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181 pages of results. 651. Sagan vs. Sagan [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VI No. 3 (Spring 1981) Home | Issue Contents Sagan vs. Sagan Shulamit Kogan Editor's note: This article is an expanded and modified version of a letter that first appeared in Physics Today (Sept. 1980), pp. 97-98.- LMG When Carl Sagan presented his paper "An Analysis of Worlds in Collision" at the AAAS Annual Meeting of 1974, he claimed to have calculated odds of 1023 to one (later changed to 1027 to one*) against the planetary encounters described in Worlds in Collision. These odds were widely quoted and publicized in the scientific and general press. However, scientists who may have wanted ...
652. Velikovsky and the Decline of Medieval Cosmology [Articles]
... , so all you have to do is to picture the consequences of a snowball, anything between 1 km and 10 km diameter, hitting the Earth at a velocity of something like 25 km/sec. Now it may be unimaginable, but it actually is perfectly calculable. All you've got to do is to appeal to the laws of physics and you can discover exactly what happens when one of these things hits the Earth and it's a great bang! I don't want to elaborate the consequences, but within recent years many scientists have got interested in the real possibility that major extinctions that occur in the history of the Earth are actually due to impacting missiles. For example the ...
653. A Comprehensive Theory on Aging, Gigantism and Longevity [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... inquiry, regarding them as beneath the dignity of pure science.4 An analysis of Chinese science furnishes another example. In his book The Grand Titrationthe eminent historian of China, Joseph Needham, gives a rather extensive account of its technology. It is peculiar, however, that the Chinese never conceived of an organized system of laws that describe physical reality. In explanation of this observation Needham points out: The ancient Taoist thinkers, profound and inspired though they were, failed, perhaps because of their intense mistrust of the powers of reason and logic to develop anything resembling the ideas ofLawsof Nature. . . . it would perhaps not be going too far to say that this was ...
654. Of the Moon and Mars, Part 2 [Journals] [Pensee]
... . Shoemaker et al. (81) give us this description of conditions just outside the rim of the crater: "The exterior flank of the rim . . . . comprises a belt of terrain 80 to 100 km wide that differs from the surrounding highland terrain in , topography, albedo, radar reflectivity, thermal characteristics, and other physical properties. This belt is underlain by a complex sequence of rim deposits. They are divisible, on the basis of both topography and albedo, into distinct geologic facies, which form a series of three concentric rings around the crater . . . "The inner ring [which] extends from the crest of the crater rim a distance ...
655. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... , its parallax of 0'.095, obtained from Elkin's observations, indicates a distance from our system of 34 ¼ light years; and, if this be correct, the star emits 250 times as much light as our sun. Its spectrum resembles that of the latter; indeed spectroscopists say that Capella is virtually identical with the sun in physical constitution, and furnishes the model spectrum of the Solar type, 46 yellow in tinge and ruled throughout with innumerable fine dark lines. Vogel thinks it receding from our system at the rate of 25M miles a second. It is the most northern of all the 1st-magnitude stars, rising in the latitude of New York City at sunset about ...
656. Sagan's "Ten Plagues" [Journals] [Kronos]
... in quick succession its birth and expulsion under violent conditions .. . [and] the core of the planet Venus must still be hot.. ." Still pursuing, like Motz, the irrelevant "volcanic-eruption" hypothesis and falsely ascribing it to Velikovsky, Sagan argues that Venus should have been blown to bits in accordance with "comminution Physics." After inserting another untruth to the effect that Velikovsky lays the destruction of Sennacherib's army to a swarm of boulders travelling with Mars, Sagan goes on and on about the afterbirth matter that should be in space, and insists: Even now on Earth "bombardment by objects which can make craters a mile or so across should be ...
... proved right a number of times and there has been an unwillingness to give him credit for it." But "many of the things that are right in Velikovsky are not original," Carl Sagan insisted. "Others of his forecasts are so generally stated that they are susceptible to a whole gamut of interpretations- and others just flatly contradict physical laws." The San Francisco Examiner on February 25 reported that "Velikovsky, Gell-Mann, Seaborg, Sagan, Margaret Mead- the brightest stars in the science galaxy- are in town this week" for the 140th annual AAAS meeting. The day before, Velikovsky and Michelson shared a news conference with paleologist Richard Leakey. Velikovsky spent most of ...
658. Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by recognising that it was founded not just on the empiricist desire to use only observable causes but also on a particular assumption about the relationship between God and nature. Hutton's theory has a deist rather than a Christian basis: it depends on a God who designs the world but who does not impose a sequence of events on its moral or physical history. ' [3 : p. 48] As for Cuvier, long derided for his opposition to evolution and for seeing evidence in the geology of the Paris basin for a series of catastrophes (which he called revolutions'), the eminent evolutionary biologist, Ernst Mayr, had this to say in his major historical work, ...
659. For the Record. . . [Journals] [Kronos]
... Cosmic rays. . . arriving from outside the earth, are very strong per particle, averaging several billions of electron volts and sometimes carrying a potential of a hundred billion electron volts. . . it is conceivable that, where a cosmic ray or charge hits a gene of germ plasma, a biological mutation takes place, comparable to the physical transmutation of the elements. After all, the genes, like any proteins, are biochemical compounds composed of carbon, nitrogen, and a few other elements. Should a somatic chromosome be hit by a powerful charge, it might at worst cause disorganized growth and be the origin of a neoplasma; but if the genes of the germ ...
660. The Goddess of the Stones and the Charged Cosmic Body [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1991 No 2 (Jan 1992) Home | Issue Contents The Goddess of the Stones and the Charged Cosmic Body by Eric Crew The Goddess of the Stones: The Language of the Megaliths, by G.T . Meaden (Souvenir Press, 1991) Archaeological remains appear to relate to striking physical phenomena, giving rise to activities of ancient peoples based on supernatural beliefs. This article examines the merits of two very different hypotheses concerning ubiquitous rock carvings; one based on meteorological processes and the other on an event in astronomy. Both may be applicable; time will tell. An account of the views relating to the astronomical matters, giving ...
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