Glacial Cosmogony (Welteislehre)

Glacial Cosmogony (German: "Glazialkosmogonie"), also known as Welteislehre (English: "World Ice Doctrine", also translated as "World Ice Theory") is a cosmogonic hypothesis that holds "the cosmic polarity of a hot substance and ice is the driving force of all changes," in particular the attractive force of gravity (union) and the expansive force of water vapor (separation), and that the stars and planets have formed as a result of collisions with ice masses, and that sunspots are a consequence of cosmic ice falling into the Sun, an event that restores energy lost as solar radiation by introducing kinetic energy from the falling body. The concept was first proposed by Hanns Hörbiger, an Austrian engineer, based on a vision he stated he had received in 1894, and was developed with Philipp Fauth from 1898, the two collaborating to produce Hörbigers Glazial-Kosmogonie (1913), the first and main work on the subject.

Among the adherents of the theory was Max Valier, who wrote and lectured on the subject extensively.

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 * &mdash; [English: "Hörbiger's Glacial Cosmogony, a New History of the Development of the Universe and the Solar System based on the Knowledge of the Conflict Between a Cosmic Neptunism and an Equally Universal Plutonism, etc."]