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Fri Jan 15 13:58:47 1982
Question on Michelson-Morley experiment (sri-unix.506 followup)
The business about thiotimoline (the substance that dissolved about a second
before water was added was a *satire*, not a hoax or a mistake. Asimov
wrote it as comic relief from his dissertation, in which he was working
with a substance that dissolved almost instantly when it hit water. As
he tells the story in Opus 100 (excerpts from his first 100 books), Campbell
was supposed to publish it under a pen-name to avoid offending Asimov's
Ph.D. committee, but forgot. Nothing was said to Asimov by the faculty,
until the end of his orals, when a professor said "Asimov, what can you
tell us about the properties of resublimated thiotimoline?" Asimov also
reports that the New York Public Library was deluged with requests for
the non-existent journals he referenced in his story.
To return to the subject of heretical physics, I've been seeing ads in
Scientific American for "The Journal of Classical Physics", which bills
itself as "intended for Scientists and knowledgeable laypersons who feel
Quantum Wave Mechanics is non-predictive and ultimately counterproductive
and that classical model development is preferred." The inaugural issue
is a reprint of a book that claims, among other things, that starlight
reaches earch fractions of a second, not years, after its emission.
Anyone know anything about this bunch? (And should we move this whole
discussion to SF-LOVERS?)
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