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

Anyone desiring to judge for themselves can get a free pdf:
https://epdf.pub/the-einstein-hoax-the-disastrous-intellectual-war-on-common-s

ense.html

It has 16 chapters without the appendixes.

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Cowardly evasions.
YOU claimed something, it is up to YOU
to make it at least a bit plausible,
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Jan

If it's not possible to prove space is not curved, then relativity is an
unfalsifiable theory.
For space to be curved, parallel lines in a plane surface would have to
meet without that surface becoming three-dimensional. Therefore, curved
space is impossible nonsense. Curved space is a case of the reification
fallacy.