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Excerpts from netnews.sci.physics: 6-Oct-92 TIME HAS INERTIA, ALTERING
.. by Alexander Abian@iastate. 
> From: abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian)
> Subject: TIME HAS INERTIA, ALTERING THE ORBIT OF VENUS AND THE TILT OF EARTH
> Date: 6 Oct 92 17:36:10 GMT
>  
>    I received many anonymous telephone calls in strong and fervid support 
                     ^^^^^^^^^  Do I really care?
> of my proposals: (i) TIME HAS INERTIA and the rejection of the Principles of
> Conservation of Energy and Constancy of the Speed of Light,  (ii) PUTTING 
> VENUS IN AN ORBIT SIMILAR TO THE ORBIT OF THE EARTH, (iii) ALTERING THE 
> TILT OF THE EARTH to avert meteorological disasters and pernicious epidemics.

Some of these ideas have a strong stench of the influence of Velikovski's.

>    The callers feel that the current explanations of the nature of TIME 
> (various variations on the Space-Time Riemannian Manifold-themes) are total-
> ly  unconvincing and unsound.  They feel that my proposals are sound, con-
> vincing, cogent and realistic.
>  
>    The anonymity of the callers is understandable.  Association with 
> radically bold and dauntless ideas is very often treated as an act of
> recusancy (recall that Copernicus, Galileo and many others were silenced
> and subject to a great deal of hardship for their bold and intrepid ideas).

Big brother *IS NOT* watching you (or your friends...)

>   I do not expect from anyone any heroic action on my behalf, however, 
> I would like to encourage those  who find my proposals to their liking
> to express their feelings and rely on the openmindedness of the others.
>  
>                                                  Alexander ABIAN

Imagine that...  Public-opinion polls to do science.  Let me then go one step
further and propose media-directed science!  (NOT!!!)  :-)

I absolutely don't care how many people THINK whether you're right or wrong
(named or anonymous), or how the public FEELS about your "radically bold"
ideas.  If you can back up your ideas, then and only then do you have sound,
CONVINCING, cogent and realistic proposals.  That is why there are
specialized-field refereed periodicals.  If you can convince the referees,
your proposals have a future; otherwise, your ideas fall in the category of
perpetual motion engines.  Live with it.

Bruno.  br0w+@andrew.cmu.edu