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Date: November 15, 2013 at 15:59:38
From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: i was blessed to find a copy of "Worlds in Collision" in 1981 |
URL: http://www.physics.orst.edu/files/physics/news00.html |
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and twice blessed in 1986 to be have the opportunity ... after his pith ball charge exchange demonstration ... to ask physics professor Larry Schechter a theoretical question about exchange of charge between two planetary sized-bodies
his reaction was priceless ... "Where did you hear that!" he sputtered ... i didn't even have to mention Velikovsky ... his faced turned a sort of reddish purple and he turned on his heel and stomped off
it was my first encounter with a "quackademic" who had been blinded by dogma ... i know now that his violent reaction to a reasonable question was typical ... it transformed an otherwise rational being into purple-faced ranting "quackademic" hack
but the victory was mine ... i had raised the question ... and all he had raised was his back
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Date: November 16, 2013 at 00:05:29
From: JTRIV, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: i was blessed to find a copy of "Worlds in Collision"... |
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Hi HG,
My copy is the 1977 paperback, I think I picked it up in 1978 or 1979. Althoutgh what first caught my interest was an condensed version of Velikovsky in Reader's Digest in the mid 1970's.
I watched the video. I've always found Velikovsky an interesting character. I was surprised that the documentary did acknowledge that nothing is science supports Velikovsky's ideas. Celestial mechanics has always been the downfall of his theories. Of course geology, physics, astronomy and even climate science haven't contradict Velikovsky's ideas of global catastrophes.
I also find it interesting that Velikovsky started by looking into the same Biblical origin stories that Zecharia Sitchin started with. Both men base their work on ancient fables, legends and myths. Both use some of the same Sumerian/Babylonian stories, although with vastly different interpretations. And of course no actual Sumerian/Babylonian scholars agree with their interpretations.
I'm not sure why you are so disrespectful to a deceased physicist. By the mid-1980's Velikovsky was old news and I'm sure he'd been asked about silly things like planetary discharges many times. To this day you won't find a physicist who supports such things.
Cheers
Jim
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