Re: Time dilation and expanding space


"Steve Willner" <willner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
See Cosmology for Beginners: Inflation for Beginners by John Gribbin

If this is the same John Gribbin who wrote _The Jupiter Effect_, I
would be very cautious about anything he writes.


In 1974, John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann published The Jupiter Effect, a
book predicting that an alignment of the planets would create a number of
catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in 1982.
The predicted catastrophes did not occur, as the gravitational effect of the
other planets on the Earth's crust is minimal even at their closest
approach. In his 1999 book "The Little Book of Science," Dr. Gribbin said of
his theory "...I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with
it."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_effect

John Gribbin has been mainstream science for a long time now.
But one must be cautious. Interestingly, most scientists go weird at the
end of their careers eg Heisenberg, Schrodinger etc etc.

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Kind Regards
Robert Karl Stonjek


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