| Man, Myth & Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences |
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism
|
Catastrophism.com
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism |
|
| Sign-up | Log-in |
Introduction | Publications | More
|
Search results for: thunderbolt in all categories
371 results found.
38 pages of results. 261. Jupiter in Collision: in Search of Velikovsky's Comet [Articles]
... body with a tail is mentioned. It is no wonder then that Velikovsky calls on the "mysterious pillar" for help. Yet it is not Exodus he turns to in reconstructing the days of Exodus and Joshua, but to the great Greek tradition of the fight between Zeus and Typhon. Velikovsky inserted this account of a central god throwing thunderbolts and great balls of fire at an encircling deity as an explanation of how a comet loses and regains its tail: "Some saw the pillar of cloud- Typhon defeated by Jupiter, the ball of fire that emerged from the pillar and battled with it. Others interpreted the globe as a body different from Jupiter .. . the ...
262. On Morrison: Some Final Remarks (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... its primary (Jupiter) that it is even today involved in energetic electrical give and take with that primary. Of all the satellites in that system, Io is most spectacularly scarred with features suggestive of discharge activity. Io is almost a caricature of Mars, exhibiting multiple examples of the numerous markings to be expected on a body tormented by thunderbolts. And all are fresh-looking, as if Io were more than once and not too long ago the whipping boy for an aroused Jupiter. I wish to acknowledge valuable and helpful discussions concerning this paper and suggestions offered for its improvement by Professors E. R. Milton and L. M. Greenberg and by C. Leroy Ellenberger. ...
263. Nor Heaven Nor Earth Have Been at Peace: The Contemporary Foundations of Shakespeare's Cataclysmic Imagery (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... Sere's The True Report of the burnyng of the steple and churche of Poules in London, and, almost inevitably, the accounts of Strype and Stowe concerning the same event. Strype, in fact, records that 4 June, 1561, was a bad day for churches altogether. St. Martin's church by Ludgate was struck by a "thunderbolt" which caused "great stones from the battlement of the steeple . . . [to fall] down upon the leads of the church, and break the leads and boards, and a great chest in two pieces".(54) Stowe notes that, on the same day, the cathedral at Shaftesbury was struck by lightning ...
264. Plato And The Catastrophist Tradition [Journals] [Kronos]
... greatest are by fire and water, and lesser ones by countless other means. Thus the story current also in your part of the world that Phaethon, son of Helios, once harnessed his father's chariot but could not guide it on his father's course and so burnt up everything on the face of the earth and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt - that story as it is told seems like a fable; but the truth behind it is a shifting of the bodies that move in the heavens around the earth and a destruction, occurring at long intervals, of things on earth by fierce fire" (Tim. 22 C-D). If there is one question crucial above all ...
265. Thoth Vol VII, No 2: Mar 15, 2003 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Some years ago, the tethered satellite experiment suffered a plasma discharge that severed the tether cable as it was being reeled out from the space shuttle. That phenomenon will be repeated on a grand scale in any attempt to stretch a conducting elevator cable from Earth into space. The power that drives regional thunderstorms will be concentrated into a single cataclysmic thunderbolt, destroying the elevator cable like a thin fuse wire. In the worst scenario, the 50km high ground station will be replaced by a neat, circular crater, like those seen elsewhere in the solar system and attributed, erroneously, to meteoric impacts. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ ...
266. Thoth Vol I, No. 19: July 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... counterpart of the plumed serpent of the Quetzalcoatl myth] .. . He can be identified, from the quincunx (the five points that together form the emblem of the morning star) that adorns him, as the planet Venus."- FORMATION OF CHONDRITIC METEORITES Wal Thornhill (walt@netinfo.com.au) It is the thunderbolt that steers the Universe' - Heraclitus, c.500 BC Meteorites are important in the scheme of things because they are thought to be the Rosetta stones of the formation of the solar system. I don't believe that. Rather, I think they are a snapshot taken during the more catastrophic phases of the recent development of the solar ...
267. Of the Moon and Mars, Part 2 [Journals] [Pensee]
... the rims of earlier ones is strongly suggestive of electrical activity. One hesitates to propose that Nix Olympica, in spite of its obvious youth, is a result of Mars-Moon discharge activity only 2700 years ago. Its bulk alone is enough to give pause to such speculation. Still, who can say what internal forces might be tapped by a thunderbolt to a body like Mars? Conceivably the heat and shock of such a strike could have been all that was necessary to produce an enormous outpouring of lava, especially from a Mars already disturbed by not-much-earlier contacts with Venus. An observation by M. H. Carr (125) may be of great significance in this connection: " ...
268. Thoth Vol I, No. 21: August 11, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the comet answers so completely to the Great Comet (Venus) as to logically preclude the customary, localized explanations of these fears. The things which ancient nations believed about comets are, in every case, inseparably tied to the story of one heaven-shattering, universally-remembered comet, an archetype in every sense of the word.- It is the thunderbolt that steers the Universe' -Heraclitus, c.500 BC LIGHTNING OF THE GODS By Wal Thornhill (walt@netinfo.com.au) [EDITOR'S NOTE: This begins a series of articles by Wal Thornhill on the electrical character of stars and planets.] Heraclitus, 2,500 years ago, was closer to the truth ...
269. Thoth Vol I, No. 22: August 31, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... planet/sun. The strong vertical magnetic field in sunspots suggests this is so in their case. (Birkeland currents flow along magnetic field lines in a force-free fashion). The long-lived GRS on Jupiter may be associated with some underlying electrical inhomogeneity in the planet resulting from the catastrophic breakup of the Saturnian system. The many reports of Jovian thunderbolts attest to the probability that the giant planet may bear hidden electrical scars. Of course, the standard picture of the structure of Jupiter does not allow for a solid surface under the clouds to bear scars. But it must be remembered that the Electrical Universe requires a completely new estimation of what a "gas giant" really is. ...
270. Thoth Vol II, No. 5: March 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the laws of physics? The Electric Universe exposes the ignorance underlying modern cosmology. It shows that the key to a true understanding of our universe and the recent history of the solar system comes from acknowledging simple electrical interactions between all matter in the universe. The result is an astounding concordance between ancient testimony of planets battling in the sky with thunderbolts, and modern plasma physics. Proof of the thesis comes from the unique electrical scars of battle seen on the surfaces of those planets. The result is a glimpse of the exciting new science of the third millenium." *A Special QuickTime movie of Velikovsky at the 1974 McMasters Symposium has been added as a bonus. This two ...
Search powered by Zoom Search Engine Search took 0.062 seconds |
