Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience
There are a number of planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience whose existence is not supported by scientific evidence.
Kolob
Kolob is a star or planet described in the Book of Abraham, a sacred text in many traditions of the Latter Day Saint movement. Kolob is also mentioned in a Latter-day Saint hymn. The Book of Abraham refers to Kolob as a "star", however, it also refers to several planets as stars, and Kolob is commonly viewed as a planet by Latter Day Saints today.
Kolob is described as the heavenly body closest to the throne of God. Joseph Smith also claimed it "signified" the first creation.
Lilith
Lilith is a fictitious invisible moon of Earth, supposedly about the same mass as the Earth's
Sepharial's comments ignored the fact that Waltemath's proposed moon had already been discredited by the scientific community at the turn of the century.[5]
There are many readily apparent holes in the arguments supporting Lilith's existence, and its existence is believed only by
In modern astrology
In present-day
Planets proposed by L. Ron Hubbard
One planet in the Scientology doctrine is known as Helatrobus.[9][10][11]Ummo
Ummo is a hypothetical planet believed to be located in the Constellation Virgo. Ummo and his civilisation is described in a decades-long series of claims that
Since 1991, the well known french researcher Jean-Pierre Petit has claimed to have detected signs of superior intelligence in some of the Ummite writings he says he has received. He also claims that the scientific subjects addressed in the ummite letters are totally innovative and have directly inspired him in his research in cosmology and magnetohydrodynamics..[17] · [18] · [19]
On the basis of letters, it is difficult to speak of an Ummite language. All we have, apart from a few complete sentences, is a lexicon, a set of vocables, the vast majority of which are given to us in isolation. Antonio Ribera mentions 403 words ummites in a 1978 compilation [20] and Jean Pollion, in Ummo, de vrais extraterrestres (2002), lists over a thousand words considering that every doubling of a letter in a word is significant.
Two theories have been formulated by analysts of Ummite letters:
- the first, defended by Jean Pollion pseudonyme, considers that each letter (sound or phoneme) in words transcribed in typewritten form is signifying, and he has called these sounds "soncepts". He considers this to be an "ideophonemic" language:[21]
."By analogy with ideographic languages, which proceed by assembling ideas corresponding to written and pronounceable signs, I have chosen to attribute to this language the "ideophonemic" character. To date, I have counted 17 "soncepts" by associative combinations of these phonemes, almost all of which are relational"
- The second considers that differences in spelling (especially the doubling of letters) are of little significance, and that they are due to differences in the understanding of foreign sounds by the typist(s), or to difficulties in alphabetic transcription. They consider that language is made up of word-objects and not of "soncepts".
Currently, more than 1300 pages of those letters have been registered, but it is possible that many other letters exist. In a 1988 letter, reference is made to the existence of 3850 pages, copies of which have been sent to several individuals, representing perhaps up to 160,000 pages of total Ummo documents. The true identity of the authors of those reports remains unknown.
Dash notes that "few ufologists outside Spain took Ummoism seriously—the photographic evidence was highly suspect, and, while the Ummite letters were more sophisticated than most contactee communication, there was nothing in them that could not have originated on Earth." Still, Dash allows that, whatever their origins, "considerable effort had gone into the supposed hoax." (Dash, 299)
Many scientific subjects are described in detail in the letters, including network theory (or graph theory), astrophysics, cosmology, the unified field theory, biology, and evolution. Some of this information is thought to be dubious pseudoscience, but much of it is scientifically accurate. However, Jerome Clark (Clark, 1993) notes that Jacques Vallée argued that the scientific content of the Ummo letters was knowledgeable but unremarkable, and compared the scientific references to a well-researched science fiction novel—plausible in the 1960s, but dated by the standards of the 1990s. Controversy arose about one particular assertion of the Ummites. In 1965, they wrote they were coming from a planet orbiting Wolf 424, adding this star is 3.68502 light-years from the Sun. This was consistent with the distance estimated in 1938, but after some additional measurements, the estimate was revised to 14.3 light-years. Fernando Sesma asked then the Ummites about this apparent mistake. The Ummites replied in another letter the same year that the first measurement is the real distance measured in the "three-dimensional framework" while the second is "the apparent distance traveled by light".[22][failed verification]
Planets proposed by Zecharia Sitchin
The work of Zecharia Sitchin has garnered much attention among
Sitchin's theory proposes the planets Tiamat and Nibiru. Tiamat supposedly existed between Mars and Jupiter. The planet's orbit was disrupted by the arrival of a large planet or very small star (less than twenty times the size of Jupiter) which passed through the planetary system between 65 million and four billion years ago. The new orbits caused Tiamat to collide with one of the moons of Nibiru. The debris from this collision are thought by the theory's proponents to have variously formed the asteroid belt and the current form of planet Earth.
Sitchin claims that the
Beginning in 1995, websites such as ZetaTalk have claimed that Nibiru or "Planet X" is a brown dwarf currently within our planetary system, soon to pass relatively close to Earth. Sitchin disagreed it is a star, with the timing and parameters of passage.[26]
Sitchin also postulated that
Serpo
Project Serpo is an alleged
The first mention of a 'Project Serpo' was in a UFO email list maintained by enthusiast Victor Martinez. Various versions of the
Zeta Reticuli has a history in ufology (including the
The story finally claims that twelve American military personnel visited the planet between 1965 and 1978 and that all of the party have since died, from "after effects of high radiation levels from the two suns".[27] Another version of the story claims that "Eight (8) Team Members returned on the seven (7) month trek home. Team Member #308 (Team Pilot #2) died of a pulmonary embolism en route to SERPO on the 9-month journey; 11 arrived safely. One (1) died on the planet – and both of their bodies were returned to Earth – while two (2) others decided to remain on the ALIEN homeworld of SERPO." (http://www.serpo.org/release36.php) One criticism of Project Serpo stems from the lack of veracity of one of its alleged witnesses,
Bill Ryan, a chief proponent of publicizing the Project Serpo claims, announced on March 5, 2007, that he was stepping down from his role as webmaster for the Serpo material. Ryan nevertheless maintains his belief that an extraterrestrial exchange program did occur, although he states that the Serpo releases definitely contained disinformation.[29]
See also
- Fictional planets of the Solar System
- Lost asteroids
- Nibiru cataclysm
- Planets in astrology
- Religious cosmology
- Stars proposed in religion
- UFO conspiracy theory
Notes
- ISBN 1-85754-661-X, Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd. (October 1, 2004); Graves & Patai cite "Yalqut Reubeni ad. Gen. II. 21; IV. 8.", for which see "Lilith". Gnosis.
- ISBN 0-521-63280-3– via Google Books.
- ^ Schlyter, Paul (2008). "Hypothetische Planeten". NeunPlaneten.de. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
- ISBN 1-56459-717-2– via Google-books.
- ^ a b Cheung, Samson H. "The Earth's second moon, 1846–present" (personal academic webpage). Davis, CA: University of California.
The original idea was that the gravitational field of the second moon should account for the then-inexplicable minor deviations of the motion of our big Moon. That meant an object at least several [thousands of?] miles large – but if such a large second moon really existed, it would have been seen by the Babylonians.
- ISBN 3907029135
- OCLC 533305.
- OCLC 23079677.
- ISBN 0-385-06776-3– via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-1-920092-16-0. Retrieved 26 August 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ Malko, George (1970). Scientology: The now religion. Delacorte Press. p. 111 – via Archive.org.
- ^ Some forty originals of the letters can be downloaded from the second column (Original PDF scan) on the spanish web site https://ummo-ciencias.org/cartas.html page.
- ^ Ummoism, version of 26 April 2012
- ^ PARANOIA - People Are Strange: Unusual UFO Cults Archived 2007-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Daedro, Enzo (August 2001). "Ummo's Daughters". Fortean Times. Archived from the original on 19 October 2006. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
- ISBN 0-285-63073-3, pages 111-113)
- ISBN 2226055150.
- ISBN 2226078452.
- ISBN 2-268-012-905; p. 217
- ^ Jean Pollion, Ummo, de vrais extraterrestres!, Éditions Aldane, June 2002, page 281.
- ^ (in French)Retour sur l'affaire Ummo
- ^ sitchiniswrong.com
- ^ "Zecharia Sitchin". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
- ^ Govert Schilling. The Hunt For Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto. Copernicus Books. p. 111.
- ^ Andy Lloyd. "Book reviews: The End of Days". Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Project Serpo: Fact or Fiction?, Mysteries Magazine, Issue #15, Tim Swartz, November 2006, Archived at Wayback Machine
- ^ "serpo". reality uncovered. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
- ^ Serpo.org: A Final Update from Bill Ryan: 5 March 2007
References
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- ISBN 0-440-23656-8