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42 pages of results. 301. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... "The moon... is in full view behind Aphrodite, where it serves as the total center for the whole composition." Suhr associated a whole complex of attributes and functions with Aphrodite: the Moon directly, the shadow of the Moon (its cone), spinning, the vortex theme in myth, the emblem of the spiral, the dew and rain, Klotho, Hecate, Medusa, the omphalos (sacred navel of the world), rainfall (the dropping of threads upon the Earth), the turning of the vault of Heaven, the forming of thunderhead on her distaff with the help of Ares, lunar calendars. She was "worshiped as the ...
302. Abbreviations, Glossary and Bibliography [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , "Combination Spectra in Long-Period Variable Stars," Phil. Mag. 46 (sep.), pp 1123-31 (1958-1964), "Cosmic Electric Discharges," letters to Electronics and Power (Ins. El. Eng., J.): "Cosmic Electric Discharges," v. 4 (Dec. 1958) "Spiral Nebulae," v. 6 (sep. 1960) "Galactic Evolution and Cosmological Controversies," v. 7 (Jul. 1961) "The Energy Radiated by Radio Galaxies," v. 7 (Aug. 1961) "Cosmic Plasma Jets and Hyperthermal WindTunnels," v. 8 (Apr. 1962), pp ...
303. The Sun's Galactic Journey and Absolute Time [Books] [de Grazia books]
... have also divided the stars into populations according to their location within the Galaxy. Some striking results were obtained: 1. The most luminous and apparently hottest stars are found within gaseous clouds containing much cosmic dust. These stars are confined in clumps to a thin plate that forms the equator of the Galaxy. Similar stars define the highly visible spiral arms seen in other galaxies. 2. Bright, cooler stars like Sirius are located near the equator of the Galaxy but are not confined to the galactic arms. 3. The disc of the Galaxy is populated with moderately hot stars (with 5000 to 8000 K surface temperatures); these stars resemble the Sun and populate the arms ...
304. Cuneiform Astronomical Records and Celestial Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... been disputed whether Typhon was a comet or a planet. The passage reads: Some comets move like planets, but others remain stationary .. . A terrible comet was seen by the people of Ethiopia and Egypt, to which Typhon the king of that period gave his name. It had the nature of a fire, twisted like a spiral, but it was dismal in appearance. Rather than a comet it was some sort of conglomeration of fire. Occasionally both planets and comets spread out a coma. Wilhelm Gundel, a specialist in Hellenistic astromythology, in his review of Kugler's book sharply rebuked Kugler for not mentioning that all the texts similar to those examined by Kugler ascribed ...
305. Letters. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Evidence convinces me that Venus is a very old planet and was unlikely to have been ejected from Jupiter. However it is probable that a smaller incandescent charged body or stream of charged material (a proton storm) was ejected from Jupiter only a few thousand years ago at the site of the Great Red Spot. This matter would have spiralled in towards the Sun, slowly losing charge and causing many kinds of dynamical and electrical disturbances to the inner planets by near encounters. The idea that the Solar System' has recently undergone wide-spread rearrangement seems to me an idea that no sensible physicist can support. As for radio noises coming from Jupiter, I doubt this would have hastened ...
306. Solar System Studies [Journals] [Aeon]
... a small amount of free hydrogen. Such a planet could still be classified as terrestrial or a gas giant depending on whether most of its mass is of solid ice, silicate rock, metals and metal compounds or mainly of atmospheric gasses and low density liquids. The Solar System milieu is isolated. The Sun is well out along the Orion spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy-one of billions of galaxies in the known universe. Ambient space is nearly an absolute vacuum at about 2.7 K except for cosmic rays, a plasma of free electrons, a cross wind of hydrogen and helium molecules and ions and the Solar Wind of positively charged ions which is continuously accelerated away from ...
307. Pendulums and Sunspots [Journals] [Aeon]
... star are mainly ionized. The light [weight] ions are deflected by the magnetic field while the heavier ions penetrate deeper into the field and come closer to the star. During this approach a further ionization can take place whence the ions may be captured by the magnetic field. Being captured, these ions go into quasi-periodic orbits where they spiral along the magnetic field lines. The ions are reflected near the magnetic poles due to a mirror effect. A diffusion mechanism gradually transfers the ions from the magnetic field to the stellar surface around the magnetic poles. Our model successfully predicts the great enhancement of the rare Earth, the moderate enhancement of the iron group and silicon, and ...
308. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... Higgs particles to fudge-factor certain mass deficiencies, and 19 arbitrary constants to make everything come out right. Moreover, to add further confusion, these were in turn broken down into three separate families of quarks and leptons which were indistinguishable from one another. But still no gravity; or, when gravity was addressed, it would mathematically and nonsensically spiral off to some infinity or other. It wasn't until the early 1980s that physics started to overcome the aversion to higher dimensions and resurrected the 60-year-old Kaluza-Klein theory. Actually some clues were incipient in the late 1960s when the five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein model exhibited a certain freedom to impose symmetry on hyperspace, where Maxwell's field appeared out of Riemann metric space ...
309. The Paleo-Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... our existence, and our intellectual development. The more I learn, the more I am awed by how impossibly perfect Earth has been for our existence (at least for the past few thousand years) in the face of so many odds and factors, given the delicate nature of the biosphere. Our Sun and its planets linger between two spiral arms of the galaxy, a stable position, since it happens to be a rare star with a galactic co-rotational radius. If we were to be swept into one of these galactic arms, our Solar System would be in mayhem; I don't know how our spaceship would survive. Here on Earth, the carbonate-silicate cycle is a prerequisite ...
310. Noah's Ark -- Its Geometry [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , 1.6180..., is a number significant to nature. It portrays the manner in which many things grow. It is an "irrational" number, however, in that it has no exact value. Neither is there a pattern of repeating digits, regardless of the number of decimal places of refinement attempted. The spirals of a conch shell and the leafing out of a branch are examples. There are many more examples. There is one that probably inspired the ancients to honor the golden ratio, and "trust their lives to it." Before the present era, the orbit period of all of the visible planets (within 1 ¾%) ...
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