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63 pages of results. 411. Reconciling Celestial Mechanics and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... advanced by Donald Menzel in 1952 to add zest to his "quantitative refutation of Velikovsky's wild hypothesis" that the sun is electrically charged (7 ). In the first place, as Professor Fernando Sanford pointed out 40 years ago, "[ Such] conclusions are all based upon the assumption that electric charges are held to conductors by [gravity] .. . If this assumption were correct, it would be impossible to give a negative charge to any small conductor while in the gravitation field of the earth (8 ). " Sanford also pointed out that "a soap bubble and a platinum sphere of the same diameter, if joined by a connecting wire and charged from ...
412. "Mechanics Bears Witness" [Journals] [Pensee]
... located near the surface of the Sun and that its magnitude should be somewhat reduced. Alfvén (1963) regards the value as excessive. Menzel (1952) rejected a similar value that he obtained by a crude calculation in an effort to refute Velikovsky's theories, in which no quantitative value had been offered. Mechanical Effects of Electric Charge-Apparent Solar Gravity Constant Two point-charges of electricity exert equal and opposite forces on each other in the same manner that two gravitational point masses do; the force is directed along the line joining the two, and its magnitude is proportional to the product of the charges (masses) and to the inverse second power of their separation distance. A planet far ...
413. Velikovsky and the Apparatus of Scholarship [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fair hearing, but equally it is the fault of Dr Velikovsky's supporters, and to a great extent of Dr Velikovsky himself. First of all, Dr Velikovsky's theses concern the realms of science, if they are concerned with anything at all. He deals with chemistry and physics, astronomy and astrophysics, geology and palaeontology, celestial mechanics and gravity, to name but a few of the hard sciences in which he has laboured. When scientific supporters do emerge for Dr Velikovsky's hypotheses, however, all too frequently they are discovered to be working in areas of their discipline other than those with which Velikovsky has been concerned. His enemies have been quick to point this out. As ...
414. Erratics [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... of a glacier moving a giant boulder at its base up a slope. Ice moves downhill by melting at the base. Gravitational flow of the water and mass above are always in the down slope direction. However, to move uphill is another matter altogether. When ice melts at the base, the water at the surface, due to gravity, always runs downhill and then refreezes. Water can never run up a slope against the gradient of gravity. Therefore, a glacier, at its base, must always flow downhill, never up. Under this condition, it will never be capable of pushing an immense boulder uphill because it cannot flow uphill. Nevertheless, establishment scientists ...
415. Book Review/Thorne [Journals] [Aeon]
... along with the independent research of Charles Misner, a former Wheeler student- proposed that, as matter and energy closely approached the singularity, increasingly violent oscillations would develop. The Soviet BKL team went further, in that these oscillations in space and time would become profoundly chaotic, and normal (classical) spacetime phenomena would be supplanted by quantum gravity. In such a continuum, time would cease to exist while space would be caught up and distorted into a wildly chaotic probabilistic froth, which Wheeler- with his penchant for the bon mot- would call quantum foam. But a view of such a process may be forever barred from our own naughtily inquiring eyes, in spite of ...
416. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , electrical birth of the moon. They take the dendritic form of Lichtenberg figures, which look like some river systems on Earth. However, no rains of methane and no flowing "rivers" will ever be observed on Titan. The sinuosity and flow direction of the channels will defy the known physics of liquids draining under the influence of gravity. Catchment areas and feeder streams will be lacking. Tributaries will be stubby, often beginning in a circular crater, and have a tendency to join the main channels at right angles. [In ad hoc fashion, the Huygens science team interprets the stubby tributaries to represent springs' of methane seeping out of the ground, instead of ...
417. Propaganda And Scientific History [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... and other near collisions thereafter were "independent" probabilities. Jastrow correctly understood that the other near collisions were "interdependent" and not "independent" just as Velikovsky had properly criticized Sagan on this very point. Jastrow stated what Davidson could not bring himself to report, namely that "Professor Sagan's calculations in effect, ignore the law of gravity. Here Dr. Velikovsky was the better astronomer."33 This very same criticism was also presented by Dr. Robert Bass, a mathematician, whose field of research is celestial mechanics. Both these 31 Keay Davidson, Carl Sagan A Life (N .Y . 1999), p. 470. 32 Ibid, pp. ...
418. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 1 .05, p. 38 and 5.3 .05, pp 34-37) Science magazines are beginning to realise that there are a lot of anomalies which as yet defy rational explanation. New Scientist gave a short list of 13, including the placebo effect, inexplicable energetic cosmic rays, homeopathy, the behaviour of spinning galaxies which gravity cannot explain, the unexpected acceleration of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, apparently varying constants' and cold fusion. Significantly, 8 are astronomical problems, 3 are physics problems and only 2 are biological. Do we assume the other disciplines have no anomalies, or are they too numerous to list? Another controversial fusion research paper claims ...
419. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... No.3 and demonstrates the unacceptability of natural selection and speciation according to the conventional principles of uniformitarian theory. Astronomy Contributors under this heading include Charles Ginenthal, Earl Milton, Frederick Hall, Roger Ashton, Frederic Jeuneman and Robert Driscoll. Ginenthal proposes his Electro-Gravitic Theory of Celestial Motion; his exposition of the role played by the two forces gravity and electro-magnetism appears to succeed in explaining why some orbits are more elliptical than others, why some rotations are faster than others why some celestial bodies cluster together and some do not, and a host of other familiar and less familiar phenomena. Milton presents an interesting challenge to Ginenthal based on the former's reluctance to accept the need for gravity ...
420. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Physics in New Jersey, was quoted as writing, This isn't science. Big Bang predictions are consistently wrong and are being fixed after the event' Today's accepted cosmology is apparently an ill-fitting conglomeration of theories including the Big Bang, inflation, dark matter, dark energy etc. Dark matter had to be invented as a sort of band-aid because gravity alone is insufficient to explain observations. Indeed, one researcher has been assessing measurements of gravity and came to the conclusion that it is science's least constant constant'. A reader, in response to the Chown article, wrote, Fundamental theories seem increasingly bizarre, quixotic and just plain wrong. The ineluctable conclusion is that the remainder of ...
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