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- From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - NewScientist Article
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.023025.20353@dmp.csiro.au>
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
- References: <abian.723244875@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu> <klclauss.4.723351158@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec11.024139.12143@dmp.csiro.au> <1992Dec12.195654.7419@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:30:25 GMT
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- crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec11.024139.12143@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
- >>
-
- >>Which groups are these appearing in and are they being saved
- >>for posterity? I would appreciate anyone who could email
- >>me the spoof posts or tell me of an ftp site where
- >>they are stored.
-
- > God forbid. 'Posterity' would think us quite batty.s
-
- With the increasing problems of the OZONE layer,
- Green house effect, etc - I think posterity has already has made
- its decision. But Abion does make a nice cherry on the top.
-
- [Deleted]
-
- > Let's get one thing straight; Abian is spouting vacuous
- > irrelevancies. It has nothing to do with 1) nature 2) fate
- > 3) coincidence 4) galileo. His repeated statements, when
- > they even make sense, boil down to 'THINGS CHANGE UNLESS
- > THEY DON'T' (using his idiom). I think you can see
- > that this is not exactly stunning news. Crackpots are also
- > not new, but usually they at least have charm enough to
- > provide physical predictions.
-
- > Also, he continually misuses the term 'inertia'.
-
- >>Also what was the name of that "CRACKPOT" who suggested in the
- >>1950's that the continents are moving, partly based on how you
- >>could fit part of Africa onto South America? like a jigsaw
- >>puzzle? It is a pity the internet did not exist then
- >>because it could have been a pretty good flame-war.
-
- > There is a difference, Wegener at least had
- > a physical theory that made predictions. Abian has
- > a bunch of words that have no scientific meaning.
- > (By the way, Wegener died in 1930).
-
- <SIGH> If only the world would obey my version of history,
- he would have lived at least 20 more years.
-
- Though I agree with your above assessment of Abian, what happened to
- Wegener is particularly sad and not unique to him.
- With risk of rewriting history again,
- he was pretty thoroughly ridiculed because the technology
- for determining that the continents (plates) were moving
- did not exist at the time. Was it in the 1950s that they
- showed the reversal of the earths magnetic field on sea-floor
- rock implying movement of the plates?
-
- Whenever I hear a new theory getting slammed by the mainstream
- scientific community, I always think of Wegener's theory
- that initially was so thoroughly trampled which I also
- remember was pretty personal against him (even if I forget the name
- and get the decade wrong).
-
- What is the most recent theory that got thoroughly
- trampled on by almost every mainstream scientist
- but was shown to be correct in the end. The one that
- sticks in my mind is Mitchell's Chemi Osmotic Theory to
- explain how Mitochondira function.
-
-
- No flames please -
- I'm blindly going with the majority view on Albian's attempted theory.
-
-
- >>
- >>I'm sorry if this has come up before but I lost news for 55
- >>hours because of a dodgy computer on the other end of the wire.
- >>
- >>"Stay Cool, Whats going to happen in 55 hours?" I was asked.
- >>
- >>Nothing, EXCEPT THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY ARE BEING
- >>REWRITTEN AND I AM THE LAST TO FIND OUT ABOUT IT!!!!
-
- > This has been going on for probably 55 days. I don't
- > see any end to it.
-
- > dale bass
-
- This is more proof that sci.chem is ceasing to be a happening
- place. Where are our crackpots and resident loonies?
- Should we take out an anti-monopoly suite
- against sci.physics for cornering the market?
-
- DISCLAIMER:- the above statement was an attemp at sarcasm
- and not an invitiation for freelance loonies to invade our sacred
- space.
-
- Yo all, Lachlan.
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