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220 pages of results. 521. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... model, in the jargon of avant-garde statistics, the man/material takes a random walk. ' The random walk signifies that for control purposes (including predictive and tactical behaviour) there is no pattern except randomness. Only behaviours of a low level of typicality can be discovered, and these are too weak to determine directions. In the light of this theory, the Galileo case reads understandably. One cannot escape the feeling that the treatment afforded Galileo was produced by a host of non-rational, inconsistent incidents and intrigues leading up to his condemnation. A hierarchical or power system was at work, but its instrumental rationality was inept. The Church did not behave as a fully-aware, ...
522. Chapter II: The Events [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... Venus had its first major encounter with the earth about 1450 BC. The results of this encounter were recorded by many ancient cultures, but these events are most noted for being the plagues associated with the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt The first physical evidence was a reddish material falling through the atmosphere. RED Rayleigh showed that practically all the light seen in a clear blue sky is a result of scattering by the molecules of air. If it were not for the atmosphere, the sky would look black. However, as the amount of the atmosphere increases, the scattering removes the blue rays from the direct beam more effectively than the red. At sunset the light travels further ...
523. Chapter IX: Other Similar Shrines Elsewhere [Books]
... is concerned- for that is present while it too often is lacking in such productions- but in neither series is it stated whether N. means true or magnetic north. Both observers noted a well-marked temple facing N.E and also an "observatory." About the temple there can be no mistake, for the fair-way of the light to it is carefully preserved, and there is a flight of wide steps on the northeast side of it. Place gives the orientation 37 N. of E. in one plan and 39 in another. Botta and Flandin give 31 ½ in one plan and 32 in another! Now, the change in the magnetic variation between 1849 ...
524. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... impact. Warren summarized this objection as follows: "The main argument against a Mars-SNC connection has always been that ejection off a planet is expected to entail extremely high shock pressures. Yet these meteorites, which are up to 40 kg in mass, show only low to moderate degrees of shock." According to Dodd, the finding of lightly shocked lunar meteorites in Antarctica alleviates-but does not entirely remove- the objection that meteorites could make their way from Mars to Earth: "The Antarctic finds indicate that recognizable meteoritic material can make its way from the moon to the Earth, but they do not prove that virtually unshocked samples could make a longer trip from a bigger body. ...
525. Newton And Historical Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... the future if they had, in fact, worked to this effect in the past. It was, as we have seen, an accepted opinion among the astronomers of Newton's time that the historical records of the ancients preserved memories of worldwide cataclysms, and that their cause could be traced to the actions of comets. It is in the light of Newton's preoccupation with the role of comets that one must understand his concern with historical studies; these included a complete theory of the origin of civilization, a theory about how mythology should be interpreted, and a radical revision of accepted ancient chronology. On these topics he became engaged in an intense polemic with certain French scholars, and ...
526. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... reply. What Slabinski actually does is to calculate the torque impulse required to invert the body and its angular momentum (i .e . inversion by forced precession). This reverses the spin in inertial space, so it is no surprise that his answer is the same as that required for a spin reversal. It also casts an interesting light on remarks by Ellenberger (2 ) that Slabinski had shown calculations proving that spin reversal requires a torque impulse 2/p times that for a 180 degree axial tilt, since these two motions are dynamically identical. It may be significant that those calculations have not been published. Based on the foregoing, I submit that Ellenberger is under ...
527. Radiocarbon Dating The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... it fits all the facts; but actually its rightness derives solely from the lack of rival explanations."4 Stephen Jay Gould explains why and how experimental results that give negative results to established theory is handled to make the established theory appear to be right compared to any rival explanation. "The great bulk of scientific work never sees the light of a published day... Truly false starts are deposited in circular files-fair enough. But experiments carried forth and leading to negative results end up, all too often, unpublished in manila folders within steel-drawer files, known only to those who did the work and quickly forgotten even by them. We all know that thousands of novels ...
528. Condensation. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... fallen as snow in latitudes of temperate climates. This sequence of heat and cold must have taken place in quick succession. A precipitate drop in temperature and a rapid condensation of vapours could have followed from the screening effect of clouds of dust. Dust of either volcanic or meteoric origin, by enveloping the earth, could have impaired the solar light and warmth reaching the lower atmosphere. The dust particles ejected by erupting volcanoes have been observed to float in the sky around the globe for many months. So, after the eruption of Krakatoa in Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in 1883, dust particles suspended in the atmosphere continued for over a year to act as a screen around ...
... and a multitude of smaller sub-centres, the proto-planets. There seems to be no apparent reason why these proto-planets should have been arranged in any order; it is much more likely that they were arranged indiscriminately as to size. A certain amount of material, chiefly hydrogen and oxygen, did not immediately become gathered into accretions, because of its lightness, but filled interplanetary space in its combination, water, as steam, and eventually, under the influence of the cold of universal space, as ice crystals. In time part of these ice crystals became accreted into ice bolides, and part of the ice dust was gathered by the proto-planets revolving in ice. It played an important ...
530. Velikovsky's Dreamwork [Journals] [Aeon]
... The article was rather widely circulated, appearing in Austrian, American, and British journals within a two-year span. Curiously, though, Velikovsky never made any effort to apply any of his theoretic works of the 1930s to his later catastrophism, despite their obvious relevance. One unpublished paper, although not concerned with dreamwork, is quite interesting in light of Velikovsky's later assumptions about the nature of mythological motifs. After reviewing a standard test of witnesses' memories- a hold-up or some other dramatic event is staged in the lecture hall and then members of the audience are polled as to what they saw- Velikovsky noted that such a demonstration only shows that the elements of light, surprise ...
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