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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (13260)5/20/2002 12:43:02 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
For those wondering what the Velikovsky Affair was about, you can get something of
an introduction over there from Hogan, and it's well worth the ten minutes or so it will take. It will also
spare me summarizing the old man's theories, which were, well, outlandish. But then no one is more
outlandish than, say, Heisenberg...
jerrypournelle.com
That is simply an absurd statement. Heisenberg was continuing down the path of established physics. There was experimental evidence which his theory explained and which was accounted for by no other theory. His theory made predictions which were borne out by later experiments.
And Velikovsky had none of that.

Velikovsky said that there were impacts on earth by fairly large astronomical bodies and close encounters with large ones in historical times. It didn't happen.
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