Thanks for sending me a working link, jimbow.
I wished you had told me that we talk about different Apollonius' as I immediately go to the Tayanen. Anyway:
Due to alternative" views on ourstory pressing in, even in daily news, I hear, many things are already being gradually and "carefully" revised, but as you know, a critical point on all levels is necessary to make the leap.
It is not surprising to people who study old civilizations by way of philosophy, friends of wisdom, that their "priests" were versed in sciences celestial and terrestrial: think Hermes, and no one can write a "Book of Enoch" without knowing the workings of the heavens and effects on earth, and vis-a-vis. Look at who is present at "The School of Athens" by Raphael. All modern science stands on their shoulders, including Newton, Kepler, more recent Einstein and the "quantum Mechanics", Planck, Heisenberg etc, and it gets better all the time. For good measure and a little less seriousness we can throw in the Beetles:
I used to get mad at my school,
the teachers that taught me wer'nt cool,
holding me down, turning me round,
filling me up with their rules
You write:
"The Principle or Law) - for Conservation of Momentum.
Modernly this principle is stated in this fashion: (
physics conservation of momentum means the total momentum of the system before an event (will equal) the total momentum after the event.
"The principle expressed as the conservation of angular momentum .. is the key ingredient in chartering Kepler's 2nd law, in accordance with this principle , as an orbiting body extends it's radius (in navigating an ellip(t)ical orbit) it must accelerate and the change in velocity is observable against the background of the stars."
All this is good and fine, but to effect "a serious reform of the social sciences", it has to be brought down to the level of us mere mortals and children in school, like they do in China for instance, where one child is the sun and other children are planets moving around it. Or, as it can be explained to a child on a swing using great energy to gain momentum, accelerating, and the total velocity it has gained before it gets too tired, can't help but conserve energy, is the critical point where the "speed" is equal before and after the highest swing. And the background to observe all this is the playground. (of the stars too
) Of course, it would take many more words for a child to "get" the parallel with a celestial body, but children and couch pataoes do get it, and that where it is needed for humanity to progress.
The "system" then, whether a human body or solar system, does other, more restful things like "hanging out" for a while. Not to get into all the interesting technical explanation, and the wisdom of the ancients, which you already explain, I would like to add that all things in space, as well as here on earth "hang out" and conserve energy and momentum, from Planck's intelligent photon selecting the shortest curve to its goal, to a person looking at the map for the shortest way to his destination.
I like what you say in the "Epilogue", and would add that in "ancient" times to warrant the title "Philosopher" one had to be proficient in the sciences. See Pythagoras.
I'm still not clear about your "Eye of Horus", and planets being ejected from Jupiter and it is "unthinkable" for me how they would form in this giant planet. In Masonic lore, the Eye of Horus is the all-seeing eye within a flaming pheonix, explained mathematically with the 47th problem of Euclid.
Charlotte
