A Skeptics look at 2012 (The limitations of science)

by dhw, Sunday, April 22, 2012, 20:01 (4378 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Once again, I've been silent for a few days owing to my wife's illness. I'm pleased to say she's now out of hospital, though she will have to return for further tests. She's feeling better, and just being out of that Kafkaesque environment is as good as a tonic. -Meanwhile, Tony has asked if we have any thoughts on the following:-As far back as in the first half of the 20th century, the prominent Russian scientist Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky laid the foundation of realizing the considerable solar energy impact on terrestrial processes of both biological and non-biological character. He showed convincing statistical relationship between biological and physiological processes and the 11-year solar activity cycles. His studies also include demonstration of solar activity impact on intensification of geological processes, natural disasters in particular. But what is most interesting is that he associated large-scale social processes like wars and revolutions with solar activity impact.-It wouldn't surprise me at all if there were connections between solar cycles and natural disasters, which I would regard as evidence of an impersonal universe. On the other hand, I see wars and revolutions as an on-going manifestation of the lunatic side of the human race ... and in particular our dependence on self-aggrandizing rulers and politicians. One fears that even the great upheaval of the Arab spring will eventually lead to the same old cycle of corrupt regimes whose last thought is for the good of the people. But I'm sure free will sceptics will welcome Chizhevsky's findings.