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From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: The realm of physics, and the late Immanuel Velikovsky
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 04:51:26 EST
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Ted said:
> >        Robert Bass is a former Rhodes scholar who ...
> >     settled once and for all the whole question of whether
> >   Velikovsky's scenarios were "physically possible".
> 
> "Goody" Grady to the attack:
>  The consensus seems to be that only given some extremely
> unlikely initial conditions is it possible (barely) to make it work.
> Velikovsky himself, of course, didn't bother with working out the
> physics of the process.  He just said it was so, and that was that.

Yep! it seems so.     .. ..  dang blast it all!

           Ah, the frustration of being mere physicist,  when
               it seems "prophet" is what I need be.
              Surely profit is what our country needs!
                                                 I. Velisolly	
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