From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - NewScientist Article
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:30:25 GMT

crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:

>In article <1992Dec11.024139.12143@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
>>

>>Which groups are these appearing in and are they being saved
>>for posterity?  I would appreciate anyone who could email 
>>me the spoof posts or tell me of an ftp site where
>>they are stored.

>     God forbid.  'Posterity' would think us quite batty.s

With the increasing problems of the OZONE layer,         
Green house effect,  etc - I think posterity has already has made 
its decision.  But Abion does make a nice cherry on the top.

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>     Let's get one thing straight;  Abian is spouting vacuous
>     irrelevancies.  It has nothing to do with 1) nature 2) fate
>     3) coincidence 4) galileo.  His repeated statements, when
>     they even make sense, boil down to 'THINGS CHANGE UNLESS
>     THEY DON'T' (using his idiom).  I think you can see
>     that this is not exactly stunning news.  Crackpots are also
>     not new, but usually they at least have charm enough to 
>     provide physical predictions.

>     Also, he continually misuses the term 'inertia'.

>>Also what was the name of that "CRACKPOT" who suggested in the 
>>1950's that the continents are moving, partly based on how you
>>could fit part of Africa onto South America? like a jigsaw 
>>puzzle?  It is a pity the internet did not exist then
>>because it could have been a pretty good flame-war.

>     There is a difference, Wegener at least had
>     a physical theory that made predictions.  Abian has
>     a bunch of words that have no scientific meaning.
>     (By the way, Wegener died in 1930).

<SIGH>  If only the world would obey my version of history,
he would have lived at least 20 more years.

Though I agree with your above assessment of Abian, what happened to
Wegener is particularly sad and not unique to him.  
With risk of rewriting history again,
he was pretty thoroughly ridiculed because the technology
for determining that the continents (plates) were moving
did not exist at the time.  Was it in the 1950s that they
showed the reversal of the earths magnetic field on sea-floor
rock implying movement of the plates?

Whenever I hear a new theory getting slammed by the mainstream
scientific community, I always think of Wegener's theory
that initially was so thoroughly trampled  which I also
remember was pretty personal against him (even if I forget the name
and get the decade wrong).

What is the most recent theory that got thoroughly
trampled on by almost every mainstream scientist
but was shown to be correct in the end.  The one that
sticks in my mind is Mitchell's Chemi Osmotic Theory to
explain how Mitochondira function.


No flames please -                        
I'm blindly going with the majority view on Albian's attempted theory.


>>
>>I'm sorry if this has come up before but I lost news for 55
>>hours because of a dodgy computer on the other end of the wire.
>>
>>"Stay Cool, Whats going to happen in 55 hours?" I was asked.
>>
>>Nothing, EXCEPT THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY ARE BEING
>>REWRITTEN AND I AM THE LAST TO FIND OUT ABOUT IT!!!!

>      This has been going on for probably 55 days.  I don't
>      see any end to it.

>                             dale bass

This is more proof that sci.chem is ceasing to be a happening
place.  Where are our crackpots and resident loonies?           
Should we take out an anti-monopoly suite
against sci.physics for cornering the market?

DISCLAIMER:- the above statement was an attemp at sarcasm 
and not an invitiation for freelance loonies to invade our sacred
space.

Yo all,  Lachlan.
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