raised its own firestorm and engendered a controversy not unlike that which greeted Worlds in Collision (see Bernal's Black Athena, Vol. II, pp. xvi-xxii; and J.E . Coleman's article- along with Bernal's ...
222. Could an Explosive Volcanic Eruption be Produced by the Nearby Passage of a Cosmic Body? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... or throat' - of the volcano, where the structure of the cone can decide the type of eruption that ensues: in the case of Mount St Helens, a conical composite volcano, the eruption was powerfully explosive. The chemical composition of the magma also determines whether its steam and gas content blast the lava into fragments of ash and glass, or whether the volatiles escape from less viscous lava which then flows by welling from the vents and fissures (as happened at Etna). New glassy ash high in silica is an indicator of the explosive force of an eruption [6 ]: sulphur dioxide emission signals magma on the move [7 ]. The magma's chemical content ...
223. From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Fearful Symmetry of Catastrophism [Journals] [Kronos]
... was impossible to describe. There was no frame of reference from anything the observers had experienced before. In a brief moment, the light within twenty miles was equal to several suns at midday."(8 ) As far away as Albuquerque, Sante Fe, and El Paso the great light was seen; and the protective thick dark glasses worn by those at the test site must surely bring to mind the passage from Exodus (33:23), where by special grace Moses is allowed to see the back of Yahweh but not His face, "for there shall no man see Me and live."(9 ) Yet on that fateful July day there were ...
... gain widespread popularity there until the 1950's. The new art was a reflection of the awareness of the new complexity of the world- and of the new advances in psychology and technology. These advances became manifest not only in the subject material but, increasingly, in the physical materials used. Sculptors, for example, began molding industrial metals, glass, and plastics into new shapes and functions. Nevertheless, despite being a product of the very same forces that forged the political dialectic of the time, Modern Art esthetics were seemingly antithetical to the feelings and forces which spawned the McCarthyist movement. Instead of conformity and traditionalism, modernism promoted individualistic experimentation. One of the new sculptors, ...
225. Introduction (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... , dealt with as Part Three, in part because Velikovsky's full impact on American culture is perhaps not yet fully apparent. He has, however, had some impact: for instance, National Book Award poet Robert Bly once admitted that Velikovsky "had a great influence on my view of things", (3 ) and avant-garde composer Philip Glass wrote the music for a Velikovskian-inspired opera, Akhnaton, and hoped to get Velikovsky to write the libretto. The specific factors that concern me in this study are alluded to in its title: Velikovsky's "Jewish Science." Originally this was a euphemism for psychoanalysis used by Velikovsky's own training analyst, Wilhelm Stekel, as in his letter ...
226. 'Worlds in Collision' After Heinsohn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the impact of these revisions on the work as a whole. Egypt In Wann lebten die Pharaonen [18], Heinsohn and Illig adduce evidence - less from stratigraphy, of which there is very little for Egypt, than from developmental sequences in artefacts and technology (vaults, pyramids, gold masks, bronze statues, ivory, lyres, glass, iron, ships) - to dismantle the traditional sequence of Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Velikovsky left this structure untouched though, like Heinsohn, he had little use for the largely vacant Late Period' which has been pieced together to fill the first millennium from the New Kingdom to Alexander the Great. Heinsohn and Illig associate ...
227. The Inconstant Heavens [Books] [de Grazia books]
... en morceaux comme verre. ( 'I have come to tell you a great piece of news. We have, Madam, while sleeping, had a narrow escape. A world has passed by us, has fallen across our vortex, and if it had on its way met our Earth, it would have broken it into pieces like glass. ') NEWTON The Renaissance view of life and of the world, which can be summed up by the word mutability, was created by personalities of heroic stamina and required the leadership of such personalities for its preservation, for indeed, it is not easy to live in a world where the only divinity is Fortuna and nothing is ...
228. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . 3, No. 3, Oct 97, p. 3 Lightning not only creates nitrogen compounds and ozone but causes reactions which acidify rain by a process that is faster than anything that (scientists) presently recognise'. Unusual lightning phenomena include ball lightning which passes through windows, either leaving them untouched or neatly excising a lens of glass, and balls of light being spawned from thunder clouds and moving at high speeds as though with a life of their own. Light displays associated with electrical storms are often far from what is considered normal. Sometimes they emit a yellow-green light and of interest in this respect is the phenomenon of a mysterious green glow in the night sky ...
229. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is a powerful accelerator and the number of particles increases every 13 months when Jupiter, Earth and the Sun are in line. The Jupiter Effect' resurrected? Spooky glows New Scientist 17.1 .98, p. 6, 13.12.97, pp. 42-6 Liquid mercury emits an eerie glow as it swirls around a glass flask as it builds up and discharges static electricity. A mysterious light is found at the bottom of the sea where it was previously assumed to be pitch black. Arising around mid ocean ridges where deep sea hot vents are the domain of bacterial and animal life only discovered in the last few years, the cause of the light is ...
230. The Radiocarbon Dating Method [Journals] [Pensee]
... dating. The "laundry" of the dating materials is done by common sense and understanding. For example, charcoal is a favorite type of material for C14 dating since man is the only animal able to make fire. Charcoal is never attacked chemically. The first move with a charcoal sample is to examine the material under a low-power magnifying glass and to remove with tweezers foreign materials such as plant rootlets. Then an acid wash is used to remove carbonates and this is followed by an alkaline wash to remove humic acids. Normally this is adequate and the treatment ends with a thorough distilled water washing before drying and burning to give the carbon dioxide which is measured for radiocarbon in ...
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