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220 pages of results. 441. Victory of The Sun [Books] [de Grazia books]
... god. "Collective amnesia" about the old planetary gods was almost total [4 ]. In fact the Earth and skies had been settling down for centuries. "In those last days of classical paganism," writes Jaquetta Hawkes, "the Sun God shone like a pharos for ships at sea, guiding them on their way or lighting them into a harbor where all conflicting ideas could anchor together in a kind of harmony and mental agreement." The West had become monotheistic in the sense of Solarianism before it was converted to Christ. The mentality and behavior that was possible and promised by the Age of Solaria did not replace more than a fraction of the human nature ...
... itself in absolute uniformity but always in infinite variety, atoms of all kinds were formed when materialization' started, and naturally infinitely more of the heavier' atoms than of the hydrogen. Hence, the translatory motion of the materializing' explosion cloud, which, as a burst of energy', originally may have approximated to the speed of light (a phenomenon shown by the material leaving all major novae), was slowed down so much that eventually it was reduced to little more than one ten-thousandth of that speed. Very probably the transformation of the chaotic nuclear explosion cloud into a gyrating nebular disk with a central condensation and innumerable subordinate condensations took place at about the same time ...
443. Some Comments on "Still Facing Many Problems" (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... twice as massive." I must admit that a planet losing 50 percent of its mass seems a strange idea. If it had been a star . . . But let me first point out that the interplanetary gas cloud solves not only one problem, but several. 1. Interplanetary discharges: Velikovsky described electrical discharges between planets. The light emitted by a visible discharge comes from ionization and deionization of gas. The solar wind that blows through interplanetary space today consists of a completely ionized plasma, and it is hard to see how any further ionization or deionization could take place there. Electric currents do flow through this plasma, but they are invisible, even at night. ...
444. Thoth Vol VII, No 2: Mar 15, 2003 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the universe evolves into what we see today. It doesn't really matter what happened "in the beginning". That second magic step can be adjusted to fix any discrepancy between observation and prediction, especially if you have dark matter and dark energy to patch up the chinks. Caption on reference page diagram "Cosmic History WMAP observer the first light to break free in the infant Universe, the afterglow of the Big Bang. This light emerged 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Patterns imprinted on this light reflect the conditions set in motion a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. In turn, the patterns are the seeds of the development of the structures ...
445. Problems With The Morning Star [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Codex dating and subsequent reinterpretation of the king lists the fall of the Toltecs is dated as late as the 10th Century AD. However, the mythological aspects regarding the destruction of the Toltec civilisation denote the perpetrator to be Huitzilopochtli, a form of the terrible Tezcatlipoca[23]. Mullen, in an interpretation of the Mesoamerican record in the light of Velikovskian catastrophes, shows that historians have been guilty of ignoring most of the historical record by dismissing it as myth[8 ]. He re-appraises the situation and presents archaeological evidence to indicate that the Toltec civilisation and the early culture at Teotihuacan were much older than commonly accepted at present. Even the orthodox historian is content to move ...
446. The Astronomer Royal. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... added the similarity in the duration of one rotation of Earth and Mars (23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds for Earth; 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22.6 seconds for Mars). I also took issue with the astronomer royal on his assertion that the tails of the comets are so thin that the pressure of light causes their repulsion: The pressure of light, ten thousand times weaker than the sun's attraction .. . cannot be made responsible for the velocities with which a cometary tail, as a rigid rod, makes its sweep in perihelion subject to some strong repulsive force which drives the matter composing the tail away from the sun with enormously high ...
447. On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... certain day of the year - and this celestial appearance was supposed to have been the goddess herself - which was to plunge from the heights of Lebanon into the river Adonis (or, according to others, into the Lake el-Jammuneh), and would thereby initiate the celebration in honor of Attart. At the time of the service, a light like a torch(36) or a fireball was to have been seen in the sanctuary.(37) This report is clearly an indication of a periodically appearing astral light apparition. And this could only have been a comet, identified with the goddess, since meteors are not periodically returning heavenly objects. In the time of Mithridates ...
448. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas [Journals] [Kronos]
... beliefs are not open to scientific discission . . ." would later implicitly contradict his position as examination of the continuing Velikovsky Affair, with particular attention to the conduct of the 1974 A.A .A .S . symposium, amply demonstrates. The continuing refusal of scientists to subject their underlying assumptions to "scientific discussion" in the light of the challenge represented by Velikovsky's work adds a measure of "religious belief" to scientific enterprise. Fortunately, but with little effect so far, not all scientists are blind to the vulnerability of their edifice. Norman Hackerman, president of Rice University, broached this exposure when he concluded a guest editorial in Science with the following statement ...
449. Introgenesis (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... which had previously lived only within the sculptor's imagination, but at the same time the stone resists the changing of its shape and forces the sculptor to modify his vision; and the physical exertion of the sculptor affects the bones and muscles of his body. A scene assimilates the seer by forming his vision, just as the looker assimilates the light and makes it his own. There is a constant competition between parents within their progeny, each being trying to assimilate the other. "The characteristic qualities of both find themselves locked in embrace within the new being". (7 ) The theory of introgenesis, then, provides psychotherapy with a conceptual tool for making some of the ...
450. "Extra-Scientific" Dimensions of Science [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Velikovsky's views by mainstream science. Nevertheless, we should not make the mistake of seeing the rejection of those ideas as only an "internal" or "strictly scientific" matter. Rather, what is being symbolically exorcised is an entire world view - one which, ironically, neither Velikovsky nor his most articulate supporters necessarily embrace. In this light, Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism should not be viewed simply as competing scientific theories, but rather as more sweeping perspectives with a host of "extra-scientific" implications [3 ]. Academic scientists, I would argue, tend to endorse one of these frameworks while almost reflexively rejecting anything which smacks of the other - including Velikovsky's thinking. Perhaps most ...
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