READER'S COMMENTS - ARCHIVE

Dear Dr. Uhomann,

I sympathise with your attempts to bring others round to your way of
thinking, and wish you a certain success in ensuring that Truth prevails
in the end. It is a lonely road and a long fight. Your best tools will
are scientific proof rather than rhetoric; in the long run astronomers are
more convinced by numbers than by who is 'right' or 'wrong' (though there
are some outstanding exceptions yet).

May I add a word in your ear? I'm afraid you are likely to damage your
cause by making degrading remarks in public. Suggestions that Ken
Seidelmann acted 'unprofessionally', for example - even if accurate - will

immediately raise hackles and people will delete your message without
considering its scientific impact.

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I hope these remarks will prove useful; they are writtin in the spirit of
trying to help a fellow-passenger on that lonely road mentioned above.

I am no expert in your field, and am not able to entertain any further
communication on this matter.

Good Luck,

*****

(Name withheld by The Sirius Research Group)

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06/04/00

Dear Mrs. Trimble,

I would appreciate your comment on the small paper that I have attached.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Uwe Homann

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08/04/00

This is really not my area of expertise, so my comments would not be useful
to you.
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Note: Mrs. Trimble is a professional astronomer and I believe an editor for "Physics Review". It is also my understanding that she has done some elaborate calculations on the positions of certain stars. Apparently, it was some sort of a research project conducted for a well-known Egyptologist, who had the notion to determine the alignment of these stars with the 'shafts' of the Great Pyramid, as it occurred several thousands of years ago. Since such calculations are based exclusively on the theory of 'precession', I have sent here my paper on the Precession Paradox.

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The co-author of "The Orion Mystery", Mr. Adrian G. Gilbert, had made the following statement in a letter to me on March 23, 1997:

"Thank you for your long fax and subsequent letter, both of which I have now studied. Whilst I find some of the explanation a little technical, I am now sure you are right: Precession is a mathematical con-trick, just like Ptolemy's epicycles. What we see and interpret as the earth's 'wobble' is really the effect produced by our sun going round the star Sirius. This seems perfectly logical to me and I would have thought would come as a great relief to astronomers, who have been scratching their heads for decades trying to understand the forces responsible for precession."

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5/18/00 Dear Mr. Uhomann, Thanks for your message. I owe you a much
belated but still fervant thank you for sending me your paper in June,
1998. [… ]

Your paper was an important addition to my general understanding of the bigger picture. Since
then, I have come across numerous references to the fact that this
knowledge was available in ancient cultures- in sources of course not in
great favor by current science or scholarship. The current "authorities"
support the current paradigm because it is "who they are", if you see what
I mean. It can be quite a blow to the ego to expand the worldview, and each
individual- and scientists are just people- can only go so far,
comfortably. [… ]
In case you had not seen these two sources, I will include a quick note
on them: In The Holy Science, by Swami Sri Yukteswar, various ancient Hindu
teachings are described- "We learn from Oriental astronomy that...the sun,
with its planets and their moons, takes a star for its dual and revolves
around it in about 24,000 years of our earth- a celestial phenomenon which
causes the backward movement of the equinoctial points around the zodiac
..." There is much more. The author died in 1936 and the text was published
in English in 1972 by Yogananda's organization- the Self-Realization
Fellowship in LA, CA.
The next source is the old book by Albert Churchward, Origin and
Evolution of the Human Race, 1921, London. In it he advances much
information about ancient cultures to prove his thesis that the earliest
known ones were "stellar cults" in their religious practices and beliefs.
After degenerative influences appeared, the stellar cults were replaced by
"solar" beliefs, and then on down to lunar beliefs. Interestingly, his
introductory comments include a discussion of a book by Major-General
Drayson, The Earth's Past History, 1888, (Chapman and Hall). Drayson argues
from the astronomical evidence that earth has a second axis of rotation,
and this is not a shifting center, but the real center of rotation,
appearing fixed as to the heavens, with a celestial meridian of about 18
hours. (Sirius would be the polar opposite of this position!) Churchward
uses this to explain why the stellar cults were primary and superior-
because they knew this.
If you haven't seen these books yet, I hope you will find them helpful
in supporting your own good work.

With best regards,

J.S.

(Name withheld by The Sirius Research Group)

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On October 25, 2000 I received an email from an interested reader, who wrote:

Hello, my name is Brandon.

I find your claims and investigations very interesting. However, upon reading your long dissertations, a certain question keeps arising, one which does not involve mathematics:

What is the ultimate goal of your organization? Is it simply to prove that precession of the earth is not possible? In other words, are you fighting this fight simply to knock down a particular popular scientific theory and get your names into the history books, or do you have a bigger goal beyond this?

In any case, the depth and volume of your work is impressive by my humble standards.

BD

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Dear Brandon,

I appreciate your comments and I am sure your questions about the "ultimate" goal of the Sirius Research Group is also on the minds of others who have taken the time to read the informative and provocative articles on this website.

I guess the idea that many people have about an ultimate goal would refer to an ultimate truth. Science is a search for truth. We try to understand the laws and the phenomena of nature according to established scientific principles. In doing so we may discover glimpses of truth. This is a laborious process and usually it is more or less a personal quest. Sometimes, discoveries are made that have further implications on other areas of science. Either way, this can be of benefit to mankind, as some of science most respected individuals have shown throughout history. Perhaps their scientific discoveries made these individuals famous (although not necessarily during their lifetimes), but I think the motivation is more to achieve a deeper understanding of the laws of nature rather than to achieve fame. We cannot deny the fact that the works of our remote ancestors inspired many scholars. Their wish not to remain silent about their discoveries quite often brought them in conflict with established worldviews mostly dominated by religious rather than scientific principles.

In recent times scientific insights and observations of cosmic phenomena have proven Einstein's theories beyond doubt. This does not mean that they contradict Newton's laws. Instead, they offer us an even deeper understanding of the laws that govern our universe. The scientific fact that the so-called 'Precession of the Earth' does not occur in reality is entirely based on fundamental laws of mathematics and classical mechanics. Ultimately, this fact will prove once and for all that Newton's law of gravitation does not apply to all phenomena that are observed in our universe. Hence, Einstein's theory of a non-linear gravitation needs to be further researched.

Based on scientific measurements and observations, the conclusion can be made that the motion of our solar system orbiting the Sirius system causes a phenomenon generally referred to as the "The Precession of the Equinoxes". With respect to this scientific aspect, the Sirius Research Group would like to invite further studies.

Sincerely,

Uwe Homann