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220 pages of results. 551. Not So Brown Dwarf Stars [Journals] [Aeon]
... Dwarf Stars Tania ta Maria So-called brown dwarf stars are now presented as among the most numerous objects in the Universe, definitely in our Galaxy. They seem to fill the space between what are termed real stars in great profusion. Theorized to be not massive enough to shine through thermonuclear fueling, these stars are still believed to shed some feeble light and, perhaps, enough heat to generate and sustain life around any planets that might be orbiting around them. Like some of their more massive kin, some brown dwarfs have even recently been claimed to possess circumstellar disks in which it has long been posited that planets form through accretion. Astrophysicists, of course, have long known that ...
552. Evolution from Space [Articles]
... Hoyle and myself, the comets are crucially important to our thinking on these matters because they contain the ancestors of meteorites and they contain in our view the incipient life of the Solar System. At the present time we know that some 100 billion or so cometary objects envelop the Solar System at a distance of about 1/10 of a light year from the Sun, there is an enormous halo of comets almost completely spherical in shape that sits around the Sun at a fairly great distance. Gravitational effects cause several of these comets each year to become deflected into orbits that take them into the inner regions of the Solar System, effectively showing up as new comets. The next ...
553. Making Sense of Astronomy and Geology by Dirk Bontes (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Other chapters explain the physical and orbital characteristics of planets and moons; discuss galaxies, quasars, supernovae and planetary nebulae, and elucidate how they were formed; offer novel explanations for warped galactic discs, nascent solar systems, polar ring galaxies, and the structures of spiral galaxies; introduce a new redshift mechanism in which the wavelength of light lengthens as it moves away from its source, contrary to General Relativity; examine phenomena explained by General Relativity and show them to be explicable by more conventional theories; and argue that triads' of charged particles can be accelerated by lines of magnetic force. The chapters on geology show that Mars was dealt a mortal blow by a pair ...
554. Some Additional Comments On Tektites [Journals] [Kronos]
... , directed less at Cardona than at most of the other scientists who have addressed themselves to the tektite puzzle over the past several decades, concerns a tendency to persist in either-or attitudes about tektite sources: Either the tektites originated on the Moon; or they originated on the Earth. In terms of the electrical fusion hypothesis, and in the light of Velikovsky's disclosures that both the Moon and the Earth were involved in discharges with intruding planetary bodies, there would appear to be no reason to insist that tektites now found on Earth could not have derived from both bodies (or, indeed, in some measure from Venus and Mars as well). O'Keefe's claim to have found tektite ...
555. The Science of Catastrophism [Articles]
... account for the wealth of data (and there is much) which seems to indicate that, at more than one time in the geologically recent past, immense earthly catastrophes did occur. From the evidence, it seems that at different times the Earth was seared and scarred and rent and overturned, and the sky was filled with darkness and light, blazing heat and choking dust, rains of fire and overwhelming thunder, unstoppable, unpredictable and colossal. We who are catastrophists believe three general things: that events like these did probably occur, that our ancestors saw, remembered and recorded them in myth, religion, folklore and art, and that we the human race are as ...
556. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the Solar System has been stable since their construction, which is used to justify Harlow Shapley's decision "to prevent by all possible means the spread of Velikovsky's ideas until such time as admissible evidence on the subject might be presented". Amongst Wilson's assumptions is the notion that the ancient Egyptians had access to an accurate value for the velocity of light; also that the pyramids of the Giza complex represent the planets Mercury, Venus and Earth (he takes the areas of the pyramid bases to be in relation to the volumes of these planets). Johnson's refutation indicates that Wilson's values for both the bases of the pyramids and the volumes of the planets are matters of some dispute, ...
557. The Dawnseekers: the First History of American Paleontology by Robert West Howard [Journals] [Kronos]
... consider the implications of new facts, and modify established conceptual frameworks. In the last century, this was demonstrated in the academic and social approach to the theory of evolution in general, and the validity of the geological and paleontological records in particular. In this century, one is now asked to rethink the traditional interpretation of the dinosaurs in light of a new critical analysis of the fossil evidence and its implications. As such, there is no room for blind closure or dogmatism in science. Since naturalists are human beings, it is not surprising that personal beliefs and vested interests have, at times, both limited and conditioned scientific investigations and resulting interpretations. It is thus refreshing ...
558. Books by Jerry L. Ziegler [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/ziegler/Indra Girt by Maruts: This book uses the Rig Veda to demonstrate the nature of earlier times when the divine manifested through electrical phenomena at ancient rites. As God the Father the divine emanated in St. Elmo's fire on the mountain tops. As the Holy Ghost the divine light shown in the Ark of Covenant in the temples below in the cities. As both these forms of the divine failed at the end of the earlier era the priesthoods needed a Saviour which they found in the Son. 277 pages, 5 x 8", paper bound. (C ) 1994. $10. Prologue to a ...
559. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... stars (the Great Bear or the Plough constellation) and Norse origins, a Celtic pre-Christian deity and so on. Could a link exist via thur with Thor and Taurus? Driving home from Reading in the early hours of the morning I was half listening to the car radio but my attention was caught when the presenter started to talk about light. Pure light is apparently white. Light contains all the colours of the spectrum but blue is the most easily dispersed of these colours which is why the sky appears to be blue. White light minus its blue component is yellow, the colour of the sun, sunbeams etc. Hence a white goddess simply cannot be solar but must ...
560. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... BC; others are related to the Ainu and Ryukyuan descendants of the Jomons, though their two branches seem to have separated 12,000 years ago (i .e ., when they reached Japan). The First Americans It is worth reconsidering the TV documentary Ancient Voices: The Hunt for the First Americans [2 ] in the light of recent correspondence. David Eccott [3 ] is undoubtedly correct to point out that African Negritos were an important component of South Chinese populations' and that a distinct pattern in mitochondrial DNA (mcDNA) from eastern Africa and Asia continues towards the Pacific Islands'. However, the question is whether this pattern reached the Americas and Sykes ...
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