Correspondence: Brokaw, Gingrich, Einstein &c.
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...I am also sure that when a solution to those problems comes, it won't be from the likes of Van Flandern...
...The idea that we now have to take into account a separate gravitational field as a medium for light around every body in space sounds awfully cumbersome...
...How much harder to imagine four-dimensional space-time as curved...
...JOHN FARRELL Boston, Massachusetts Tom Bethell replies: Jack Wittman is not a reliable commentator, as may be seen...
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...Van Flandern is convinced, for example, that there is a huge, stone face on Mars that was sculpted by an ancient alien civilization...
...The refusal of the awards committee to give Kazan his due through the years is merely one more example of the vindictiveness of liberals...
...That is absolute nonsense...
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...Teller drew a sharp distinction between special and general relativity...
...So what...
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...It is safe to say that neither he nor anyone else would have come up with the equation had he not first laid the groundwork in which light is assumed to be invariant...
...In the realm of the very large, the very small, and the very fast, Newtonian physics breaks down, and no longer describes reality...
...In general relativity, on the other hand, "the four-dimensional space, God help us, is curved, whatever that means...
...He said he was "as sure of special relativity as I am of anything...
...But that doesn't mean that it is "wrong...
...LINDA IRBY Garland, Texas Thoroughly enjoyed your article on Newt...
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...In "On Improbable Claims," available at his Web site, Van Flandern discusses the probabilities of the "Face" formation occurring naturally and concludes that "there is no longer room for reasonable doubt of the artificial origin of the face mesa, and I've never concluded 'no room for reasonable doubt' about anything before in my 35-year scientific career...
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...DONALD B. MCFALL Houston ,Texas I do believe the article by Florence King, supposedly a review of the book, "The Greatest Generation," is actually a personal attack on Tom Brokaw and was the most scurrilous and harsh attack I have ever read on a person as notable as Tom Brokaw...
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...Newt caved, as he had done countless times before, beginning the 95th day after taking the House from the Democrats...
...HARRY BROWNE Franklin, Tennessee (Harry Browne was the 1996 Libertarian presidential candidate...
...The most important of those is testing a model's predictions, the success of which is unlikely to happen by chance, and the failure of which will definitely falsify the idea...
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...The question is simply this: What facts would be orphaned, or deprived of an explanation, without relativity theory...
...Francis Everitt, the director of Stanford's experimental test of general relativity due for space launch next year, has similarly emphasized the contrasting status of the two theories...
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...If he still refused he could have been cited for contempt...
...Brokaw feels a tinge of guilt in 1999, just as Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Trent Lott, George Will, and probably your own editors must, for not having done their part...
...After all, the vast majority of men arrested for felonies test positive for drug use...
...His argument seems to be that such a result is unthinkable on its face, and therefore discredits anyone associated with it...
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...And how willing they are to take the word of their enemies and run with it...
...Bowman states that Elia Kazan's naming of Communists was "grandstanding and was certainly gratuitous...
...I agree that Kazan was on the right side and those he informed on were on the wrong side...
...No less an authority than Edward Teller, although a very close friend of the late Petr Beckmann, said in his eulogy (and I'm paraphrasing)—I am as certain as I can be of anything that Petr has been in error about Einstein's theory...
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...with general relativity you need Riemmanian geometry and tensor calculus to arrive at an approximation...
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...A professor at MIT derived it in 1908, without relativity...
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...Every day since he was freed I have sent Bonior and the Ethics Committee an email demanding that they return Newt's $300,000 + interest and place an apology in the Congressional Record...
...King has obviously forgotten how the Selective Service System worked for those born in 1940, such as Mr...
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...Rethinking Relativity Tom Bethell, in his column deriding "relativistic rigmarole," relies heavily on the work of physicist Tom Van Flandern ("Rethinking Relativity," TAS, April 1999...
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...Brokaw certainly had a "war of his time," but, for one reason or another, he was able to avoid it...
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...He implies that we have some good reason to support the default belief that artifacts do not exist on other nearby planets...
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...But somehow all these add-ons are supposed to make us feel that behind the curtain space and time are still absolute...
...Only a handful of physicists specialize in relativity...
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...PETE SKURKISS Chester Township, New Jersey Grover Norquist in "Winner Takes All" says the 2000 election could be "the most important in a generation!' Whether the Republicans or Democrats triumph could affect the future of all three branches of the federal government...
...It makes me cringe recalling the hypocritical Democrats' hate-mongering calls for Newt's resignation and their devout devotion to a traitor in the Oval Office...
...Martin Gardner's book The Relativity Explosion is highly recommended for all readers...
...there are some problems reconciling relativity, the mathematics of the very fast, with quantum mechanics, the mathematics of the very small...
...As yet, there's no way to accurately describe the behavior of extremely tiny, extraordinarily fast objects, and gravity is still somewhat of a mystery...
...After adjusting for inflation (which was much higher during the 1980's) government still grew by 2.7 percent a year under Ronald Reagan, and only 0.7 percent a year under Clinton...
...No, there are things it doesn't explain, and you identified several...
...This is doubtful...
...One is tempted to ask how David Bonior et al...
...The party is growing so fast that next year it will most likely be advertising specific proposals to reduce government to its Constitutional limits, to repeal the income tax, to privatize Social Security completely and immediately, to end the insane War on Drugs...
...The likes of" Wittman (to use his dismissive phrase) are apt to see conspiracy theories everywhere, I'm afraid...
...The Republicans controlled the House when the Ethics Committee socked him with that $300K fine...
...She further says that he attempts "to atone for his ambivalent chronology by identifying with the first generation he can remember...
...That often happens whether the idea is right or wrong...
...This is a mean, vindictive person who lets it all hang out in this article of total criticism...
...While I might tolerate your frequent insinuations that the American people are ignorant, inconsistent, and "hypocritical," I bristle at the notion that we are "Clintonian...
...argue that it was 'private' and did not 'threaten our constitutional system.'" Some among your readers might have supposed that Mr...
...In my humble opinion, if the GOP ever gets serious about winning, the party could do a lot worse than have Grover Norquist as its grand strategist...
...Not being really familiar with the word "misanthrope" I looked it up in the dictionary and there it was, "one who hates or distrusts his fellow man...
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...KEN MITCHELL via the Internet Tom Bethell quips in his latest article on Einstein that "space and time have been subordinated to velocity...
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...Bethell's low opinion of the ability of laymen to grasp the curvature of space-time: My 68-year-old mother had no problem when I told her to imagine the solar system as a flat rubber The American Spectator Jun e 1999 77 surface, puckered in the middle by a heavy pool ball, with several smaller balls traveling in natural paths around it, guided by the curvature of the surface as it was defined by the central ball's weight...
...Light rays emitted by a distant star first leave the dense gravitational field of that star (the gravity slows the light down a bit), then in the more rarefied aether of outer space the light gets up to full speed...
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...But nothing like that has yet arisen...
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...In other words, light is invariant, period, which is what Einstein assumed...
...Velocity, therefore, is a lowly derivative...
...James Bowman's reply to reader Brian Hogan (Correspondence, TAS, May 1999) is an excellent example...
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...Some background: In 1976 and 1998, NASA spacecraft photographed a mile-long rock formation on Mars that, when the light is right, gives the impression of a vaguely ape-like face...
...To be sure, the rubber sheet that holds a heavy ball is easy to visualize, but this is still metaphorical light years away from "curved space-time...
...Sure...
...Would that this were so...
...Kazan was asked to testify because his name had been mentioned...
...Edward Teller referred to it at the banquet as a "pleasing assumption...
...A light-carrying medium that becomes more attenuated as the distance from celestial objects increases is easy to grasp, on the other hand...
...Readers intrigued by Van Flandern's views might want to visit his web-site (www.metaresearch.org), where they can learn more about his dissident scientific theories...
...I don't know Florence King, but I think I know Tom Brokaw, and I can assure you Florence King is no Tom Brokaw...
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...Of course, deferments were granted in the mid-sixties to those attending college on a full-time basis and for those who were married, as well as for other reasons such as physical or mental problems...
...One is "discrediting by association," and Mr...
...But I'll make this prediction: When a theory is developed that accurately describes the behavior of matter and energy under such extreme conditions, we'll discover that under "normal" conditions it will turn out that the additional factors will turn out to produce a negligible difference from Newtonian, or Einsteinian, results...
...Petr Beckmann's supposition that light is invariantwith respect to the "local" gravitational field raises a number of questions...
...Kazan "ordered" by the committee to take out that full page ad in the New York Times to celebrate his own role as informer...
...That is what I mean by "grandstanding...
...In fact, it is not clear from his remarks that he actually read my article...
...More than one physicist came close, and it was "in the air," as Edward Teller said...
...The Sociopath-in-Chief has collected millions in his legal defense fund and Newt had to pay out of his own pocket...
...As seen from an observer on the Earth's surface, the wave front of the light will also change direction slightly, just as all wave fronts do when the 78 June 1999 • The American Spectator density of the wave-carrying medium changes...
...Its opposite is the "unscientific method," which has its own rules...
...If the Libertarians get io percent to 15 percent of the presidential vote, politics will never be The American Spectator • Jun e 19 9 9 75 the same in America...
...Newt is the Richard Jewell of politics...
...Brokaw deserve better...
...In his interview with me, Teller said: "General relativity can be questioned...
...So how can we pay attention to anything else such a person might have to say...
...Beats informing us on all the latest cave-ins by congressional Republicans...
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...What we do with our clocks and rulers and rocket ships after that is up to us—we can be as simple or confusing as we like...
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...Faced with that competition, are the cartels of today all going to look at each other, say "Caramba...
...Actually, they might not be so alien after all, because Van Flandern believes we may be their direct descendants...
...Brokaw would have been eligible to be drafted until 1966...
...Certainly not (as so many writers imply) the transformation of mass into energy...
...You don't need any more assumptions than that...
...As a dissident scientist, I had to ask myself long ago about the arrogance of anyone challenging the world experts about anything, especially when most such challenges are not only wrong, but ill-founded as well...
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...They were probably poor and underprivileged blacks and whites, and God only knows what happened to those replacements for Brokaw and the others...
...But under "normal" conditions, we describe the world in Newtonian terms...
...What an injustice...
...You don't need to get into relativity to know this...
...Space and time are subordinated to velocity, the velocity of communication, which travels at the same limited speed as light...
...Special relativity is as firmly established as Euclid's geometry...
...CHARLES KALINA Rockville, Maryland If It Ain't Brokaw I read with interest Florence King's review of Tom Brokaw's book The Greatest Generation in the April edition of The American Spectator...
...He supposes that "following the destruction of their primary world, Body C, at 3.2 [million years ago), this species would have been forced to choose between attempting to survive on explosion-torn, atmosphere-stripped Mars, or long-distance relocation to the most habitable of the remaining planets, Earth...
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...Einstein was justly famous for that paper as well, but I don't hear anyone complaining about it when they watch the nightly news or movie of the week on their television sets — conveniences that would not be possible without it...
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...Bethell and I have enjoyed a spirited debate on Einstein over the recent months...
...You can imagine a two-dimensional thing being curved, into a third, he said, but it is impossible to imagine three-dimensional space as curved...
...At age 18, he, and others like him, were required to register for the draft...
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...it flies in the face of the two and only two principles you need from SRT: that the speed of light in vacuo is invariant and that the laws of physics hold for all inertial frames...
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...Teller's remarks at the 1993 banquet in honor of Beckmann, in Oakland, California...
...for those who did, I direct their attention to a recent edition of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review [147 U. Pa...
...Will a Republican president appoint more Earl Warrens, Sandra O'Connors, and David Souters...
...This is intriguing because the first appearance of hominids on Earth also dates to just about the time of this last explosion...
...Not likely...
...Not a bad way to picture how the solar system runs, and it makes do without unseen "forces...
...He added: "If that should turn out to be wrong somehow, I can imagine it...
...It might yet turn out to be a high probability if extraterrestrials have already explored the galaxy and left artifacts on almost all terrestrial-type planets...
...In With the Newt Thank you for Byron York's article concerning Newt Gingrich's vindication on ethics charges ("Never Mind, Newt," TAS, April 1999...
...He says the new president will appoint the Supreme Court judges that will affect our future...
...But my purpose here is not to question Einstein's priority, nor, heaven forbid, his genius...
...He says it matters who wins the presidency...
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...Einstein came up with the mathematics of this unimaginable thing...
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...Any valid criticism would have to be that the tests were inappropriate or not well-enough controlled, and therefore the test results were in some way unreliable...
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...During his brief Academv Awards appearance Kazan seemed like a feeble old man, flanked on stage by actor Robert De Niro, whose face showed the strain of facing the largely hostile Hollywood audience...
...Newt is now considered to be vindicated and we all feel that the "mean-spirited" Democrats owe him an apology...
...He should have said "some physicists...
...Tom Van Flandern's theory may require reconsideration of SRT (special relativity theory), the way that SRT required a reconsideration of Newton, but I don't see how it "undermines" it, if the essential proposition remains the same —i.e., that the speed of light in vacuo is invariant...
...They took a relativity course while working toward their graduate degree, and at that time they learned the mathematical operations that were required to pass the course...
...She stated that Brokaw was "Born m 1940, too young to be a Depression baby, too old to be a Boomer, member of a generation with no name, rank, or serial number who was the wrong age for every war of his time...
...However, in discussing alternative strategy, he disappoints in reiterating the old "government drugstore" plan...
...Elia Kazan's testimony was an act of courage...
...Getting Away With Murder In your April issue's symposium on impeachment, Daniel E. Troy writes that, even if Bill Clinton were to murder someone, "respected 'scholars' would...
...I was interested to hear, nonetheless, that "most physicists readily acknowledge that there are problems...within the relativistic model...
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...TVF Ken Mitchell mainly restates the conventional wisdom about the relationship between Newtonian and relativistic physics, with very little regard to what I wrote...
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...The culminating jewel in your crown of idiocy is your argument that, "On balance, drugs are probably not as big a threat...as food...
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...just fold their tents and slip away...
...Like you, I was very disappointed that not one Republican got up and said I told you so...
...Tom Brokaw did...
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...Because physicists "admire complexity, and cling 76 June 1999 • The American Spectator to it," as he says...
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...Newtonian physics "works...
...It does take getting used to, but then, so does understanding DNA and the double-helix—indeed most subjects in biology which I for one find much more messy and complicated...
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...I don't know whether the alleged "speed of gravity" problem will undermine special relativity, as Bethell and Van Flandern believe...
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...But still, to read of the boldness of Democratic corruption and its pervasiveness month after month can get one down...
...it's just a way to explain what we observe...
...Such a principle ought to be repugnant to those who, unlike Kazan himself, call themselves conservatives...
...It seems obvious that Mr...
...Through an incomprehensible line of reasoning, it is concluded that because the United States is a large market for illicit drugs, every American citizen who wishes to pursue the war on drugs is a hypocrite...
...He wrote: Jack Wittman argues (my version): We do not need to consider the merit of the ideas on the speed of gravity because they were contributed to by someone who advocates something else that we can be certain is wrong...
...It is not at all safe to assume that E=mc2 would not have been discovered without relativity...
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...First, you contend that legalization would make "a tidy profit" for the govern74 June r9 9 9 • The American Spectator ment, which would presumably take on the morally benign mantle of selling cocaine to the general populace...
...I strongly doubt those of us who advocate illegality are the same people who use crack cocaine...
...As to Dr...
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...AIKEN Indianapolis, Indiana I was left thoroughly appalled by the article "Call Off the Drug War" (TAS, April 1999...
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...Try this: According to Van Flandern, there once was a "Planet V" that had two moons—Mars and "Body C." Planet V exploded 65 million years ago, and a civilization either survived the calamity or later evolved on Body C. Some members of this race apparently went to Mars and built the "Face" and other objects so that the structures would be visible from Body C. There were more fireworks when Body C exploded 3.2 million years ago and caused severe damage to Mars, Van Flandern says...
...Bethell describes is in no way simpler...
...And then, I noticed in the side note of the article that Ms...
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...They admire complexity and cling to it," I added...
...I have written extensively about scientific method in my book, Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets...
...This is something that Isaac Newton assumed, by the way, for convenience...
...Perhaps Mr...
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...Ultimately, the way to be sure that an idea is worth pursuing is strict adherence to the rules of scientific method...
...Lastly, with respect to Mr...
...I am told by those working on these problems today that the use of Fermat's Principle, as an explanation of the bending of light rays near the sun, yields the same answers as general relativity's "curved space time," in which light follows the path of what is called "zero proper time...
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...Still, my hat's off to Mr...
...And yet in relativity theory, the speed of light is accorded divine status, so that space and time themselves (the alpha and omega of physics) must bend at the knee, forever groveling and adjusting themselves to make sure that the great god c, the speed of light, is eternally unchanged, neither diminished nor exceeded by mortal matter...
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...As you note, in the realm of the sub-atomically small, even relativity seems to break down...
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...The truth is that "most physicists" don't know very much about relativity at all...
...I'm glad that John Farrell was amused by my "quip" about space and time being subordinated to velocity...
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...Cranks everywhere have seized on the "Face" and nearby pyramidal mounds (which they call the "City") as proof that Mars was once inhabited by a race of intelligent beings...
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