Asri-unix.514 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!zeppo!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!ucbvax!hpvax!sri-unix!KATZ@USC-ISIF Thu Jan 14 20:36:35 1982 Harry Stein and Physics Please dont believe what Harry Stein says about more abstract physics. There is an excellent rebuttal to this particular article in an issue of analog a few months later written by some graduate student. In particular, the feeling you get from the article that physicists dont really know as much as they pretend to, that there really may be an ether, and that there is lots wrong with relativity is pretty much hogwash. Stein also writes about the Dean drive, an new reactionless drive which is really bizzare and so on. His book, "The Third Industrial Revolution" is quite good, and he has written much about space industrialization which is quite good, however, after the things he writes about physics, or about the dean drive, I wonder how correct his other information is. Alan ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.