Re: Tom Van Flandern's book aninymously criticizing relativity while he was alive.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 8:31:59 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:32:43 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
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LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:37:08 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
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LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:36:39 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
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Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> wrote:
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On 15/06/2025 09:25, J. J. Lodder wrote:

LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:00:42 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
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"AI: "The Einstein Hoax: The Disastrous Intellectual War on Common
Sense" is a book by Tom Van Flandern that critiques Albert
Einstein's theories, particularly relativity."
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It is published under the pen name H. E. Retic, as explained in the
About the Author section, where he describes Van Flandern's career.

Reading it I find that it certainly seems like it must be Van
Flandern's and it's copyright 1997.

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Do you have verifiable evidence
for H. E. Retic being Tom van Flandern?

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I wouldn't want to lose you (am I wrong?), but could you please
stop feeding the spammers?

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The book: "The Einstein Hoax: The Disastrous Intellectual War on Common
Sense" by H. E. Retic obviously exists.
(you can order it on Amazon for example,
 but I won't spend real money on it)
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So I would like to see the About the Author section,
to see if the claim that he is Van Flandern is justified.
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One never knows, even LaurenceClarkCrossen may provide
some useful information, once in a while,
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Jan
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BTW, Van Flandern admitted later on that his anti-relativity claims
based on Voyager data didn't hold water.
There has been a lot of discussion on it in the other SPR,
when that group still had worthwhile content.

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"About the Author...retired Mechanical Engineer who graduated from
Cornell University in 1948...designed and built the stable platform of
the inertial guidance system used in the X-15 aircraft...designed for
sale to the Navy  the first Low-Light level Television System capable of
operating from full daylight to the photon noise limit threshold without
picture degradation...a goal that the Night Vision Laboratory at Ft.
Belvoir had declared impossible...holds over 25 patents and in one year
was granted 10% of the patents issued to a major military
contractor...began to study gravitation in the mid 1960's..."

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Thanks. And OK, that settles it.
This 'H. E. Retic' is definitely not Tom Van Flandern.
Just another dime a dozen dumb engineer.
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Why is it that some of those engineers think
that they know everything about everything,
which qualifies them to disprove any scientific theory they don't like,
like evolution or relativity?
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Jan

As usual you give no good reason for your opinion.

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I did. Comparison of the Author description
with the wikiparticle on Tom Van Flandern
makes it obvious that the two don't fit together,
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Jan

"Chapter 9 - Dr. Einstein's Error and the Introduction of Curved Space
9.1- Where did Dr. Einstein go wrong? -

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[snip crackpot material]
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You avoid the question. Relativity nutters are a dime a dozen.
Quoting anti-Einstein material doesn't prove
that the author must be Tom Van Flandern.
(who wasn't just another crackpot btw)
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Jan

Relativistic nutters never answer the criticisms.
"One must remember the comment made in a meeting in which General
Relativity was evaluated,
"why shouldn't we consider space to be curved, nobody can prove that it
isn't". The author finds it difficult to differentiate Dr. Einstein's
use of curved space to allow him to complete his derivation of General
Relativity from the actions of a mechanic who installs the wrong part
into a machine by hammering it into place." - The Einstein Hoax" book
pdf.