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63 pages of results. 501. Actualism in Geology and in Geography [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... space and in time, but also that those variations are not the same for the various processes that are modelling the earth's surface. RUTTEN (15a, p. 65) distinguishes between endogenic and exogenic processes, but the matter is more complicated: for some exogenic forces extrapolation from present observations is more hazardous than for others (weathering, gravity). In some of the debates still another aspect comes in. Does uniformity of intensity' imply uniformity of the rate of change, i.e . of the amounts of energy involved, or does it also cover changes in these amounts according to some law? That is: do we assume the first or the second difference ...
502. Compendium [Journals] [Pensee]
... , University of California (Berkeley) Myth and the Science of Catastrophism. A Reading of the Pyramid Texts Dr. Sidney Willhelm- professor of sociology, State University of New York (Buffalo) Sociological Implications and Interpretations of the Velikovsky Affair Dr. George Grinnell- assistant professor of history (of science), McMaster University (Ontario) Gravity- A Historical Probe Into the Errors of Science In Its Opposition to Velikovsky CONCLUDING SESSION Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky Mankind In Amnesia Dr. William Birenbaum- president, Staten Island Community College Moderator- Discussion and Response Publication The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Pensée. Ralph Juergens' paper, as well as a brief address by ...
503. The Velocity of Light In Relation to Moving Bodies [Journals] [Pensee]
... ) acquired it. Ritz objected to the thesis of constancy, claiming that the velocity of an illuminating body adds itself to the velocity of propagation of light c, the resultant being c+ v. De Sitter disposed of Ritz' argument by offering to consider a case of a double star whose two members revolve around the common center of gravity on orbits situated in the plane of the observer on earth. If the velocity of light from each of the stars is c - v while receding from the observer and c+ v while approaching, the beams of light, after traveling at varying speeds for many years to reach the observer, would present the pair in a most ...
504. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of chemical reactions, resulting in the formation of nitrates. Einstein Eclipsed (New Scientist, 27.11.04, pp. 28-31) Mysterious phenomena which take place at the time of solar eclipses have led some physicists to claim that there might be a serious flaw in Einstein's theory of relativity. It appears that something unusual happens to gravity at the time of an eclipse. Sensitive gravimeters give readings which fluctuate wildly and swinging pendulums begin to move erratically. Normally, the plane in which a pendulum swings rotates slowly with respect to the room it is in as the Earth rotates during the day, but during an eclipse it begins to rotate backwards. French physicist Allais first ...
505. The Venus Tablets and Climate [Journals] [SIS Review]
... visionis values corresponding to the recorded setting and rising dates of Venus [9 ]. Most of them come below 8 degrees. Thus, given the climatic conditions of frequent dust storms without rain to wash the dust out of the atmosphere, there is nothing abnormal in finding invisibility periods which are longer than computed. Dust without rainfall depends on gravity to settle. Such settling would take a long time and, in the interval, the next dust storm would probably have replenished the supply. Thus the Babylonians had to observe through dust during large parts of the year. They used temple-towers as observatories, presumably to avoid the worse dust concentrations at ground level. According to Maccabee: ...
506. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and Jupiter have produced some results which may be relevant here [7 ]. Simulations of Solar System birth and growth by accretion from a dusty nebula show debris in the inner nebula rapidly conglomerating into planetary embryos of about lunar size, which collide to form four planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars-like sizes. Initial simulations assumed proto-Jupiter's gravity would so stir the material between Jupiter and Mars that embryos could not form there (consistent with the merely rubble-population of the asteroid belt) but did not explain why the total mass of rubble (1 /200 Earth mass) is so low; hence recent simulations have included dozens of planetary embryos in the belt. Gravitational attraction between ...
507. Kicking The Sacred Cow: Questioning The Unquestionable And Thinking The Impermissible (Book review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... . But his published work was again ignored, although it interested theoretician Eric Lerner who had entertained a similar thought. However, Lerner's subsequent papers were rejected by peer reviewers since he relied on Alfvén, who was considered a maverick and who therefore couldn't be taken seriously by mainstream physics. (Thank goodness they haven't yet repealed the law of gravity!) And this despite the three tenets of Science: Observation, Experimentation, and Theory. Peratt himself had attempted to put some practicality into a cosmological science usually devoid of any means of experimentation, since what can a celestial mechanic use for a wrench? In the following section, Hogan takes on the Theory of Relativity, but ...
508. Einstein and Relativity [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to be even greater at very high speeds close to the speed of light, yet Einstein made no attempt to prove his assumption that his result for uniform motion would also apply to motion in a curve. A letter to New Scientist pointing this out ( 'Letters', 21st October 1995) provoked one response which discussed the effects of gravity (not part of Einstein's original analysis) and another which claimed that it was not Einstein but Dingle who had made the error ( 'Letters', 18th November). Although it is pretty clear that Einstein was wrong, the (presumably knowledgeable) correspondents who wrote to New Scientist were simply not prepared to concede that the great ...
509. High Energy from Space [Books] [de Grazia books]
... "An actual collision would raise a column of vapor and debris that easily could measure one thousand miles in diameter at the base, and possibly larger at the top after the fashion of the atom bomb explosions. This column might tower something like five thousand miles above the earth, the higher particles doomed to float out beyond the reach of gravity... This catastrophic column would be "a gigantic chemical laboratory," arranged in levels downwards, outwards and upwards. Its pyrolysis would continue for some time to "add to the generation of coal beds, oil crudes, baked shales, sand-stones, firerock, hard pan, and to many specific, but generally unexplained mineral ...
510. Marx, Engels, and Darwin [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , if the following steps are developed in the present research inquiry, the matter may be cast in a different light: 1. The Uniformitarians adhered to a paradigm of science that can be abstracted and observed as a developing process. Its elements were composed typically of the following beliefs: time and space are absolute; the Newtonian laws of gravity and motion govern natural events rigidly; the heavens are constant and the universe is orderly; they operate through measurably equal units of time and through measurably equal coordinates of space; time is long and uninterrupted by sudden leaps; the surface of the earth has accumulated its features over long periods of time; nor are sudden leaps found in ...
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