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92 pages of results. 401. Halton Arp: A Modern-Day Galileo [Journals] [Aeon]
... really know. In Ptolemy's time, geocentric astronomers searched the heavens for perfect circles. Since the days of Galileo and Newton, gravitational astronomers search for homogeneous spheres. But the immensely improved observations of the 20th century have not produced the expected spheres. On every scale, at every wavelength, we're seeing a Universe composed of rotating disks and polar jets. Arp's work hints at this shape on the supergalactic scale and demonstrates it plainly on the galactic scale, as seen in these images of galaxies and galactic jets. This bipolar shape was a spectacular surprise on the smaller scale of supernova remnants. Textbooks as recent as when I was an astronomy student still claimed that a "closer ...
402. Reconciling Celestial Mechanics and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... then, that space potentials in such regions are vastly greater, in the negative sense, than they are close to the sun, as the discharge hypothesis requires, any long-period comet could be expected to acquire local space potential quite readily during its long sojourn far from the sun. Quite possibly, too, its body materials would become electrically polarized in response to the buildup of charge on its surface. Consider next what would happen to this charged, electrically polarized body as its orbit brings it with ever increasing speed back toward the sun. By the time it reaches the orbit of Jupiter, solar-wind protons will have stripped away its superficial blanket of negative charge. No longer does ...
403. Forum [Journals] [Pensee]
... . I had previously been inclined to believe that Velikovsky was a brilliant eccentric who had been shabbily treated by the scientific establishment; but, as a result of reading your first two numbers on Velikovsky, I now fear that he is probably right in his main contentions. It is very important that attitudes on this matter should not be further polarized. That the scientific establishment would appear to be largely responsible for the present atmosphere of bitterness and recrimination does not imply that emotional reaction by Velikovskians, however understandable, is good policy either from the immediate practical point of view or in the ultimate interests of truth. However, the members of the scientific establishment concerned- to mention no names- ...
404. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... was trying to shorten time whereas Hancock is trying to lengthen it. John Crowe said Hancock's thesis involves astronomical retro-dating to give the date of around 12/11,000 BC but changes in the earth's pole positions, orbit or length of day would render this inaccurate. Hancock is clearly a catastrophist but by implication he does not believe the polar axis has shifted significantly in the last 13,000 years. However Charles Hapgood, whom he quotes extensively, believed (like Velikovsky) that the pole positions had shifted in the relatively recent past. Perhaps neither Hancock nor his researchers read Worlds in Collision but from some of the phrases he uses this seems unlikely. David Roth said ...
405. Forum: In Defence of the Saturn Theory C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... described as standing atop the same mountain or as resting within the crescent of Sin? Why was the Venus-star routinely set upon the disc of Shamash? [39] Why was Mars called the Gatekeeper' of the sun and specially associated with the mountain of sunrise/sunset? How are we to account for Mars' intimate relation to the polar axis? (Peter has read my book, so he should know the answers!) Literally hundreds of mythical motifs have been analysed by the Saturnists, all pointing to the same unique configuration in the sky. By ignoring the vast body of traditions surrounding Venus and Mars and electing to focus his critique on a relative handful of mythical ...
406. The Periodic Cyclicism Of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Tyr in the ancient Germanic languages. At such close flybys, the major features of the Earth's physical geography would have been sculpted by Mars during close Mars flybys. These included: 1. Crustal deformation and mountain systems. 2. Oceanic tides of semi-continental dimensions. 3. Sudden relocations of the ancient spin axis. 4. Ancient paleomagnetic polarity reversals. 5. Intense subcrustal friction, the genesis of the mountain ranges. 6. The dynamo for the Earth's geomagnetic field. 78 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. V, No. 1 7. The alluvium for the Earth's largest alluvial plain, the Indo-Gangetic, 600,000 sq. mi. d. 8. The outflowing magma for ...
407. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that a comet, asteroid or giant meteorite would have slammed into the Earth, triggering off a complex series of events which ultimately upset the motion of metals deep in Earth's core. This would in turn have upset the planetary dynamo, and hence the magnetic reversal. Now where have we seen a similar type of theory before? A (polar) opposite view is taken by Prof. J.A .Jacobs, writing in NATURE. He argues that impact events could have little effect on the Earth's magnetic field if this derives from a core-dynamo action. Although he admits there is no consensus on what drives the motions of liquids in Earth's core, he indicates that irregularities in ...
408. Thoth Vol I, No. 10: April 22, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... then, that space potentials in such regions are vastly greater, in the negative sense, than they are close to the sun, as the discharge hypothesis requires, any long-period comet could be expected to acquire local space potential quite readily during its long sojourn far from the sun. Quite possibly, too, its body materials would become electrically polarized in response to the buildup of charge on its surface. Consider next what would happen to this charged, electrically polarized body as its orbit brings it with ever increasing speed back toward the sun. By the time it reaches the orbit of Jupiter, solar-wind protons will have stripped away its superficial blanket of negative charge. No longer does ...
409. Thoth Vol I, No. 22: August 31, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... similar to the weather patterns in the Earth's atmosphere," said Dr. Jesper Schou of Stanford. "Moreover, in what is a completely new discovery, we have found a jet-like flow near the poles. This flow is totally inside the Sun. It is completely unexpected, and cannot be seen at the surface." "These polar streams are on a small scale, compared to the whole Sun, but they are still immense compared to atmospheric jet streams on the Earth," added Dr. Philip Scherrer, the SOI principal investigator at Stanford. "Ringing the Sun at about 75 degrees latitude, they consist of flattened oval regions about 17,000 miles across ...
410. Thoth Vol IV, No 13: Aug 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... of archetypal themes of myth. But there is, at root, a unifying thread, which I called the "One Story Told Around the World." The statement is indeed preposterous, but of this truth I no longer have any doubt. All of humanity experienced the same events. I believe that a series of snapshots of the polar configuration, together with animations illustrating the seamless connections between the different phases, will do the most to make the outrageous claims believable. It will also lend enough clarity and specificity for readers to see how easily the model will be disproved if our claims are fundamentally false. For a few weeks now I've been musing over the ways to ...
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