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- Subject: TIME HAS INERTIA - for laymen?
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- Date: 13 Nov 92 22:48:00 GMT
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- Nf-From: gn.UUCP!antennae Nov 13 22:48:00 1992
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- As a non-physics person who stumbled into this conference by accident
- and stayed out of fascination, it seems to me that you are all behaving
- very oddly towards Professor Abian.
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- If his theory (not a syllable of which can I understand) is wrong,
- why can't the brainiest of you give a proper scientific proof once and
- for all?
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- I would like someone to explain to me in layman's terms what are the
- implications of Professor Abian's idea. Even supposing that it is
- utterly crackbrained, might his line of thought not be worth exploring
- in case it sparks some insight?
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- The oddest thing for me is how those who claim to be most scientifically
- orthodox attack Abian in the most emotional terms. Has science always
- been conducted in this way?
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- Finally, how much of the physics that all of you spout has been learned
- from books? And how much by creative thought and experiment? Are most
- of you merely parroting conventional wisdom and if so, isn't that at the
- very least rather boring?
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- These questions are posed by someone who read English at university
- and who earns his living by creative writing.
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- Indra
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