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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: numerous responses (Ted gives up on lighter gravity issue!)
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 10:13:31 EDT
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Ted Holden writes:
>     If there's any one question we catastrophists get tired of answering, it's
>the whole thing about the laws of physics supposedly denying the POSSIBILITY of
> any of Velikovsky's  scenarios.

     I should think you *would* get tired of trying to square all of the 
contortions V's scenarios require with known physical laws.  One would almost
expect you to give up and claim that these amazing effects were due to the
operation of hitherto unknown and unsuspected physical laws.  
     But maybe I'm being too harsh on Ted.  Even he isn't irrational enough
to suggest something like that.  Or is he?
> 
> >    Well, since no experiment has ever shown any relation between gravity
>>and electromagnetism,and since many types of magnetic field generating systems
> >can reverse their field without affecting the size of the gravity well they
> >produce, I'll have to *guess* that the past reversals of the Earth's
> >magnetic field were unaccompanied by any changes in its gravitational field.
>     
>     That's just  a guess,  Jeff.   Albert Einstein spent the last years of his
>life looking for that very connection (the unified field theory), and died with
> a copy  of "Worlds  in Collision" open on his desk.

    Ever heard of slander laws, Ted?  

>  I have always heard rumors
>that Velikovsky's theories concerning a historical change in the felt effect of
> gravity had something to do with Einstein's interest in this area.  

     Well, there you have it, folks.  He's (apparently) given up on the 'tidal
effects from the immensely larger Saturn sun which the earth orbited closely
about' theory and switched to the 'mysterious unknown forces rumored to have
something to do with unified field theory but which no one knows anything about
or has ever heard of' theory.
     Stay tuned for further developments.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j
    "Now, I don't believe in doing anything half-way, or in watered-down
     versions of ANYTHING." - Ted Holden, noted Veliskovskian.