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- From: btd@iastate.edu (Benjamin T Dehner)
- Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM debunking needed)
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- References: <1993Jan23.013321.22729@s1.gov> <7VHVXB7w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:28:57 GMT
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- In <7VHVXB7w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
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- >lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
-
- ...
-
- >> And is the Moon _closer_ in linear distance, or isn't it?
-
- >Yes, the Moon is closer in linear distance, but higher than the sun in
- >the "z" coordinate. However, this is a 3-dimensional analogue of what is
- >actually a higher dimensional situation.
-
- Please describe the geometry of this situation.
-
- >> >Eclipses are explained as the result of the planet Rahu passing
- >> >between the sun and the earth, or the moon and the earth. In modern
- >> >astronomy, the planet Rahu is identified as the moon's ascending node,
- >> >which is indeed in line with the sun-moon-earth system during an
- >> >eclipse.
- >>
- >> There is no such thing as a planet separate from the Moon that
- >> causes eclipses.
-
- >So you say, but this is only your opinion. You cannot see Rahu, but that
- >does not mean it doesn't exist.
-
- BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I ain't seen one this good in a long time.
- Does this also apply to the pink elephants I didn't see at the bachelor party
- I was at this weekend?
- Or, to more serious matters, you are positing the existence of a
- body which is capable of blocking light and causing a shadow, yet, at the
- same time, cannot be seen? (Or detected by radar, gravitational perturbations,
- causes no stellar occultations, ...)
- Also, in a couple of other threads, you metion something about 'higher
- planes'. Could you please give a geometrical description of what these are
- like? For example, current theories have space-time set up as a Riemannian
- geometry with the metric determined by the mass distribution (this is what
- Gneral Relativity tells us) which means that the universe is really non-
- Euclidean, although this is difficult to detect in the solar neighborhood.
- Sorry, but this handwaving mystical nonsense about 'higher planes'
- is not an answer, and the claims of religious document which as it's only
- support is your belief in them is no evidence. This is SCI . SKEPTIC .
- Please either give hard evidence, a repeatable experimental procedure, a
- method of objectively verifying your statements, or silence. Somehow, I
- am of the impression that 'none of the above' will be the case.
-
- >Sincerely,
- >Kalki Dasa
-
-
- Don't forget to chant:
-
- Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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- Benjamin T. Dehner Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- btd@iastate.edu Iowa State University
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