Re: Solar sailing vs. laws of physics ?

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 20:08:00 MDT

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    At 10:38 AM 7/3/03 -0700, Hal wrote:

    >> http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306050

    >Is this the same Thomas Gold famous for his "deep earth gas" hypothesis?

    Yes, but more relevantly this is the same Tommy Gold who with Bondi, Hoyle
    and others eludicated how the goddamn Sun burns in the first place,
    invented the Steady State theory (too bad, good try though), and was the
    first person to suggest in print that pulsars are spinning neutron stars:

                                  Thomas Gold
                               Biographical Information

    Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell University;
    founder and for 20 years director of Cornell Center for Radiophysics and
    Space Research.

    Fellow, Royal Society (London)
    Member, National Academy of Sciences (US)
    Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Member, American Philosophical Society
    Fellow, American Geophysical Union
    Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
    Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society (UK)
    Doctor of Science, Cambridge University
    Honorary M.A. Harvard University

    Previous employment:
    John L. Wetherill Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University; Chairman,
    Department of Astronomy
    Assistant Vice President for Research, Cornell University
    Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, Harvard University
    Chief Assistant to British Astronomer Royal
    Lecturer in advanced physics, Cambridge University
    Radar development work, British Admiralty during World War II

    280 publications in various fields of science, including cosmology,
    mechanism of mammalian hearing,
    nature of pulsars as rotating neutron stars, aspects of solar system
    research, origin of planetary
    hydrocarbons. For 7 years a member of the President's Space Science Panel
    (US).

    Invited Lectureships:

    Vanuxem Lecture, Princeton University
    Welch Lecture, University of Toronto
    Milne Lecture, Oxford University
    George Darwin Lecture, Royal Astronomical Society, London
    Lindsay Lecture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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    Damien Broderick



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