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63 pages of results. 441. Sagan vs. Sagan [Journals] [Kronos]
... 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 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." Despite Sagan's later protestations, Jastrow stood firm and pointed out Sagan's error once again in Science Digest (Special Edition)- ...
... large mountainous masses of material. Such evidence would not be conjecture, but well-known physical and observational fact that could help settle this question. Does such a terrestrial body exist with extreme internal temperature? The answer is yes': it is Jupiter's Galilean moon lo! Because of the nature of Io's orbit, this moon is stressed by Jupiter's gravity so that the tidal forces on this small satellite are enormous. lo is deformed so strongly that its surface is literally being changed rapidly by volcanic activity. Pictures of the satellite show volcanic explosions of great intensity. According to Joseph Veverka in The Planets, edited by Byron Preiss (NY 1985) p. 126, between the observations ...
443. Response to Critique by Leroy Ellenberger [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Mars to capture even one asteroid on the fly stretches credulity to its limit. But two? Both similarly smitten with the "small pox"? No. Never. Ellenberger has not done his homework on the Deimos-Phobos issue, and apparently neither have his associates. We suggest that Mars' ring system was swept out by the Earth's greater gravity during flybys, sector by sector, percent by percent, during some 150 to 200 ancient flyby episodes. Some of those sweeps include such inner asteroids as Amor, Apollo, Eros, Icarus, and an asteroid discovered in 1988, with its perigee at March 23, within 60 hours of one of the two ancient flyby dates/ ...
444. Mechanics of the Great Deluge [Books]
... have a true axis or Axis of Spin around which it rotates in a position and a manner determined by these external forces. It is thus cosmic forces of extraterrestrial nature that cause the earth to rush through space, revolve around the sun, rotate on an axis, and wobble. The development of the theory of "The Drag of Gravity," discussed in Part II, has become a natural by-product of the research required to establish the theory of the intermittent careenings of the globe and the recurrent cataclysms. The bulge of the earth has been created and is maintained by the external forces which rotate the earth and produce centrifugal force. Centrifugal force is the direct cause of ...
445. Computed Planetary Orbits and the Babylonian Observations of Venus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... near-circular, but it could have been any type of orbit, including the more eccentric orbit indicated by the records of the Babylonian tablets, depending on the position and velocity of the cosmic body when it was finally discharged. The material would have been ejected from Jupiter as a jet, and in the absence of forces additional to that of gravity it is necessary for its velocity to be greater than the escape velocity of Jupiter and less than that of the Solar System. This restriction is made much less onerous if the force of expulsion continues beyond the surface level of Jupiter and its atmosphere, as seems likely if the process is a form of electrical discharge. The material at ...
446. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... always stimulating. Geoffrey Gammon THE JOURNAL OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS vol.l , part 1, January 1982 (75pp) Journal of Classical Physics, Box 2212, Mount Vernon, New York 10550 In 1946 Velikovsky published a paper called "Cosmos without Gravitation" (SCRIPTA ACADEMIA HIEROSOLYMITANA, Scientific Report IV, 1946) in which he suggested that gravity is not a force different from the stronger electromagnetic forces but is, rather, a manifestation of weak bipolar electrostatic forces caused by the unbalanced charge distribution in otherwise electrically neutral atoms. However, this paper is rather unsatisfying in its broad brush approach to the problem. For those who are not satisfied either with Einstein's geometrical approach to the ...
447. Evolution from Space [Articles]
... dust clouds such as the Horsehead Nebula. The expulsion takes place by the action of the radiation pressure of starlight. Bacteria, it turns out, have exactly the right sizes and the right optical properties for this to happen, that is to say, for starlight to act on them, to exert a repulsive course on them that exceeds gravity. This is the main reason for the widespread occurrence of life: it is simply that bacteria have exactly the right sizes and exactly the right dielectric properties for the pressure force due to starlight to exceed gravity in many places. In a situation like this, a newly produced crop of grains would join myriads of other cells that await ...
448. Letters To The Edttor [Journals] [Aeon]
... in orbit about each other, with the terrestrial planets Venus, Mars, and Earth orbiting in a polar array beyond Saturn. These were likened by Grubaugh as mass-equivalents of two weighty bowling balls, a pair of insignificant golf balls, and a negligible marble. Because Jupiter is the more massive of the two gas giants, the center of gravity- the barycenter- is located closest to this body, so that Saturn would orbit farther out from the barycenter of the revolving binary. The respective positioning of Venus, Mars, and Earth beyond Saturn in a "kronosynchronous" orbit extended the array, which planets ostensibly were also collectively locked in a rotational synchrony centered on the outer ...
449. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... surroundings of NATURE, the Italian paper cites Cronin as stating that his team's work has confirmed Darwin and Huxley in their theory of gradual evolution and that it is possible to show from fossil evidence such evolution at work' Variations in G source: NATURE 16/7 /81, p. 230-2 A piece titled "Geophysical evidence for non-newtonian gravity" tells of a series of determinations of the gravitational constant G in mines, bore-holes and marine surveys. The knowledge of the variation of G with depth permits the calculation of the density of intervening rock strata. However, when the density of such rocks has been accurately measured then calculations can be performed to check the constancy of G ...
450. Quantalism: the Big Picture [Articles]
... called "the godly gamesomeness" of porpoises. And he observed that some of the larger whales, like hump-backs, were, despite their bulk, amusingly playful creatures. The best explanation for the sportive good humor of aquatic mammals may well be that water affords them a buoyancy that their land-lubber cousins lack. The catastrophist consensus suggests that pre-catastrophic gravity was appreciably less than post-catastrophic gravity. If this is so, we may reasonably infer that the levity, both literal and behavioral, which all creatures enjoyed before "the fall" no longer sustained land mammals. Aquatic mammals, however, may be presumed to have retained that levity-or at least to have lost far less of it than ...
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