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181 pages of results. 491. Formation of Chondritic Meteorites and the Solar System [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1988 (Vol X) Home | Issue Contents Formation of Chondritic Meteorites and the Solar System by Wal Thornhill Wal Thornhill is an Australian, aged 46, currently working in London for the Australian Government. The holder of a degree in Physics at Melbourne University, he has had a lifelong interest in astronomy and Velikovsky's theories. The Talk he gave at the AGM of the Society in April 1988 was based upon this article: an earlier version of this paper was also presented at the 13th National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers in Sydney during Easter 1988. It is the thunderbolt that steers the Universe' - Heraclitus, c.500 BC ...
... few thousand years, errant planets have nearly destroyed life on Earth. Though his book, Worlds in Collision, was highly successful commercially (becoming a number-one best seller in 1950), Velikovsky was quickly repudiated en masse by accredited astronomers, physicists, historians and other specialists. His claims, it was said, violated the self-evident principles of physics and astronomy-and most everything we had come to know about our Earth and the solar system. In sweeping terms, Vehkovksy appeared to cast aside the most treasured assumptions of the scientific age. And worst of all, he drew the better part of his testimony from early mythical and religious texts-an outlandish reservoir of "evidence" in the opinion ...
493. Beneath Bauer [Books]
... and theories may need revision at some time and which others will never' need revision . . . . " (87) What is Bauer saying? That each consensus knows in advance (and absolutely) just when new ideas or revisions will appear (not to mention where new ideas will "never" appear)? Did everyone in physics in 1899 know not only what Planck would say in 1900, but even when he would say it? We must wonder how this astonishing prescience occurs in the same way in every discipline. Also, Bauer does not tell us how this astonishing ability functions, he merely asserts it in unquantified language. (We wonder, for instance ...
494. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 4) [Journals] [Kronos]
... since every hypothesis always leaves some loose ends (some observations which have not been shown either to be consistent or inconsistent with the hypothesis), we must always come back to a subjective judgment as to which hypothesis gives the more satisfactory description of the real world.... The myth is that science, especially a mature science like physics, is in the business of proving things. Thus laymen and senators expect cut and dried answers (from the "one-armed scientist" who doesn't say "on the other hand ") . In physics, just as much as in earth science, the frontiers involve competing hypotheses, inconclusive data, and interpretations at the margin of uncertainty ...
495. Cuban Prehistory [Journals] [Kronos]
... the Cuban aborigines ceased to exist within the first century after the Spanish conquest. The greatest monument to them is poignantly negative: La Historia de la Destrucción de las Indias, by Father Bartolomé de las Casas- an impassioned denunciation of the pitiless extermination of the natives of the Antilles by the newcomers from the Iberian peninsula. The tasks of physical labor fell to black men imported from West Africa and, somewhat later, to waves of immigrants from the Spanish motherland, notably Galicia and the Canary Islands. Today, most standard references show Cuba as a country of whites, blacks, and their varying mixtures. The Indians have virtually disappeared in the modern population, as many educated ...
496. Radiocarbon Dating and Egyptian Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... carbon (C12) but there is a small proportion of radioactive carbon - C14 which, of course, is chemically exactly the same as C12 and takes the same part in biological processes. This carbon-14 - radioactive, unstable carbon - is formed in the upper atmosphere by the bombardment of cosmic rays. (Don't ask me about the atomic physics of this: all I know is that it happens.) Once created, it drifts down and mixes in with the other components of the air, maintaining (in theory) a constant proportion of radioactive carbon among the "dead" carbon in the air; and this standard proportion of C14 to C12, of course, is ...
497. San Francisco, February 25, 1974 [Journals] [Pensee]
... Velikovsky Reconsidered VII" Home | Issue Contents San Francisco, February 25, 1974 Today we are going to consider a set of ideas that have at their core a completely unconventional picture of the planetary system.... Most scientists would say that this picture is totally impossible, because it violates many of the most firmly established principles of physics. To this Dr. Velikovsky would reply that there is overwhelming evidence that these events really did occur, and that if they cause difficulty for the scientists, it is up to the scientists to resolve their own problems. No one who is involved in the organization of this symposium believes that Dr. Velikovsky's ideas are correct. Yet ...
498. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the ideas put forward in Mankind in Amnesia are correct, such an association is far from coincidental, for the now peaceful starry sky has in the past been the stage for awesome cosmic events and the source of colossal destructions. Such phenomena, occurring throughout the development of the human species, must have had the most profound effects on the physical evolution of the brain, the conceptual and perceptual processes which operate within it and the consequent social structures and activities which proceed from these. Though, sadly, Velikovsky did not live to complete the book himself, it contains the abundance of provocative ideas we would expect from him (and which we hope to explore in future issues of ...
499. The Scientific Reception System [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the blind opposition to new science, and as insurance that it can no longer happen in our secular and non-magical age, offers the assertion that when at first, ideas are rejected, they may return with additional proof for admission and will be cordially re-examined. On December 21, 1962, Prof. V. Bargmann of the Department of Physics of Princeton University and Prof. Lloyd Motz of the Department of Astronomy of Columbia University published a letter in Science magazine claiming Velikovsky's priority of prediction of the hot surface temperature of Venus, of the existence of the magnetosphere around the Earth, and of the radio noises emanating from Jupiter. We quote from their letter: On 14 October ...
500. Myths of the Cataclysm Caused by the Breakdown of a Former Satellite (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... or two faces kissing, or else a crayfish with very big claws, or a long-eared rabbit. The whole of this heavenly phenomenon was brilliantly lighted, whites and yellows pre-denominating. The chief impressions described in the first myth are all optic ones, as is to be expected, since the cataclysm, with its acoustic and, chiefly, physical impressions, has not yet started. For that reason I, suggest that the passages which refer to powerful acoustic impressions, the rage and roar of the cataclysm (lob) and the surge of the waters of the deluge (15b), as well as the hint at the world-wide destruction (18c) which is about to begin ...
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