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- From: ucap22w@ucl.ac.uk (Martin S T Watts)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: energy, mass, and all that
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.152453.8298@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:24:53 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> <Nov.16.19.30.50.1992.23673@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Not that I know of - that was indeed the Bondi that I meant.
-
- >I agree that Martin seems to be unwilling to actually explain himself
- >or Bondi, or do anything other than insult American librarians, in fact.
-
- Oh, come off it - have you Yanks got no sense of irony? And, if you've read
- any of his writing, you'll know that Hermann Bondi if sufficiently articulate
- to make paraphrasing him rather a daunting task, especially when his writings
- on SR are so widely available. And no-one has so far asked me to do anything
- other than that. From what *you've* said, Benjamin, it seems as if you
- probably know what he's getting at in any case.
-
- Scott Chase seems in need of doing some background reading, however.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Martin Watts.
-