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... has never been a movement scientifically proved of an emigration from the south to the north, which refutes very considerably the long-held supposition that the ancestors of the Nordic peoples were originally placed in the land we now term Palestine. Sergi, Angelo Mosso, and other anthropologists, who pursue their investigations not by guesswork but by the scientific comparison of physical characteristics as revealed in thousands of tomb measurements, have stated definitely that there was never any emigration from Asia into Europe, whilst again we find Sir William Ridgeway, the learned authority on Greek antiquities, tracing the origin of the Hellenic peoples to the neighbourhood of the north and probably to the Baltic. (Early Age of Greece. ...
... rose in the cracks and almost filled them to their rims. The waters from the tide hill surged into the rifts, and a great struggle between the hot and the caret elements started. Great sheets of lava were extruded here and there, and huge volcanic cones were raised up along and near the rifts. It was lucky that for physical reasons not very much magma was available at the ovoid apex of the Earth, or a worldwide cataclysm would have happened instead of a continental catastrophe. Let us review what still remains of this terrific gash in our Earth's surface, after ages of isostatic compensation, of major volcanic activity, of obliteration through tectonic, and partly also of ...
663. Cosmic Catastrophism [Journals] [Aeon]
... speaks of these gods fighting on opposite sides during the Trojan War, the planets they represent must have been observed actually engaging in conflict. (60) But such a view contradicts almost everything learned over the past fifty or sixty years about the complex nature of mythology. (61) Some myths do arise as explanations for historical events or physical phenomena, but others provide answers for psychological or social problems. Still others describe the origin of and provide the justification for traditional cultic practices. Myths about deities like Mars, Venus, and Jupiter had a variety of origins. And different myths about a single god served a variety of purposes. The assumption that most, or even ...
664. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... 1975), pp. 227 and 264, who states that, "Carbon 14 dating has shown that Antarctica's ice is less than 6,000 years old. [Arthur] Holmes writes, Algal remains, dated at 6000 B.P . [before present] have been found on the latest terminal moraines. ' (Principles of Physical Geology, p. 718) This shows that Antarctica must have been sufficiently free from ice for green algae to grow 6,000 years ago." But how long ago was Antarctica last glaciated? Velikovsky's theory implies that it was rapidly reglaciated in historical times, but how to prove such a concept. Charles Hapgood in The Path ...
665. Chapter23_end
... To be sure, the planets are still neighbors: Mars, who is Era and Nergal, is only a few light-minutes away, Marduk-Jupiter about eight minutes, Saturn an hour. But they are all equally lost in cosmic space, their optical evidence, like that of ghosts, equally unseizable, equally potent or impotent in terms of present physical standards, equally and dreadfully present according to those other standards. Era is sternly reprimanded by Jupiter/Marduk for having sent his weapons forth to destroy what remained after the Flood (Ea once spoke in the same vein to Enlil after the earlier Flood) but Marduk saved seven wise ones (ummani) by causing them to descend to ...
666. The Genesis of a Symposium [Journals] [Pensee]
... said it was, to some extent, and that only individual members of the AAAS were responsible for the excesses against Velikovsky, not the AAAS itself. I asked whether the panel had been filled, but apparently at that time only Dr. Sagan was definite. However, King asked if there were any of whom I knew in the physical sciences, of some prominence, who were also familiar with Velikovsky's work .. . since the panel was to be made up from the "hard" sciences. It is evident that at that time- midsummer, 1973- the symposium was still scheduled to focus on a fairly limited field of inquiry: the nature and motions of the planets ...
667. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Articles]
... Indeterminacy Principle formulated by Heisenberg out of the experience of the effort to conduct observations of matter at the sub-atomic level. In its classical statement, it maintains that no quantum-mechanical system can simultaneously possess an exact position and an exact momentum. In its philosophical application, largely provided by Heisenberg himself, it implies that laws deduced from behavior in the physical world can never have objective authority over the actions of man, since this behavior will always remain part of a system in which man is present as observer and setting limits to what he can observe. Thus, though there is nothing to prevent totalitarian governments from continuing in progra mmes of murder and terror, their claim to justify these ...
668. Alexander and the Amazons: Ancient Belief and Modern Analysis [Journals] [Aeon]
... other writers, is as follows: Thalestris, queen of the Amazons, comes with her warriors to Alexander and asks him to mate with her. This mating spans a thirteen day period, after which Thalestris returns to her realm. The details then start to differ from the other accounts. In Diodorus' account, Thalestris is described in physical terms of strength and appearance. However, while it is simply stated that she is quite beautiful, her bravery is only described from the Amazons' own point of view. To the writer and, it is implied, to Alexander's army, it is the queen's physical appearance, and not her bravery, that is of first importance ...
669. Minds in Chaos [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to submit the book to three impartial censors and to abide the majority verdict of the three. Apparently the majority again voted thumbs up; the book was published on schedule. The identities of the last-minute censors were never officially revealed, but one of them, Prof. C. W. van der Merwe, Chairmen of the Department of Physics at New York University, later disclosed to John O'Neill that he had been enlisted by Macmillan and had been one of the two who voted in favour of publication. Meanwhile, the February 25, 1950, issue of Science News Letter, a publication then headed by Harlow Shapley, printed denunciation of Velikovsky's ideas by five authorities in as ...
670. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... glassy shards which are thought to be of the right size and composition to have been debris from the Santorini (There) eruption in the eastern Mediterranean. Halley, Another Surprise sources: NATURE 321, pp.259-366; NEW SCIENTIST 22.5 .86, p.30 There is an excellent Supplement in NATURE giving details of the physics, chemistry and geology of Halley's comet as deduced from the data from the Giotto probe (early data was given by us in C & C WORKSHOP 1986:1 , p.29; see also letters on pp.37-38). Among the surface features of Halley's comet are raised circles resembling craters. The craters have hollow slopes ...
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