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'In 1953 while addressing graduate students at Princeton University, Velikovsky suggested two further testable phenomena: that the Earth's magnetic field reaches as far out into space as the Moon's orbit and is responsible for the vibratory or rocking movements of the moon. Shapley replied that he wasn't interested in Velikovsky's 'sensational claims' because they violate the laws of mechanics and 'if Dr Velikovsky is right, the rest of us are crazy'. At the height of the controversy a decade earlier, Menzel had tried to shoot Velikovsky down by calculating that for his astronomical theory to be right, the Sun would have to have a surface potential of 10 billion billion volts. On the radio emissions from Jupiter, he wrote that, since most scientists do not accept Velikovsky's theory then it follows that 'any seeming verification of Velikovsky's prediction is pure chance'. On the extent of the Earth's magnetic field, Menzel wrote that Velikovsky 'said it would extend as far as the moon; In 1962, Princeton physicist Valentin Bargmann and Columbia astronomer Lloyd Motz wrote a joint letter to the editor of 'Science' magazine calling attention to Velikovsky's priority in predicting Venus's high surface temperature, Jupiter's radio emissions and the great extent of the Earth's magnetosphere, but 'Science's' editor Dr Philip Abelson, was not interested in Velikovsky.
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Velikovsky:

'In 1953 while addressing graduate students at Princeton University, Velikovsky suggested two further testable phenomena: that the Earth's magnetic field reaches as far out into space as the Moon's orbit and is responsible for the vibratory or rocking movements of the moon. And he suggested that the planet superior planet (from which he said the Venus-comet had originated) radiates in the radio frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

These predictions were taken by scientists of the 1950s as fresh tantamount to proof of Velikovsky's ignorance, insanity or both. {We will see him ripping Egyptology besides in the Ramessides issue and mentioning the older realization as well.} Harlow Shapley refused to fit involved in any experimental research to confirm his ideas. When, for instance, it was suggested that Shapley might use the Harvard observatory to search for evidence of hydrocarbons in the Venusian atmosphere. Shapley replied that he wasn't interested in Velikovsky's 'sensational claims' seeing they violate the laws of mechanics and 'if Dr Velikovsky is right, the rest of us are crazy'.

Within little more than a decade of publication, 'all' of Velikovsky's key predictions were confirmed by experiment. The 'Mariner' spacecraft of 1963 determined by experiment that the surface temperature of comet is in the region of 800 degrees Fahrenheit and that the planet's fifteen-mile thick catastrophe is composed of heavy hydrocarbon molecules and possibly more complex organic compounds as well. {My father told me as I was growing up the methane type movement could be degenerate to an major planet type peculiarity with the explosion of hydrogen bombs in the story of Venus.}

In April 1955, Drs. B. F. Burke and K. L. Franklin stated to the American Cyclopean Society their superfluous discovery of radio noise fan out by Jupiter. In 1962, the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and the Goldstone Tracking Station in southern California pledged that radiometric observations showed pole star to have a slow retrograde motion. In the same year, the 'Explorer' satellite detected the Earth's magnetic field at a distance of at least twenty-two radii, while in 1965 it was reported that the tail extends 'at least as far as the moon'. (3)

Considering that the main thrust of science's get under way on Velikovsky was a personal berating on his integrity, the behavior of some of his most vociferous critics in the scientific synergism makes interesting reading. In worshipful 1963, 'Harper's Magazine' which had adopted the original datum of Velikovsky's theories, now did a retrospective piece pointing out how all his main predictions had been stayed out. The set afloat of both articles, Eric Larrabee, made a reference which drew a thunderous response from Donald Menzel, director of Harvard ivied halls Observatory. At the height of the controversy a decade earlier, Menzel had tried to shoot Velikovsky down by manipulative that for his towering theory to be right, the Sun would have to have a surface potential of 10 a zillion zillion volts. Obviously, said Menzel, this is impossible so Velikovsky must be wrong. By an extraordinary chance, in 1960, V. A. Bailey, emeritus professor of physics at Sydney University (who knew nothing of the Velikovsky controversy) alleged to have discovered that the Sun is electrically emergent and has a surface potential of 10 a quadrillion trillion volts - exactly the value teleological by Menzel.

Feeling that Bailey's discovery made him look foolish, Menzel now sent off a strongly worded response to 'Harper's' and a letter to Bailey in Australia inquiring him to revoke his theory of the electric direct on the Sun as it was ancillary the enemy.

According to Ralph Juergens:

Professor Bailey, taking exception to the idea that his own work should be ungoverned to accomodate the anti-Velikovsky forces, prepared an transcription in rebuttal to Menzel's piece and submitted it to 'Harper's' for publication in the same issue with Menzel's. Bailey had discovered a simple arithmetical error in Menzel's calculations, which invalidated his argument.

It is equally interesting to see how the Harvard astronomer dealt with the fact that most of Velikovsky's predictions had been confirmed. On the radio emissions from Jupiter, he wrote that, since most scientists do not take it Velikovsky's theory then it follows that 'any seeming verification of Velikovsky's prediction is pure chance'. As far as the high surface temperature of evening star is concerned, Menzel argued that 'hot is only a relative term'. Later in the treatise he referred back to this statement saying 'I have still disposed of the question of the temperature of Venus'. Actually, in 1950, Menzel had estimated the temperature of wanderer to be in point of 120 degrees Fahrenheit when it is really more like 800 degrees. On the extent of the Earth's magnetic field, Menzel wrote that Velikovsky 'said it would extend as far as the moon; literally the field suddenly breaks off at a distance of several world diameters'. In fact, Menzel was wrong; the field had been detected as extending at least {Emphasis} twenty-two vale radii a year earlier by the 'Explorer' satellite.

To their credit, a few scientists did support Velikovsky next to the tropic of hysteria and intimidation including Princeton's Professor H. H. Hess, who was later principal of the National school of Science's space board. In 1962, Princeton physicist Valentin Bargmann and Columbia astronomer Lloyd Motz wrote a joint letter to the editor of 'Science' magazine beck and call hushed attention to Velikovsky's priority in predicting Venus's high surface temperature, Jupiter's radio emissions and the great extent of the Earth's magnetosphere, but 'Science's' editor Dr Philip Abelson, was not interested in Velikovsky. Instead, he printed a letter from science fiction writer Paul Anderson satirising Velikovsky on the grounds that science fiction writers and hoaxers also made fantastic predictions that were sometimes verified. When the editor of 'Horizon' magazine wrote to Abelson protesting at the exclusion of an opus by Velikovsky, Abelson replied:

‘Velikovsky is a controversial figure. Many of the ideas that he expressed are not ratified by serious students of Neptune science. Since my prejudices happen to equal with this majority, I strained my sense of fair play to be agreeable the letter by Bargmann and Motz, and thought that the accounts payable ledger were nicely poised with the rejoinder of Anderson.’ (4)

'Scientific American' showed that it had not moved on editorially since it ridiculed the Wright Brothers fifty years earlier. The magazine had refused to funnel proclamation for 'Worlds in Collision' {Forwarded by Einstein I believe} and in 1956 it chosen a strongly critical fact by physicist Harrison Brown.' (5)

One of the reasons for this is the fact that Velikovsky's Egyptian chronologies directly refute textual history. In fact he destroys the whole time or calendrical premises of most history and shows how it is based on three pillars of ignorance. Errors of the faith in one fellowship of academics are picked up by others and the whole fiasco is a 'house of cards' with propaganda in mind. When I found his book 'Peoples of the Sea' it was in the fiction section of my local library while the other stories and theories which have been proven false over and over again, are in the reference or science sections.


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