Theo Theocharis introduced himself to me with the following email (edited June 2001 to correct email address):
From: Theocharis Theocharis <theotheocharis@ic4life.net>
To: Caroline Thompson
Subject: Dissident Physics
Date: Saturday, August 12, 2000 12:59 AM
Dear Caroline Thompson,I reached your site from:
http://guest.btinternet.com/~sapere.aude/index.html/
(In its very long "Directory of Dissident Physicists", your name and address is two lines below mine.)I have been pleasantly surprised by the extent our agreement on fundamental physics. I have been into the tormenting business of dissident physics since 1977, but I am new on the internet and I have not yet succeeded in having anything in physics posted on the www. But I have also been into the (not much less painstaking) business of dissident philosophy (of science) since 1977, and on this field I do have some material on the internet:
http://www2.bravenet.com/guestbook/show.asp?usernum=400430128
which you can also reach from:
http://members.tripod.com/ScienceWars/LETTER in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, February 1999, Volume 46, Number 2; on:
http://www.ams.org/notices/199902/commentary.pdf"Holistic Therapies" on:
http://www.thelancet.com/cgi-bin/newlancet/any/pg_discuss.cgihttp://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1997/june/let3_970609.html
The following are some of my (by now) ancient publications in physics:
"Men of Ideas", The Listener, 4 May 1978;
"What Is An Electron?", Wireless World, Vol. 85, pp. 71-72, October 1979;
"Principles of Mechanics", THES, 23 January 1981;
"Is Light Velocity A Constant?", Wireless World, Vol. 87, p. 58, May 1981;
"Science and Society", Wireless World, Vol. 87, No. 1546, p. 52, July 1981;
"Planetary Motion", Physics Education, Vol. 17, No. 4, p. 148-149, July 1982;
"On Maxwell’s Ether", Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 325-332, 12 Marzo 1983;
"Does the Earth Really Move?", Indian Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 61-74, 1985;
"How to Test Special Relativity", Nature, Vol. 319, p. 269, 23 January 1986;
"How to Test Special Relativity", Nature, Vol. 32I, p. 734, 19 June 1986
"Trash Pushers", Electronics & Wireless World, Vol. 91, p. 23, July 1986;
"Electromagnetic Waves and the Ether", Electronics & Power, Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 789-90, November/December 1986;
"… To See It As It Is …", American Journal of Physics, Vol. 54, No. 11, p. 969, November 1986;
"Tercentenary of Newton’s Principia", Electronics & Wireless World, Vol. 93, No. 1618, p. 842, August 1987;
"Does the Earth Really Move?", Nature, Vol. 341, p. 100, 14 September 1989;
"Diurnal Terrestrial Aberration of Light", Speculations in Science and Technology, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 72-76, 1992;
"Etheric Effect", New Scientist, p. 52, 31 October 1992;
"Problems With Galileo", Nature, Vol. 363, p. 108, 13 May 1993;I could send you photocopies of these, if you want them.
In my long (and bitter) experience, it is pointless (and a waste of time and effort) writing frank and truthful Letters to magazines such like New Scientist and Physics World, trying (in vain) to "persuade them to change their tone". They have always been receiving a very large number of such Letters, but they never publish them or change their tone. (I developed other strategies with which on a few occasions I successfully tricked them to publish my submissions. In one case in 1987-8 I had a substantial success with "Where Science Has Gone Wrong" (Nature 1987; 329: 595-598; Nature, 1988; 333: 389).) But you could now try to publish a truthful Letter in Electronics World (formerly Electronics & Wireless World). If you look up the current issue, there is a good article by Al Kelly.
Theo Theocharis
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