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63 pages of results. 611. Redshift! [Journals] [Aeon]
... Campbell, Jr., who would have been tickled by Halton Arp's indiscretion, wrote in his last science editorial published posthumously in Analog in December 1971: It has been shown that a whole galaxy, if it approaches the density of some of the known dense star clusters, can become a black galaxy, having light trapped by its deep gravity well. Then- what about a galaxy that's halfway to being a fully "black" galaxy? One in which the density has risen to such a degree that light would lose half its energy climbing out of thousands of lightyears to get into intergalactic space? Clearly, the light would be heavily redshifted. Now if you assume that ...
612. The Velikovsky Centenary Conference, New York, 1995 [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Original Hebrew writings e.g . flood stories, were revised by monotheism. The entire planetary story should be reconsidered. Session 6 - What is Left for Us? Sunday afternoon (Chairman: Roger Westcott) I was demonstrating my inverting globe to the Tresmans, Ralph Sansbury from Connecticut and Wal Thornhill and discussing with them electromagnetism versus gravity; so I missed session 6 and Martin Sieff's talk covering a vast range of Old Testament topics. Lynn Rose, in a Panel Discussion on Ancient History, strongly criticised Heinsohn and supported Velikovsky. Charles Ginenthal and Roger Westcott suggested avenues for further research; John Godanski and Adam Stuart told of contemporary US reactions to catastrophism by colleagues - ...
613. Thoth Vol II, No. 2: January 31 , 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... so-called because they have a pair of wispy star tails resembling an insect's antennae- began as two roughly equal spiral galaxies, shaped like the Milky Way. They contained few stars and were mostly composed of huge clouds of cold hydrogen gas. When they plowed into each other, the gas clouds were squeezed and heated and eventually collapsed under their own gravity. They formed more than 1,000 bright blue star clusters, each containing 100,000 to a million baby stars. Francois Schweizer, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, likened the process to dropping cold blobs of gas into a hot pressure cooker. "Like a string of firecrackers, these reservoirs of gas lit ...
614. Thoth Vol II, No. 12: July 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... a time when the events and celestial forms associated with them were no longer present. Of this collective urge, storytelling was only a small part. Of course, in the transmission of the stories over the centuries, there is not just a progressive degradation of the original integrity, but a natural psychological effect of distance and unfamiliarity. The gravity of the experience could only be diminished with time. And the meaning of the story elements would increasingly appear irrational or out of place, finding no explanation in natural experience. That is, of course, the reason why, with the rise of Greek rationalism, the mythical themes of tragedy became the themes of comedy as well. ...
615. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Pole Star [Books]
... societies altogether abolished (and we know of no reason why they should necessarily exist), any number of bodies might be united into a system endowed only with pendulum-like motions. The sun and stars might thus, by an abstract possibility, be totally devoid of advancing or circulatory movements, each swinging for ever to-and-fro through their common centre of gravity (The System of the Stars, by Agnes M. Clerke, 1890, p.329). It reminds one of the lines in Measure for Measure (iii, 2, 297) To draw with idle spiders' strings most pond'rous and substantial things. Professor J. Norman Lockyer FRS in the Nineteenth Century for July 1892 ...
616. Sagan's fifth problem: Chemistry & biology of the terrestrial planets (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... and oil beneath a meteorite crater in Sweden (news article, March 22). If this finding is confirmed, then vast amounts of hydro- carbons lie deeply hidden in the Earth's crust. This finding would have far reaching implications for energy related industries. "According to Professor Gold's hypothesis, once the planets were forming they generated enough gravity to alter the orbits of comets and asteroids. Many of these objects rich in hydrocarbons and other compounds struck the Earth. Therefore, natural gas and petroleum were derived from substances that fell from the sky. The conventional view of most scientists is that natural gas and petroleum originated from fossil remains of living organisms, vegetation," but ...
617. Beneath Bauer [Books]
... conviction at all for a scientist." (241) He seems entirely unaware that Robert Jastrow, director of the Institute for Space Studies at NASA and professor of astronomy (Columbia), had written five years before, on the occasion of Velikovsky's death, that ". . . 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." (242) Not well known to Bauer, however, despite his very extensive research on Velikovsky. Second, Bauer says ". . . Jueneman remarked that Velikovsky had been accused of publishing simply in order to make money, ...
618. The AAAS Affair: from Twenty Years After [Books]
... whether or not various combinations of magnetic and electrical circumstances might have been responsible for circularizing the orbit of Venus. It was puzzling and even rather sad that he would be under the impression that all of this had anything much to do with Velikovsky's scenario. Nearly all of what happened to Venus during its turbulent career would have been due to gravity. Even Einstein had told Velikovsky that the Velikovsky scenario, including the circular orbit of Venus, could have come about entirely by way of gravitational effects! Some electrical or magnetic effects, especially on close approach to other bodies, may have made the near-collisions and other passages a bit more spectacular, of course, but those effects had ...
619. Velikovsky in America [Journals] [Aeon]
... someone of Shapley's stature, the pamphlet too dogmatic in its dismissal of the most basic assumptions of modern science. Furthermore, besides being too general and dogmatic to be convincing, the booklet began with Velikovsky's weakest argument, a criticism of gravitational theory based on the observation that the gases in the atmosphere do not separate in accordance with their specific gravities. This approach made it quite apparent that Velikovsky was unaware of the quantitative kinetic theory of gases which conventionally explained the phenomenon. Velikovsky followed this argument by presenting a second "exception" to Newtonian gravitation theory: noting the existence of clouds, which are much heavier than air but hang suspended in the sky, he neglected to mention ...
620. From the Great Extremity to which the Jews were reduced to the taking of Jerusalem by Titus [Books]
... UPON THE CONFLAGRATION OF THE HOLY HOUSE. CONCERNING A FALSE PROPHET, AND THE SIGNS THAT PRECEDED THIS DESTRUCTION. 1. WHILE the holy house was on fire, every thing was plundered that came to hand, and ten thousand of those that were caught were slain; nor was there a commiseration of any age, or any reverence of gravity, but children, and old men, and profane persons, and priests were all slain in the same manner; so that this war went round all sorts of men, and brought them to destruction, and as well those that made supplication for their lives, as those that defended themselves by fighting. The flame was also carried ...
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