Feb 20, 2018 08:20 PM
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-weir...-top-nazis
EXCERPT: Nazis came to believe in a lot of strange and horrific ideas as they built up their Third Reich and attacked the world. One of the weirdest was the theory about the creation of the universe that Hitler and other top Nazis promoted called the World Ice Theory (“Welteislehre” aka just WEL) or Glacial Cosmology (“Glazial-Kosmogonie”).
This obviously discredited concept was developed by the Austrian engineer and inventor Hanns Hörbiger. What he essentially claimed in a 1912 book was that ice is the basic element involved in all cosmic events. In fact, ice moons, ice planets and also “global ether” (made of ice) controlled the development of the universe, according to Hörbiger.
[...] The gist of their idea was that the solar system was born of a gigantic star into which one day crashed another star, which was dead, but filled with water. The resulting explosion threw the smaller star’s bits all over interstellar space, where water condensation froze them into enormous blocks of ice. A ring of such blocks created what we know as the Milky Way as well as a host of other solar systems. The large outer planets of our system are that size because they swallowed a large number of ice blocks, says the theory. The inner planets like Earth haven’t consumed as much ice but get pummeled by ice in the form of meteors. The theory also says that our current moon is not the first one we’ve had. In fact, several other ones (made of ice, of course) were destroyed by crashing into Earth.
[...] When someone criticized his ideas, for example stating that they don’t make sense mathematically, Hörbiger responded with such statements as "Calculation can only lead you astray." If any visual evidence was presented against his theory, the Austrian engineer dismissed such pictures, saying they were faked by “reactionary” astronomers. You know - fake news. In a telling answer to the rocket expert Willy Ley, Hörbiger proposed that "Either you believe in me and learn, or you will be treated as the enemy,“ according to Martin Gardner’s 1957 book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science....
MORE: http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-weir...-top-nazis
EXCERPT: Nazis came to believe in a lot of strange and horrific ideas as they built up their Third Reich and attacked the world. One of the weirdest was the theory about the creation of the universe that Hitler and other top Nazis promoted called the World Ice Theory (“Welteislehre” aka just WEL) or Glacial Cosmology (“Glazial-Kosmogonie”).
This obviously discredited concept was developed by the Austrian engineer and inventor Hanns Hörbiger. What he essentially claimed in a 1912 book was that ice is the basic element involved in all cosmic events. In fact, ice moons, ice planets and also “global ether” (made of ice) controlled the development of the universe, according to Hörbiger.
[...] The gist of their idea was that the solar system was born of a gigantic star into which one day crashed another star, which was dead, but filled with water. The resulting explosion threw the smaller star’s bits all over interstellar space, where water condensation froze them into enormous blocks of ice. A ring of such blocks created what we know as the Milky Way as well as a host of other solar systems. The large outer planets of our system are that size because they swallowed a large number of ice blocks, says the theory. The inner planets like Earth haven’t consumed as much ice but get pummeled by ice in the form of meteors. The theory also says that our current moon is not the first one we’ve had. In fact, several other ones (made of ice, of course) were destroyed by crashing into Earth.
[...] When someone criticized his ideas, for example stating that they don’t make sense mathematically, Hörbiger responded with such statements as "Calculation can only lead you astray." If any visual evidence was presented against his theory, the Austrian engineer dismissed such pictures, saying they were faked by “reactionary” astronomers. You know - fake news. In a telling answer to the rocket expert Willy Ley, Hörbiger proposed that "Either you believe in me and learn, or you will be treated as the enemy,“ according to Martin Gardner’s 1957 book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science....
MORE: http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-weir...-top-nazis