Soon after Caltech astronomers began aiming long-range radar beams at Venus in 1962, they made an unexpected discovery. They found that the earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor spins not only more slowly than the other planets, but also in the opposite direction.*Long puzzled by Venus' eccentric behavior and dissatisfied with previous attempts to explain it, Geophysicist S. Fred Singer has now come forth with an ingenious theory.
Most scientists have attributed the peculiar spin of Venus to huge tidal bulges created long ago on the surface of the planet by the sun's gravitational field. Such bulges would have acted like brake shoes on the...
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