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Harry Stein and Physics
I suspect Harry's physics is a little better than some people's
spelling.
G. Harry Stine worked for a number of years as assistant
to Dr. (Col.) William Davis. Now "Spacedrive" Davis was indeed
considered wrong; but he was pretty well respected even so. Not
a crackpot.
I thought Harry's article a bit intemperate, but I've
noticed a number of physicists who didn't seem very interested
in looking at new data either. A few years ago we had a big
meeting on Davis Mechanics and the Dean Drive, on the theory
that if there was ANY chance of experimental data in
contradiction to relativity it would be worth presewrving.
Dr. Robert Forward of Hughes Research wasn't too proud
to come to the meeting. Dr. Robert Bussard hasn't been too
proud to discuss the subjhect. True, the evidence is skimpy to
non-existent, and if you had to bet you'd have to put your money
on general relativity; but even Forward points out that in the
Einstein tensor, inertia and gravity aren't NECESSARILY equal.
Empirically they turn out to be so to about 11 decimal places,
but the Cal Tech people way there's still no really definitive
reason why they should; at least that's what I think Lee and
Lightman were saying. Certainly Forward says it.
It's one thing to be convinced of orthodox physical
theory and to defend it; it's quite another to become
intemperate in the defense. Harry is probably wrong, and he
loves to rattle people's cages anyway; leave it at that, and
don't think it necessary to destroy the man.
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