The truth about Comets and Astronomy's greatest quackery revealed

"Astronomers ...as a class they hug caution and are as fearful of having
their dogmas upset as a witch-doctor his magic." - Comyns Beaumont, The
Mysterious Comet, 1932.


From Nature, 5, 174, December 28, 1871:

"Encke's Comet and the Supposed Resisting Medium," by Professor W.
Stanley Jevons.
"The observed regular diminution of period of Encke's comet is still, I
believe, an unexplained phenomenon for which it is necessary to invent a
special hypothesis, a Deus ex machina, in the shape of an imaginary
resisting medium.
....It is asserted by Mr. R. A. Proctor, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, and
possibly others, that comets owe many of their peculiar phenomena to
electric action.
.... I merely point out that if the approach of a comet to the sun causes
the development of electricity arising from the comet's motion, a
certain resistance is at once accounted for."


From Scientific American, July 27, 1872:

"Professor Zöllner, of Leipsic, in a lately published work on the nature
of comets, makes it his purpose to explain the remarkable phenomena they
present by an application of the established principles of physical
science alone.
....The self-luminosity of comets he sets down to electrical excitement...
....the nuclei of comets, as masses, are subject to gravitation, while
the vapors developed from them, which consist of very small particles,
yield to the action of the free electricity of the sun.
....It is therefore sufficient to attribute to the sun an electrical
energy no greater than that supposed to account satisfactorily for the
appearances presented by cometic trains..."

From English Mechanic & World of Science, 11 Aug 1882, pp. 516-7.

COMET'S TAILS "...There seems to be a rapidly growing feeling amongst
physicists that both the self-light of comets and the phenomena of their
tails belong to the order of electrical phenomena."

From Nature, No. 1370, Vol. 53, Jan 30, 1896, p. 306.

Theory of Comet's Tails - "It has long been imagined that the phenomenon
of comet's tails are in some way due to a solar electrical repulsion,
and additional light is thrown on this subject by recent physical
researches.
.... Prof. Fessenden suggests that negatively charged particles are
emitted from that side of a comet which is turned towards the sun..."
(Astrophysical Journal, vol. iii. No. 1)

Science at the end of the 19th century was closer to the truth about
comets than we are now!

Mo
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"Mad Scientist" wrote in message
t.cable.rogers.com...

SNIP

ROFL. Hundred year old papers. Science and astronomy have moved on, you
know? Anyone with a spectroscope (and MANY, MANY amateurs have them) can
confrim the nature of comets.

"Wally Anglesea" wrote in
:


"Mad Scientist" wrote in message
t.cable.rogers.com...

SNIP

ROFL. Hundred year old papers. Science and astronomy have moved on, you
know? Anyone with a spectroscope (and MANY, MANY amateurs have them) can
confrim the nature of comets.

But Wally... don't you realize that the "ancients" knew so much more about
astronomy than us Ufologist wannabes. So by this warped reasoning, the
older a paper is, the more accurate it is. g

nightbat wrote

Mad Scientist wrote:

“Astronomers …as a class they hug caution and are as fearful of having
their dogmas upset as a witch-doctor his magic.” – Comyns Beaumont,
The Mysterious Comet, 1932.

From Nature, 5, 174, December 28, 1871:

"Encke's Comet and the Supposed Resisting Medium," by Professor W.
Stanley Jevons.
“The observed regular diminution of period of Encke's comet is still,
I believe, an unexplained phenomenon for which it is necessary to
invent a special hypothesis, a Deus ex machina, in the shape of an
imaginary resisting medium.
...It is asserted by Mr. R. A. Proctor, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, and
possibly others, that comets owe many of their peculiar phenomena to
electric action.
... I merely point out that if the approach of a comet to the sun
causes the development of electricity arising from the comet's motion,
a certain resistance is at once accounted for.”

From Scientific American, July 27, 1872:

“Professor Zöllner, of Leipsic, in a lately published work on the
nature of comets, makes it his purpose to explain the remarkable
phenomena they present by an application of the established principles
of physical science alone.
...The self-luminosity of comets he sets down to electrical
excitement...
...the nuclei of comets, as masses, are subject to gravitation, while
the vapors developed from them, which consist of very small particles,
yield to the action of the free electricity of the sun.
...It is therefore sufficient to attribute to the sun an electrical
energy no greater than that supposed to account satisfactorily for the
appearances presented by cometic trains...”

From English Mechanic & World of Science, 11 Aug 1882, pp. 516-7.

COMET'S TAILS “...There seems to be a rapidly growing feeling amongst
physicists that both the self-light of comets and the phenomena of
their tails belong to the order of electrical phenomena.”

From Nature, No. 1370, Vol. 53, Jan 30, 1896, p. 306.

Theory of Comet's Tails – “It has long been imagined that the
phenomenon of comet's tails are in some way due to a solar electrical
repulsion, and additional light is thrown on this subject by recent
physical researches.
... Prof. Fessenden suggests that negatively charged particles are
emitted from that side of a comet which is turned towards the sun...”
(Astrophysical Journal, vol. iii. No. 1)

Science at the end of the 19th century was closer to the truth about
comets than we are now!

Mo
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=uf4ty065

--
Usenet is filled with abusive and obsessive-compulsive-sociopathic
personality disorder sufferers which makes it all the more easily
ignored, dismissed and ridiculed.

nightbat

Thank you Questioning Scientist for the interesting post on past
scientific community contributor publications comments about comets. And
while much still needs to be learned about them our chasing satellites
are quickly closing the gap on their mysterious under normal gravity
makeup and behavior.


the nightbat