WOT End of the world and need help

[Gozra]

I still need help the DSL is still off line and I cannot get any private internet access. I am in most of the Devnull games and a bund of the poportions and on KOTH game.

So what do you understand about Velikovsky Did you look at the Electric Universe material? Is there any scientist anywhere that has seen a black hole?

[Phoenix-D]

You can't see a black hole, more or less by definiton. What you -can- do is predict what it would do, and look for those. By that standard we have found quite a few. (or something that behaves the same way).

In case you're inclined to dismiss it on that basis- keep in mind that's how we know about the existence of the electron and the atom, not to mention a load of other stuff.

[parabolize]

Don't worry about the koth game.

[capnq]

Gozra said: So what do you understand about Velikovsky

That he was at best a crackpot with no knowledge of basic physics, and at worst a deliberate fraud.

Did you look at the Electric Universe material?

Yes, and I regret wasting that much time on it. Talbott apparently takes Velikovsky seriously, which in my book makes him worse than Velikovsky.

As was quoted at The Skeptic's Dictionary:

The less one knows about science, the more plausible Velikovsky's scenario appears.... --Leroy Ellenberger

[Baron Munchausen]

That he was at best a crackpot with no knowledge of basic physics, and at worst a deliberate fraud.


Ding! Ding!

You win the prize, a free URL full of pointers to information about just how cracked Velikovsky's pot really was:

http://www.astrosociety.org/educatio...eudobib07.html

Probably the best reference in this list is to the work of a former 'follower' of Velikovsky who finally figured out how ridiculous his ideas were:

http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/velidelu.html