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- From: sbradley@scic.intel.com (Seth Bradley)
- Subject: Re: Questions for Ted H.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.165927.8278@scic.intel.com>
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- References: <118@fedfil.UUCP> <722480012@sheol.UUCP> <schnitzi.722532958@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:59:27 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <schnitzi.722532958@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
- >throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
- >>: From: news@fedfil.UUCP (news) (Ted Holden)
- >>: Message-ID: <117@fedfil.UUCP>
- >>: Albert Einstein was a friend of Velikovskys from the old Prussian Scientific
- >>: Academy, and is known to have spent the last ten years or so of his life
- >>: working on a unified field theory, a shot at explaining all natural forces
- >>: in common terms. He is also known to have died with a copy of Worlds in
- >>: Collision open on his desk.
- >
- >>Irrelevant.
- >
- >More than just irrelevant -- this seems to be a blatant attempt to lend
- >Velikovsky some credibility by associating him with Einstein without any
- >mention of Einstein's opinion of his work. I would be curious to know the
- >context in which Ted wrote this paragraph.
-
- Looks like its time to repost this. Its yet another example where Ted
- continues to claim something despite its being well refuted (with references):
-
- ----------------
- From: prl@iis.ethz.ch (Peter Lamb)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Mammoths
- Date: 23 Sep 91 18:46:46 GMT
-
- [ Stuff about mammoths deleted ]
-
- Sullivan[1]p37 also quotes an interview by Cohen[2], with Einstein,
- regarding "Worlds in Collision":
- "`You know', he [Einstein] said to me, `it's not a bad book. No, it
- really isn't a bad book. The only trouble is, it is crazy.' This was
- followed by a loud burst of laughter."
-
- Peter Lamb (prl@iis.ethz.ch)
-
- [1] Sullivan, W, "Continents in Motion", ed 2, Chapter 3, "Colliding
- Worlds and other Catastrophes", American Institute of Physics, 1991.
-
- [2] Cohen, I. B, "An interview with Einstein", Scientific American,
- vol. 193 (July, 1955), pp68-73.
-
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