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 There's a reason I didn't bring up the name "Velikovsky", as it tends to have a d~~ning effect on discussions. |
Regardless of what I think of his conclusions and methods, I still found his ideas interesting. What's disconcerting is that, in order to 'prove' astronomical events from the past, such as Joshua's long day, Velikovsky has to bend and twist more established science such as the Law of Angular Momentum, which, as I showed my son by having him swing a bucket of water upside down. Same simple law that keeps that water in place keeps those planets in place as well; that's what makes the Law a law, and using ad hoc arguments to placate possibly mythological events and subvert this Law makes me wonder: is this new science or old hat?
Speaking of science and angular momentum, the
Voyager spacecraft has crossed over the heliosphere. Think that I would rely on an observation made 'next to the hurricane' (this hurricane is seven billion miles from the sun) than one made from earth. Even at that distance, L = r X p.
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And IF these things actually occurred, I for one would love to see an animated (or virtual) recreation of it to see what it might have looked like to traumatized folks looking at their chaotic sky.
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What about the aurora borealis? What I'd like to see is the night sky, not drowned out by light or air pollution - to see it like they did years ago - and wonder.
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Of course, this goes beyond Tolkien except to the degree that he used such archetypes in his works. So the idea of no sun or moon comes back full circle; if (big if) Saturn was at one time the only "sun" people on earth knew, it is interesting that Tolkien used that theme in his work. More than that probably cannot be said.
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Most people probably don't give the origin of the sun and moon much thought.