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Aunc.1716 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb 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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