驳“九星成线”灾难说——兼批孔孟的反动“天命观”

最近,一些西方资产阶级学者提出“九星成线”灾难说:当太阳系九颗行星在太阳同侧排成一线时,将会骤然“刹住”地球自转,引起灾难性的大地震。本文对这种错误观点进行了批判。 根据中国二千七百多年历史地震的丰富记载,七级以上的大地震共发生过一百二十多次,同期“九星成线”有十五次,可这百余次大震没有一次发生在“九星成线”的年份上。迄今为止,世界上最大的一次地震,既与“九星成线”无关,也并未“摧毁地球”。对地球引力的主要影响来自太阳和月球,其他行星影响总和的最大值,不过是月球的万分之一而已。地震是地球内部的一种矛盾运动,不能把行星间引力对某些地震的影响片面夸大加以绝对化。“九星成线”灾难说,缺乏事实根据,在科学上是说不通的。 这种错误观点的提出并非偶然,科学技术的发展总是为一定的政治路线服务的。早在我国西汉末年（公元一世纪初年）,孔孟之徒曾对这同一种自然现象宣扬过“五星联珠”吉祥说,妄图挽救反动奴隶制的崩溃。同儒家曲解自然现象的下场一样,西方资产阶级宣扬灾难说,欺骗人民,以掩盖资本主义世界的政治经济危机,也必然是完全徒劳的。

REFUTING THE FALLACY OF THE "NINE PLANETS LINE-UP" CATASTROPHE——In repudiation of the reactionary theory of "Heaven's Will" advocated by Confucius and Mencius

Eecently, some western bourgeois scholars advanced the thesis of the "Nine planets line-up" catastrophe, asserting that when all the nine planets of the solar system are aligned on the one side of the sun, the earth will suddenly be brought to a "stand-still", giving rise to a catastrophic earthquake. This article criticizes this thesis as a fallacy.The numerous seismological entries in Chinese history books over a period of 2,700 old years recorded more than 120 cases of earthquakes above magnitude seven. In the same period, there were 15 occurrences of the "Nine planets line-up". How-ever, none of those major earthquakes happened in a year of the "Nine planets line-up". The biggest known earthquake in history neither has anything to do with the "Nine planets line-up", nor "devastated the earth". The main influence on the earth's gravitation comes from the sun and the moon, while the aggregate influence of the other planets amounts at most to one ten thousandth of that of the moon. Earth-quakes are results of motions of contradictions inside the earth. The influence of interplanetary attraction on earthquakes must not be exaggerated or described as a decisive factor. The thesis of the "Nine planets line-up" catastrophe lacks factual basis and is scientifically untenable.The appearance of this fallacy is not accidental. Scientific and technological advances always serve particular political lines. In late western Han dynasty of our country （early 1st Century A.D.）, some Confucians and Mencians, basing themselves on a similar natural phenomenon, preached that the "five planets string-up" Avas a propitious sign, in a vain attempt to save the reactionary slave system from bank-ruptcy. In advocating the catastrophe fallacy, the western bourgeoisie attempts to fool the people and cover up the political and economic crisis of the capitalist world. Their effort to misinterpret natural phenomenon will prove as futile as that of the Confucians.