The Farce of Physics
Wallace BG
dq...@Prometheus.EarthLink.Net who wrote in reply to my post that
mentioned that I would no longer have the email address of
wal...@eckerd.edu.
Derick wrote:
>What happened? Did you graduate or ..., well, ...?
>
>Just curiously, Bryan, how much physics training have you had?
>I am at present reading your book (interesting reading)...
>I will reserve judgement until I am finished with my second pass
>and commentary, but I have a very difficult time believing your
>claims.
In reply to Derick, on 11 April I received and email letter from
Marisa H. Pfalzgraf pfal...@eckerd.edu with the Subject: Removal
of Your Account. Marisa is the System Administrator of the
Eckerd College Computer System, and she sent carbon copies of the
letter to the Director of the Computer Center Sharon R.
Setterling sett...@eckerd.edu and the Dean of Eckerd College
Lloyd W. Chapin chap...@eckerd.edu. The contents of the letter
are as follows:
>Bryan,
>
>Due to repeated incidents where you have continued to post
>articles to a wide number of newsgroups and the complaints we
>are receiving not only from wide-spread Internet users but also
>from local Eckerd College employees, your privilege of access
>is being revoked. I will be removing your accounts on all
>Eckerd College systems on Tuesday, April 18, 1995. If you need
>any assistance in removing your files, please contact me.
>
>On November 16th, you were warned of the possibility of your
>account being removed due to your posting to 212 newsgroups on
>the net. Since that time, you cross-posted your article "The
>Farce of Physics" on at least two occasions, February 10th to
>25 newsgroups and around April 2 to 14 newsgroups. I have
>received complaints for both incidents.
>
>If you have any questions or comments, you may contact Sharon or
>me.
After I received Marisa's letter I received a free 3.5" HD
Windows software disk and opened a 10 hour free trial
subscription to America Online and was impressed by the fancy
graphics and sounds on my PC home computer. Then I found that
the many hours I had spent for free connected to the Eckerd
Computer would now cost $2.95 per hour which could add up to a
large monthly bill for a retired person without much income!
In the past 2 years I had used the Eckerd Internet connection
to send out over 6000 free email copies of the ASCII 311KB
version of my book "The Farce of Physics" to people all over the
world. Now I find there seems to be no way to send the copies of
the book from my new account, and if I can, it probable will cost
a fair amount per book sent. Next I found that there seems to be
no way to properly crosspost to more than one newgroup on the
Usenet so there is no more than one file per post on any Internet
computer system. I don't want to have people flame me again for
spamming like they did last November, so I'll only post to
sci.physics and put a short pointer message in the 13 other
newsgroups I've been crossposting the "The Farce of Physics"
thread on. I started this thread last November and since then
there has been 305 posts by 131 people.
My book is now archived in many Internet libraries and can be
found by using Gopher and World Wide Web and will be available
from Project Gutenberg archives and on their CDROM's. The free
standard 311KB ASCII version can be obtained by anonymous ftp
from ftp.germany.eu.net in the directory /pub/books/wallace by
using "get farce.txt". The file in the directory is in a
compressed form and called farce.txt.gz but if you leave off the
.gz the system will send you the uncompressed text. Unix
computer systems have a command called "gunzip" that will
uncompress the .gz format. The stats from EU Net show a peek of
2013 copies sent by ftp last November. There are no restrictions
on anyone making electronic or paper copies of my book, and there
are thousands of people who have copies, so the fact that I can
no longer send copies by email should not be much of a problem
for those who can't get them by ftp. A paperback version of the
book for about $5.95 should soon be available and I will post
information on it on this thread. The HTML/World-Wide Web
Hypertext version of the book is available via:
URL:http://www.Germany.EU.net/books/farce/farce.html
With regard to Derick's request for my educational background, I
made up the following bio facts for the publisher of my book:
Name: Bryan G. Wallace
Marital Status: Married 1953, 4 children
Education: High School G.E.D., Technical Degree in
Electronics, U.S. Army 1950
Military Service: U.S. Army, 1948-1952
Work Experience:
1952-1957 - Minor jobs in auto mechanics, electrical
work, and T.V. and radio repair
1957-1965 - Technical Assistant PR-25, General Electric
Pinellas Peninsula Plant
1965-Present - Retired and living on investment income;
research and study in physics
Self educated in physics, retired in 1965 to live on
investment income and devote full time to physics research,
elected each year from 1974 to 1982 to an unpaid official
position of Physics Research Associate at Eckerd College, have
unofficial position of Associate from 1982 to the present time,
was nominated and elected to membership in the American Physical
Society in 1976, in 1992 I was elected to be a member of the
organizing and editorial committee of the March 1994 III
International Conference on Space and Time Problems in Natural
Sciences to be held in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Russia, in 1982
I won Forth prize in Arthur Schawlow's "Instant fame and small
fortune" contest (Physics Today April 1982 page 72), I've
published about 14 papers, 7 letters, and been a participant in
around 18 conferences and meetings, many with published
abstracts, and written 1 book titled "The Farce of Physics".
Bryan
David de Hilster
wall...@aol.com writes:
>>Bryan,
>>
>>Due to repeated incidents where you have continued to post
>>articles to a wide number of newsgroups and the complaints we
>>are receiving not only from wide-spread Internet users but also
>>from local Eckerd College employees, your privilege of access
>>is being revoked. I will be removing your accounts on all
Are we living in the dark ages? What is going on out there? This smacks
exactly
of what Bryan talks about in his book.
This has to be the irony of all ironies.
-David de Hilster
Conrad
>In article <3nble8$d...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Wallace BG,
>wall...@aol.com writes:
>>>Bryan,
>>>
>>>Due to repeated incidents where you have continued to post
>>>articles to a wide number of newsgroups and the complaints we
>>>are receiving not only from wide-spread Internet users but also
>>>from local Eckerd College employees, your privilege of access
>>>is being revoked. I will be removing your accounts on all
>Are we living in the dark ages? What is going on out there? This smacks
>exactly of what Bryan talks about in his book.
>This has to be the irony of all ironies.
Mr. Wallace extensive posts violated netiquette. The rules for posting
to newsgroups are easily available. He did not follow them, he was
warned that he should follow them, and he continued to violate the
rules. He was not punished because of the content of any of his
posts.
He has since obtained access via a commercial provider, where he has
to pay the going rate for access to the net. All he lost has his
free access via Eckard. Now if he chooses to violate netiquette,
a portion of the cost also comes out of his pocket. I don't see
anything wrong with this.
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David M. Cook
David de Hilster <david.d...@trw.com> wrote:
>Are we living in the dark ages? What is going on out there? This smacks
>exactly of what Bryan talks about in his book. [...]
He was kicked off for spamming, not for scientific apostasy. I suspect
that most of the people who complained couldn't give a rat's ass about
the scientific issues BW was writing about.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I was not aware that his spamming was that bad
that it justified yanking his account. I think they may have been a
little too harsh.
Dave Cook