Third of a special four-episode arc to explore the Polar Configuration. The Sumerians witnessed the appearance of Venus that saw the planet depart from its axial alignment within the polar configuration and wander about the axis. And so it is that comets are associated with the end of a…
Second of a special four-episode arc to explore certain unique aspects of the Polar Configuration. Especially telling are traditions reporting that Zeus launched lightning-like fire from his ‘eye’. Aeschylus described the Greek Thundergod as “The jealous eye of God hurls the lightning down.” Comparative mythologist, Ev Cochrane, dissects the…
Ears ring, windows rattle, the dog hides under the bed. It’s thunder from an arc of electric discharge, or from a passing supersonic jet. Rub your feet on the carpet then touch a doorknob. You get a spark and hear a snap. Same thing—tiny scale. Think of the power…
First of a special four-episode arc to explore certain unique aspects of the Polar Configuration. Beginning with ‘As Above, So Below’—the well-known phrase of legend and myth—this episode analyzes the planetary origins of the king and the bizarre rituals of kingship. To achieve a fact-based history of our solar…
Most binary systems are hard to detect and may contain more than two stars. In January 2021 the discovery of a new and bizarre sextuple system was reported where all the stars aligned perfectly creating a sextuple eclipsing star system. More strange is that the system seems to consist…
We examine three fundamental questions in the second episode of this two-part presentation. Is matter even capable of organizing itself? Where do form and shape come from? Can form exist without matter? Researching the origin of forms in Nature for several decades, Astrophysicist and Lead Scientist of The SAFIRE…
In this first episode of a two-part presentation, we begin with an open question in biology—how do the shapes of creatures come about? How does a certain frog species obtain its particular shape and not some other? How do its legs and toes and claws always get their particular…
Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Many are familiar with this adage, but such ideas were already commonplace by the time of Homer. A famous passage in the Odyssey describes the illicit affair between Ares (Mars) and Aphrodite (Venus) entrapped in flagrante delicto much to the…
The atomic model has remained unchanged for a long time. Yet, there are mysteries it has been unable to solve such as why certain elements are more stable than others, and predicting how large atoms split. In the Structured Atom Model (SAM) the nucleus is constructed using protons which…
While we may not think of science when we think about revolution, surprisingly, scientific progress is a far more revolutionary process than political change. Writer, poet, and discourse analyst, Ghada Chehade, continues her exploration of Kuhn’s paradigm shift model and the present state of cosmology, looking at how the…
