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63 pages of results. 431. Saturn: In Myth and Religion [Journals] [Kronos]
... located at the top of the world. I referred to this mountain, but only in passing, as a lithic bulge.(42) This hypothesis has not yet been analyzed and, while I am not ready to discard it, I must caution other researchers that the notion of a tidal distortion of the lithosphere in response to Saturn's gravity at close quarters - as similarly proffered by Rose(43) is not itself without difficulty. The Egyptian Atum, who was also Saturn,(44) is made to utter some very significant words: "When I was alone . . . before I had found anywhere to stand or sit . . . before a perch had ...
432. THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR [Journals] [Aeon]
... credence to Velikovsky's assertions having to do with physical science- as did articles in Collier's, Harper's, Readers' Digest, and others. His assertion of analogy between the microcosm of the atom and the macrocosm of the Solar System was a rehashing of ideas superceded decades earlier; his statements about matters of spectroscopy, electricity and magnetism, and gravity, for example, were either dead wrong or so vaguely worded as to be entirely non-scientific; his predictions about the temperature of Venus, radio signals from Jupiter, and so forth were allusive and picturesque but impossibly vague from a scientific point of view, entirely untestable. But even apart from points of scientific fact or law, one ...
433. Noah's Ark -- Its Geometry [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... (2240 LB/tons). Total displacement at maximum load: 48,219 LT. Beam (at waterplane): 136.83' (At the waterline). Depth: 51'. Length: 513' (At the waterline). Block Coefficient with capacity load: .534 Distance Keel t Light ship center of gravity: 52.5'. Distance Keel t Deep load ship CG: 64.55'. Distance Keel t Light ship center of buoyancy: 17.608'. Distance Keel t deep load ship CB: 26.46'. Light ship GM (distance between cg and metacenter): 56.9'. ship ...
434. The Scars Of Mars Part II [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... years are speculated. Reasons are numerous, but beyond the scope of this essay. The theory presumes that the Sun's family of planets was captured, probably during one 20-year span, as a complex binary system was over-run by the Sun in its galactic travels. That complex system came in like a comet and was sorted out when the Sun's gravity pierced the gravitational bonds of the complex binary. The evidence points to a dating more nearly a quarter-million years ago, rather than 4.6 billions. Theory Number Two holds, secondly, that Mars had an ice ball satellite during that early era, before its orbit as described in Figure 1. Such is termed the "Pre-catastrophic ...
435. When The Comet Fell Ch.11 (The Riddle of the Earth) [Books]
... exodus to escape this threatened visitation, and at a place called Huehue Tlapallan assembled to revise their calendar. It seems distinctly probable that the star referred to was Sirius. The five intercalary days in all cases were a later adjustment of an earlier calendar caused by the alteration to the earth's orbit, which alteration is accountable by the laws of gravity owing to the additional weight borne by this appulsion called by geologists the Drift. Thus, it may be said on the evidence of the calendar that a very high civilisation, reckoning a 360-day year, was brought to a sudden termination or part termination by a catastrophe of the first magnitude. * " Vestiges of the Mayas," ...
436. Thoth Vol IV, No 9: May 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the errant planets of Worlds in Collision "quite beyond belief." Indeed, belief itself may be the greatest obstacle to objective investigation on this subject, given the inertia of prior assumptions. The very idea that wandering planets could quickly settle into their present highly uniform and predictable orbits is simply too much to countenance under accepted principles of Newtonian gravity and energy conservation. But in fact, the issue can be resolved dispassionately. The belief in uniform planetary motions over millions of years, though understandable, is just a belief. Placed within a wider field of evidence- a field ranging across the global testimony of ancient cultures and into a vast library of space age data- the very foundations ...
437. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... says that cosmologists are too conservative and should be more open to non-standard ideas about the Universe .. .the standard big bang model is based on a circular argument, and difficulties with that model stem from a failure to break out of the circle. ' Meanwhile scientists trying to shore up the theory are now resorting to ideas of variable gravity to explain some of their many problems. Or Black Holes?New Scientist 16.3 .91, pp. 33 and 43-47 Astronomers still cannot explain quasar jets and the enormous power which forms them. Although so much of the language used to describe the phenomena of cosmic jets smacks of electricity, theorists still insist on thinking only ...
438. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Velikovsky's thesis. Professor Sagan's error lay in the assumption that the collisions were independent of one another, so that the probability of a series of collisions would be the product of the separate probabilities for each collision. Dr Velikovsky pointed out that the collisions are not independent: in fact, if two bodies orbiting the sun under the influence of gravity collide once, that encounter enhances the chance of another, a fact well known in celestial mechanics. Professor Sagan's calculations, in effect, ignore the law of gravity. Here Velikovsky was the better astronomer." It is to be regretted that Jastrow did not point this out in the review of Broca's Brain he published before Velikovsky's death ...
439. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 3) [Journals] [Kronos]
... a major scientific boner in Professor Sagan's argument" concerning the odds against the collisions in Worlds in Collision. The "error lay in the assumption that the collisions were independent of one another.... Dr. Velikovsky pointed out that the collisions are not independent; in fact, if two bodies orbiting the sun under the influence of gravity collided once, that encounter enhances the chance of another, a fact well known in celestial mechanics. Professor Sagan's calculations, in effect, ignore the law of gravity. Here Velikovsky was the better astronomer." Then, after criticizing Velikovsky's scientific documentation on several grounds, Jastrow granted Velikovsky three correct predictions: "Venus is hot; ...
440. Thoth Vol I, No. 8: April 5, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... 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 ...
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