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181 pages of results. 751. On the Orientation of Ancient Temples and Other Anomalies [Journals] [Aeon]
... the altar of the temple 194 cm from its proper location. This would not have been tolerated by the priesthood. If we assume that a maximum error of 10 cm would be tolerated, the orientation would be accurate to approximately 3 minutes of arc. After many years of field work, Kaufman(2 ), a member of the physics faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusalem whose hobby was archaeology, finally established the location of the first (Solomon's) and second (Herod s) temples and calculated the orientation of each. Both temples were built on the same spot, one set of foundations overlying the other with the same location for the holy of holies. In response ...
... not really flower in American soil until after 1946 and did not begin to gain widespread popularity there until the 1950's. The new art was a reflection of the awareness of the new complexity of the world- and of the new advances in psychology and technology. These advances became manifest not only in the subject material but, increasingly, in the physical materials used. Sculptors, for example, began molding industrial metals, glass, and plastics into new shapes and functions. Nevertheless, despite being a product of the very same forces that forged the political dialectic of the time, Modern Art esthetics were seemingly antithetical to the feelings and forces which spawned the McCarthyist movement. Instead of conformity ...
... the fact that they placed an obolus (about one and a half pence.) in the mouth of the corpse to pay surly old Charon's fee for ferrying them across the River of Death; and the realism of the belief in Britain also is demonstrated by various ancient paths and tracks supposedly trodden by the dead on their way to the physical Hades, these being identifiable by place-names and sometimes by local superstition. When we consider these beliefs so stubbornly held by past generations let us not forget that the Christian Church for long taught the like crude doctrine of Hades or Hell as a place of burning where the sinful were roasted until eternity (many preach it to this day) ...
754. Chapter 4 Scientific ? Radiocarbon Dating [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... of radiocarbon dating admitting to procedures that are deplorable, not only from a scientific but also from a 19 J. Gordon Ogden III, "The Use and Abuse of Radiocarbon Dating," Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 288 (1977) p. 172 20 ibid. 21 Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law [Cambridge MA 1965) p. 148 22 Thomas W. Stratford Jr, "How Old Is It?" Discovering Archaeology, vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan/Feb. 2000), p. 45 126 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. VI, Nos. 1, 2, 3 historical standpoint, then what we ...
755. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... and chemically active environment the Traps once were. 11) Atkinson exhibits both irony and chutzpah [= effrontery/cheek] in defending Velikovsky... by suggesting... Winter needs a quantitative appendix and denigrating... Winter's revolutionary ideas because they conflict with the status quo'. I have never believed or supported Velikovsky's bizarre physics/astronomy. I have not slandered Clube & Napier's ideas; I have legitimately criticised their poor exposition and evidence. How is a request for quantitative treatment a defence of Velikovsky? Ellenberger suggests that their papers (with others) in NRAS and QJRAS [Royal Astronomical Society papers - not widely available] should satisfy my quantitative doubts. ...
756. Scientific Dating Methods In Ruins [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ...technique to yield dates of certain dependability. Although it was hailed as the answer to the prehistorian's prayer when it was first announced, there has been increasing disillusion with the method because of chronological uncertainties (in some cases, absurdities) that would follow a strict adherence to publish C-14 dates. This is not to question the physical laws underlying the principle used or the accuracy of the counters now in operation around the world; the unsolved problem, instead, seems to lie in the difficulty of securing samples completely free from either older or younger adherent carbon. At least to the present, no kind or degree of chemical cleaning can guarantee one-age carbon, typical only ...
757. Geological Genesis [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , clumsy animals have been superseded by evidence that they were fast, active and probably warm-blooded. The weight which a column can support varies as the cube of its linear dimensions and therefore the heavier the animal, the proportionally shorter and thicker the limb bones. The dimensions of an elephant's limb bones are approaching the maximum limits of size which physical forces permit and are already tending towards disproportionate thickness. Yet dinosaurs were of such a degree of magnitude heavier, that the larger herbivorous sauropods were traditionally thought of as wallowing permanently in swamps to take the weight off their feet. However, there is evidence that they were completely terrestrial and the large, bipedal carnosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus ...
758. Homo Schizo -- the Catastrophic Evolution of Man [Articles]
... selection, they all must be accomplished by sudden, intense changes, by Quantavolutions, and we can put it in a proposition form, that Homo Sapiens must have been born amidst natural disasters, there is no other way of bringing about these causes, except by the disasters which must be traced originally to extra-terrestrial disasters, and mankind reflects physically and mentally the primordial disasters of his creation. They set up human operations as we know them. I have other propositions, I'll spend less time on them. In second place, humanisation occurred as a small physiological twist, to my opinion, and this twist, that's the secret of my theory of Homo Schizo, consists of ...
759. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... All that has happened is for the dogma to become fossilised! An excellent recent debate on mammoth extinctions can be found in Kronos VII:4 . But the prime target for Henbest's attack is Peter Warlow whose pole-shifting idea ". .. is the only one that can be taken at all seriously, because it is based on a sound physical foundation". What? Has Henbest not read Slabinski? Ah yes, he has, for later in the article he brings out Slabinski, like a rabbit out of a hat. So it is curious to read of a "sound physical foundation". His main attack is on Warlow's book, The Reversing Earth (1982) ...
760. Polymathics and Catastrophism: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Problems of Evolutionary Theory [Journals] [Kronos]
... by saying that speech-sounds and lexical forms - or, at most, sound-systems and grammatical structures - have changed. But, since 1957, Transformational linguists have preferred to formulate diachronic change primarily in terms of alteration of the laws that generate language rather than in terms of alteration of the surface features resulting from those laws.(3 ) A physical analog to this linguistic analysis would be the hypothesis that catastrophic occurrences of sufficient scope alter not only physical structures but also the laws in accordance with which physical structures are formed. Astrophysicists are already approaching such a view with regard to the description of light-imprisoning stars known as "black holes, " which, they say, distort not only ...
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