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181 pages of results. 701. The Reflective Canopy Model and the Mytho-historical Record [Journals] [Aeon]
... man venerated as his god? 3. The Spherical Canopy Isaac Newton Vail (1840-1912). The originator of the reflective canopy theory In my evaluation of Zysman's model at the seminar mentioned above, a certain amount of disappointment was registered by those in attendance- including, to my surprise, Zysman himself- for my neglect in criticizing the physical feasibility of the formation of such a canopy and the manner in which it could have been sustained. There were various reasons behind my glossing over of the subject, not the least of which was my own deficiency in matters of physics which had cautioned me to steer clear of those areas in which my ignorance might show through. But ...
702. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... about the history of the solar system and planet Earth. It was interesting to learn that prior to the explosive controversy, many scholars around the world held Velikovsky in high esteem. He had been a colleague of Albert Einstein. He was a respected psychoanalyst, and was the founder and editor of the scholarly journal, Scriptas Universitatis, the physics section being edited by Einstein. But Velikovsky's academic accreditation would not redeem him when it came to challenging the pillars of modern science. Worlds in Collision In Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky drew on widespread myths and images of the planet Venus, all suggesting that in earlier times Venus was anything but a settled planet. He claimed that Venus ...
703. The Greenland Ice Cores [Journals] [Kronos]
... in the next issue of KRONOS. TAKING IT FROM THE TOP A relatively recent development in geological studies is the drilling and extraction of deep cores from glaciers and from polar ice sheets. Since the cores seem to reflect annual deposits of snow that were eventually compacted into ice, there is the hope that ice cores can provide all sorts of physical and chemical evidence about past conditions. There is also the hope that such conditions might, at least ideally, be dated to the very year. The identifications of these individual years are deemed feasible, especially for the upper part of the ice core, because of seasonally-varying proportions of oxygen-18 in the ice, as well as seasonally-varying amounts ...
704. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... However, I do feel that one phenomenon which has long been known but never (so far as I know) seriously investigated is that of the earth's radial electric field (see for example Juergens' article in Pensée II, and associated references). In fact, though the fountain-pen-rubbed-on-sleeve was traditionally one of the starting points of a school physics course (reflecting, whether intentionally or not, the historical primacy of this phenomenon), the study of electrostatics has been much neglected. Like the gold-leaf electroscope itself, it has remained a historical curiosity - and one can easily see why. Not only are electrodynamic effects, involving current flow and power transfer, of greater practical value ...
705. On the Convection of Electric Charge by the Rotating Earth [Journals] [Kronos]
... usual," but the residual positive charge on the planet would be generating a reversed geomagnetic field. The Talmudic tradition credits another disturbance, in the time of Hezekiah, with correcting the day-shortening that occurred when Ahaz was buried. On the later occasion a day was prolonged, and sunset was delayed. But we need not conclude that a physical regime instituted on the first occasion lasted for many years. Normal electrical conditions and normal geomagnetic polarity were probably restored rather quickly after the first event. The Hezekiah event was in all likelihood a temporary slowdown due to an increase in negative charge. The date of the Ahaz event, late in the eighth century, fits well with the ...
706. The Milankovitch Theory of the Ice Ages [Journals] [Kronos]
... ) and James Croll (1864 and 1875). Simon Newcomb (1876) severely criticized Croll for paying insufficient attention to the quantitative aspects of insolation, and especially the details of heat transfer. It was not until nearly half a century later that the Serbian scientist Milutin Milankovitch (1879-1958, Professor of Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, and Theoretical Physics at the University of Belgrade) developed a mathematical model that went into quantitative detail about the entire process, including the effects of the cyclical changes in obliquity, which had been neglected by his predecessors. Quite properly, this sort of approach is now called the Milankovitch theory of the ice ages. An important early publication of Milankovitch's on ...
707. Radiant Genesis [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER NINE Radiant Genesis The physical history of Solaria Binaria may be divided into three major periods according to the intensity of quantavolution occurring: a primary period of violent changes and rapid development, extending perhaps to a quarter of a million years; a secondary period of relative balance among the elements within the system, extending almost to the present; and a shorter tertiary period of system breakdown, when Super Uranus, the planets, the sac and plenum, and the electrical arc with its magnetic tube underwent abrupt transformations. A biosphere was generated during the primary period and produced its main ...
708. Origins: Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth, by James E. Strickling [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Crew now believes that, if an object was ejected from Jupiter and travelled through the Solar System as Velikovsky supposed, it was a much smaller body than Venus and its only link with that planet was that it eventually collided with it (see C&C Review 1997:1 , p. 58). Furthermore, there is no physical evidence of any catastrophe on the scale envisaged by Velikovsky during the time human beings have lived on the Earth. Localised catastrophes undoubtedly took place, some with significant effects but there was no global catastrophe. According to the evidence of the rocks, we have to go back to the end of the Cretaceous, when the only mammals around ...
709. Saxl's Pendulum Convection of Electric Charge Revisited [Journals] [Aeon]
... got in, it would not stay there without violating Gauss' law. Thus, the charge would end up on Earth's surface and, indeed, the mantle and crust are conductive enough to allow this. However the surface can hold only 1010 C and the 1959 Danjon effect requires 1014 C- 10,000 times as much as is physically possible.(15) Velikovskian rationalization seems to have a knack for ignoring clear-cut, practical, physical tests that disprove the tenets of Worlds in Collision. According to James Warwick, current thinking is that Danjon effect is due to solar irradiance in the ultraviolet expanding the atmosphere which increases the moment of inertia and slows the rotation. Juergens ...
710. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... (1 ) "Books written about the solar system before the advent of the space age could as well have been written in ' Latin or Greek, so dated do they appear to a contemporary reader." Zdenek Kopal - The Solar System (Oxford University Press, 1973) In my published books, notwithstanding often repeated allegations, no physical law is ever abrogated or "temporarily suspended"; what I offered in them is primarily a reconstruction of events from the historical past. Thus I did not set out to confront the existing views with a theory or hypothesis and to develop it into a competing system. My work is first a reconstruction, not a theory; it ...
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