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63 pages of results. 491. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... See W in C I, chap. viii. 6. W in C I, viii: "Jubilee". 7. In his "proof" of this assertion, which did not appear for two years, Sagan takes the brilliant step of using the theory of non-interacting billiard balls from statistical mechanics, in which the Law of Gravity is completely neglected. [See also Bookshelf in our last issue. - Ed.] Moreover, there are very small changes which can be made in his argument, so as to give the benefit of the doubt to Velikovsky - and which are perfectly permissible, even within the framework of his own "proof" - and these ...
... sufficient detail to ask him to carry out observational astronomical tests. Velikovsky had also sent copies of Cosmos without Gravitation to various astronomers and academic institutions) Perhaps Shapley had not read Worlds in Collision, but he was certainly acquainted with the gist of Velikovsky's ideas. Larrabee [2 io] accused Payne-Gaposchkin of not being familiar with Velikovsky's notions about gravity, yet she had indeed read Cosmos without Gravitation [288]. So, with hindsight, we recognize that the refrain of "criticism before reading" is not quite the whole truth. Larrabee [21 iJ led the unwary astray by stating that a hot Venus with atmospheric hydrocarbons was a necessary consequence of Velikovsky's theory (whereas those ...
493. Opening the Floodgates [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... cause the Flood, it invoked divine intervention to widen cracks in the Earth's surface and release waters from beneath. Burnet believed this sudden release of water might have shaken the Earth on its axis and produced the present tilt. In John Woodward's similar system, materials carried by or released from the waters of the Flood sedimented according to their specific gravities to form horizontal strata, which were later dislocated by depressions and elevations of unspecified origin to form the patterns his contemporaries could observe. William Whiston agreed that some of the waters of the Flood had been released from the central Abyss, but he considered that the major proportion had fallen as rain derived from the vapours in the tail of ...
494. Beyond Bauer [Journals] [Aeon]
... . Bauer directed a significant amount of his criticism at Velikovsky's Cosmos without Gravitation, a privately published manuscript circulated at a select few libraries prior to the appearance of Worlds in Collision. Not being well-versed in the physical sciences myself, I can only defer to Bauer's judgment that Velikovsky was virtually inept when it came to explaining such diverse phenomena as gravity, cloud formation, or the behavior of gases. Bauer's conclusion, while devastating, appears to be well-founded: Cosmos without Gravitation shows Velikovsky to be out of his depth when it comes to physical science. He misrepresents theories and facts extant at the time he wrote- and not because he had not read about them, for he ...
495. Introducing Anomalistics: A New Field of Interdisciplinary Study [Journals] [Kronos]
... disciplinary spectrum. Of these, the most conspicuous, though not the most difficult, is parapsychology, the study of such phenomena as telepathy (mind-to-mind communication) and psychokinesis (" mind-over-matter" activity). Though it overlaps to some degree the domains of physics and religion, parapsychology, as its name suggests, has its center of intellectual gravity in the disciplinary vicinity of psychology among the social sciences. Noetics, the study of consciousness, while clearly related to both psychology and parapsychology, leans in the direction of ontology, epistemology, and other philosophical subdisciplines and ought perhaps, therefore, to be classified as one of the humanities rather than as one of the social sciences. ...
496. The Satellites of Neptune and the Origin of Pluto [Journals] [Kronos]
... estimate of the mass of Pluto. The apparent detection of frozen methane in the infrared spectrum of Pluto (Cruikshank et al., 1976) implied a reflection albedo of about 0.5 and therefore a diameter of about 3000 km, which in turn implied a mass of only perhaps 1/70,000,000 for estimated specific gravities of around 2. The detection of a satellite of Pluto has further lowered the mass estimate to 1/200,000,000 (Christy and Harrington, 1978), which is in the middle of the mass range of solar system satellites (e .g ., Triton is estimated to be 1/10,000, ...
497. Nova of Super Uranus and Ejection of the Moon [Books] [de Grazia books]
... appeared scoured of its covering; it was then, and is now, the deepest basin of the Earth's surface. The blow-off was so great that it pulled the great central magnet of the Earth 436 kilometers towards it, making the shortest circle line of the Earth's magnetic field of today pass through the Society Islands. The Earth's center of gravity was pitched five kilometers towards the great Pacific depression (Baker, 1954, p5). In this one brief event, the entire original Southern Hemisphere of the Earth's crust, was electrically ejected into the sky. The unbonding of the crustal granite and mantle from the subsurface magma involved a large transfer of energy. If the inter-body transaction ...
498. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Nature rejected their paper; only 10 years after the original magnetic measurements was a paper by yet other researchers published. There was still much ridicule, however, and another problem to explain. If new material was being produced at ocean ridges but the Earth was not expanding, where did the material go? By this stage satellites were measuring gravity anomalies and it became clear there were enormous deep sea trenches associated with earthquake zones. The old sea floor was being subducted into the trenches and the resulting stresses caused earthquakes. Plate tectonic theory was born and by 1970 there was a switch of paradigm, though 2 years later the top Russian geologist still would not accept the data' ...
499. The Laughing Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... should he avoid his debt and flee, I shall pay for him." Hephaestus cannot refuse. "It is not permitted me to say no', nor would it be proper." Why? Is this mere politeness, to move the plot along? But a plot in literature is as determined by psychology as falling rock by gravity. Is it respect for a feared uncle, brother of Zeus? Hephaestus once sympathized with a rebellion against Zeus; he is clamorously angry at his parents now. No; the end is foreseen because that is the way it happened in nature. Hephaestus cannot command the planetary gods. They move ultimately in freedom according to their natures ...
500. Mass Movements in Level Areas [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... important to analyze the processes taking place in dynamic flow, and to study the resulting features in soil profiles. In this analysis particle size is of secondary importance. It may be sand, silt or clay. We will use the general term mudflow' for a dynamic flow system of soil material. A mudflow derives its kinetic energy from gravity, added to which may be other slopealigned and horizontal acceleration forces, such as those occurring during earthquakes or worldquakes. A mudflow may be turbulent at high speed, but at lower speeds revert to laminar flow. This change occurs in a mudflow at a speed higher than in a waterflow, because of the higher viscosity of the material ...
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