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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Subject: Mr. Dolphin, SRI, and the Speed of Light
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.192310.8236@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:23:10 GMT
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- I recently received a query for information about a supposed "Invited
- Research Report", of which I have seen only the title page. It bears
- the imprint of "SRI International" in Menlo Park, CA. Its title is
- "The Atomic Constants, Light, and Time" by Trevor Norman and Barry
- Setterfield, Flinders University of South Australia School of
- Mathematical Sciences, Technical Report. Prepared for: Lambert T.
- Dolphin, Senior Research Physicist, Geoscience and Engineering Center,
- Stanford Research Institute International.
-
- Can anybody shed any light on this? Is this supposed report something
- real, or possibly a hoax? I know that Barry Setterfield is an Australian
- creationist, who claims that the speed of light was infinite during
- Creation Week, but began to slow down after the Fall of Man (you know how
- it is, everything started to degrade). I don't know who Trevor Norman
- is, but I'd assume he's another creationist. I know that Flinders
- University is a "real" university; do these characters teach there?
- And who is this Lambert T. Dolphin? Is he really a "Senior Research
- Physicist" in Geoscience at SRI? Who knows anything about this?
-
- --
-
- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
-
- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
-
- "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
- broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
- where it will end."
- - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
-