Einstein
Forever
Below
is a letter to the editors
of Sky and Telescope
sent by the undersigned soon after the article referred to was
published. The letter was not published or even acknowledged, nor
were any published concerning the article by other writers, pro or
con. Were the editors aware of and embarrassed by the unwarranted
speculation from an excellent review article?
Dear Editors,
Maybe I missed
something, but the article on pgs. 32f. in the July 2005
issue struck me as a strong affirmation of the correctness of
Einstein's general theory of relativity. Not a shred of negative
experimental evidence is presented, only "mights" or "coulds" for
future experiments. And where are the predictions from "quantum
gravity" theories of the phenomena these experiments will address
? The author's tone in the article and that in the editorial
article in the same issue remind me of "OK, the world didn't end in
2000, but it might in 2010."
Yours,
Philip Steffey
(Remark:
Feb. 2007)
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