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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
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- Subject: Re: How old is the universe?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.232905.22752@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 23:29:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.172105.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>, hporopudas@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
-
- > Could any one of you check reasonableness of the following figures
- > by computer calculations:
- >
- > [stuff about space potatoes, magic particles with negative mass,
- > radiation peripheries, quantization of time, and mysterious
- > properties of diamond]
-
- Aaarrrggghhh!!!
-
- >
- > Reference for this text and these figures is my article "Structure of Time",
- > which was not accepted to publication by Physical Review newspaper.
-
- I must admit I'm not surprised; it doesn't seem to make any sense. Can you give
- some evidence for your theory, and some predictions from it that would enable it
- to be tested?
-
- Incidentally, regardless of the correctness of the theory, surely an unpublished
- article is no use at all as a *reference*?
-
- --
- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
-