| Description | They were very sorry to hear of all his troubles with pneumonia, anaemia and fractured vertebrae, but Gold sees from his letter that all this trouble is not getting him under. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Thanks him for the Feiss correspondence. Menzel was of course quite correct in stressing that mere reverence to gravity is not enough for a transportation process, since a mountain of dust would remain a mountain of dust for all eternity if only gravity was acting on it. States there has been a lot of discussion of all the ways in which things might get transported, and heating and cooling was thought of by everyone at the very beginning. When worked out, however, it is hopelessly inadequate. Gold has heard one other good geologist say that he was most surprised that no clear lava flows, flow fronts and ridges and out crops could be found on the Moon, and that really this made him wonder whether there wasn't something basically wrong with the conventional viewpoint. He was a famous geologist invited to attend a lunar meeting, but a person who had not otherwise taken part in lunar work. Gold cannot remember his name. Other than that, however, Gold considers the geologic scene in relation to the Moon very bleak. All inconvenient evidence is being trampled over, and the socialogical problem of arriving at a consensus of opinion is uppermost in people's minds, rather than the search for truth. Gold will shortly send him another pre-print which shows clearly why the Moon is so dark.
Sends best wishes and belated greetings, also from Carrie. |