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... to its axis so that its obliquity would be increased in proportion to its inequality of balance like an ill-weighted peg-top, and as every schoolboy knows, the earth to-day is inclined away 23o 27' 14' from the Pole of the Ecliptic, so that its Poles stretch down 23o 27' 14' accordingly; and, thirdly, the law of gravity would demand that its annual rotation round the sun should compensate for this added weight. As to the first the Poles have shifted from a direction which 1 fancy lay before somewhere about the neighbourhood of Kamschatka; the Arctic circles have increased their areas considerably as a result of the added obliquity as we know from many indications ; and as ...
592. Further Comments on the Saturnian Configuration Theory (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... imagined and therefore form an unbeatable test of the polar configuration model. Arguments about the stability of the polar configuration based purely on gravitational forces do not address the situation that I am describing of a short term dynamic equilibrium during electrical capture by the Sun. It is possible to achieve stability in that situation with two forces acting between planets, gravity and the electric force, where one attracts and the other repels. As for the polar configuration having existed in free space, far from other stars, I do not see how that could work because the axial alignment of the planets could not be maintained as they orbited about the center of mass of the system. Discussion about a ...
593. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... do the Chinese. Every so often the western world has suffered recurring fears of armageddon, especially if anything unusual appears to do with the sky, and Clube suggests that many of our cultural revolutions have been a repressive response to this. The discovery that Halley's Comet was in a parabolic orbit led Newton to discover the inverse square law of gravity and realise the comet's potential danger to Earth, but he covered up this fact due to religious pressure. At the beginning of the 19th century a scare was raised over the Leonid swarm, but when Biela's comet broke up, and apparently only into harmless dust, authority seized the chance to reassure the public that we live in a ...
594. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - II (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... evidence. Saxl's experiments with charged pendulums proved beyond doubt that electromagnetism does effect motion. It also casts serious doubt on every equation raised in rebuttal to the concept of electromagnetic celestial mechanics. If charged pendulums accelerate differently than traditional gravitational theory predicts, extrapolation to celestial bodies seems a perfectly valid possibility. After all, Newton based his assumptions regarding gravity on evidence that existed on Earth. He reasoned that what affects motion on Earth applies to the planets. E. J. Saxl proved electromagnetic force on Earth affects motion. Therefore, why is Newton's extrapolation any more valid than doing the same for proven electromagnetic phenomena? .. . Charles Ginenthal Forest Hills, NY THE SETTLING OF ...
595. The Inconstant Sun [Journals] [Kronos]
... all the outer planets in the same configuration. This last hint is the most tantalizing. Because of their movements at different speeds in their orbits at different distances from the Sun, the pattern made by the planets at any time seems to be ever-changing. But following the intractable laws of celestial mechanics, including both the influence of the Sun's gravity and little tugs from one another, the planets actually move so that this heavenly clockwork of the Solar System resets itself every 179 years. So the planets are aligned just the same way, as I write this chapter in 1979, as they were in 1800. Even with only 300 years of telescopic sunspot records, some Western astronomers ...
... The contrary appears to be the case. The earth is not shrinking, but is slowly and surely expanding. The earth's orbit is now 365.24 days, and even that odd quarter represents an accretion of materia during the historic period. The earth, in short, is slowly receding from the sun in accordance with the law of gravity because of its added weight. 87. It is a usual occurrence on the other hand to discover earthquake areas elevated instead of depressed. Scrope mentions the Leeward Isles, Caracas and Venezuela, whose earthquakes are observed not only to produce numerous fissures or rents through the existing rocks, but to " elevate them perceptibly, at each successive ...
597. Halton Arp: A Modern-Day Galileo [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the redshift have been proposed by conventional astronomers. [38] Plasma cosmologists add even more. Tony Peratt supports Emil Wolf's electrical redshift mechanism: The emissions of multiple charged particles combine to form harmonics, much like undertones and overtones in music, whose peaks and nodes mimic a velocity redshift. [39] Wal Thornhill's electric universe expects gravity to be a function of electric charge, so that the newly-ejected matter, stripped of most of its electrons, would have a low gravitation constant, emitting light at lower energy from each individual atom. Personally, I tend to be a big-picture person, so I will wrap this article up with a big-picture point of view. No ...
... without saying that even after a satisfactory balance had been restored as far as rotation was concerned this balance was only empirical', not absolute. For one thing, the satellitic material had not come down evenly and been distributed in a perfect circle or, rather, arc of a circle. Geophysical research has ascertained that the terrestrial centre of gravity does not coincide with the exact centre of the figure of the Earth, but lies some way to the south of the geometrical centre. Hence a greater aggregation of heavy material must still remain in the southern hemisphere. The new equator eventually passed through northern Angola, the southern Belgian Congo, Dar-es-Salaam, southern Ceylon, southern Siam, ...
599. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... giant extinct mammals and dinosaurs weren't quite as big as previously thought. However, they are still left with the problem of why even the largest land mammals have never achieved the dimensions of the sauropod dinosaurs, whereas modern marine mammals are far larger than any of the ancient marine reptiles. Might we suggest that warmbloodedness helps the marine mammals but gravity hinders land animals? Mendelian laws contravened Scientific American, March 1993, pp. 89 and 112 Classical Mendelian genetics dictates that the germ plasm cannot be influenced by the ordinary body cells of an organism and that natural selection can therefore only operate on genes changed by mutation. Scientists are now finding many ways in which this rule is violated ...
600. The Terrestrial Sea: A Critical Model of Science and Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... to maintain Earth's rotational angular momentum, where both the Sun and the Moon are the disrupting bodies, dynamically and visibly affecting Earth's oceans. Thus oceanic tides are the sum and difference equilibria events between these two extraterrestrial bodies on a dynamically rotating Earth. It also takes into account the centrifugal effect of the Earth-Moon system, where the center of gravity of this system is some 3000 miles off-radius from the center of the Earth in the direction of the Moon. In any case, the antipodal tides are never as high as the primary tide. A polar extraterrestrial body, however, adds an additional vector to this proposition, and would perforce involve a Lagrange libration point positioning. ( ...
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