| Title | Letter from Thomas Gold to Professor Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRS, Chief Scientist, De[partment of Energy, Thames House South, Millbank, London, SW1P 4QJ, England |
| Description | Seems that Gold's lecture at Imperial College had good effects, and he has received a lot of intelligent and highly favourable mail as a result of the New Scientist adnd BBC interview 'The idea is the Occam's razor of geoscience'. They will now intrument a lot of places for sniffing, pressure monitoring in the ground etc. Suggests the Caledonian Canal or other major faults in Britain should be instrumented also. The global atmospheric CH4 may have varied by a lorge amount in the last five years and this will be checked out. If true, tectonic effects should be suspected, since the number of cows burping has not changed much.
States he might be interested in the enclosed article by Lynden-Bell and Gold's rejoinder. His story, though complicated, says nothing other than that an inaccurate specification of conditions will result inf an even more inaccurate knowledge of the result.
Postscript: States he has received the travel reimbursements, with thanks. |