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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: energy, mass, and all that
- Message-ID: <Nov.16.19.30.50.1992.23673@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:30:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov09.192052.25358@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <9NOV199213395569@csa1.lbl.gov> <1992Nov12.201646.31516@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <Nov.16.14.05.56.1992.18657@ruhets.rutgers.edu> <16NOV199213401674@csa3.lbl.gov>
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- sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
- >No, I think it's more than that. I can't remember the details (which
- >is why I tried to find the reference that the original poster quoted),
- >but we've been through this Bondi thing sometime in the past. It may even
- >have been the same poster. .... There
- >are no peer-reviewed papers on his work so far as I can tell. I think
- >that he is the European equivalent of these guys who "publish" abstracts in
- >the APS bulletins and then reference themselves from year to year.
- > ... You will notice that he [Martin] has
- >so far refused to do more than tell us all to look it up. He is incapable
- >of explaining it himself.
-
- Oh. I had thought the "Bondi" in question was Hermann Bondi, the
- cosmologist, who had one or two odd ideas but undoubtedly knew special
- relativity. Maybe there's another Bondi who attempts to capitalize
- on the name. Kind of like when there were three Robert Caseys in
- Pennsylvania politics, and the original one had to run ads calling
- himself "the real Bob Casey" after one of the obscure Bobs nearly got
- elected treasurer. (Apologies to the person named Robert Casey who
- posts to sci.physics, by the way.)
-
- I agree that Martin seems to be unwilling to actually explain himself
- or Bondi, or do anything other than insult American librarians, in fact.
-