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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: atomic simulation software ...
Message-ID: <7807@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 30 Apr 88 16:18:37 GMT
References: <203@heurikon.UUCP> <4864@cup.portal.com> <6567@lll-winken.llnl.gov> <14715@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> <4949@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <4949@cup.portal.com> doug-merritt@cup.portal.com writes:
>In the book "Information Mechanics", the author (Kantor) does in
>fact calculate, among other things, the mass of the electron. He
>uses hybrid methods derived from information theory. I asked about
>a year ago without any firm response: is Kantor's work now mainstream,
>discredited, or what? The book is about ten years old.

Unless his computation of the mass of the electron is merely a
special case of a more general method for calculating all lepton
masses, the book discredits itself.  There was some excuse for
this kind of thing in Eddington's day, because they didn't know
of the vast spectrum of elementary particles.  There is no excuse
for it in modern times.