RefNoTG/1/13/283
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Thomas Gold to Sir Fred Hoyle, Cockley Moor, Cumberland, CA11 0LG, England
Date6 December 1976
DescriptionThey will all be delighted to have him here in March.

Asks if he is interested in another idea for science fiction - suggests masers in space, that amplify without significant distortion of phase-front or time-resolution; signal through them with a telelphone-like bandwidth; focus from a number of spacecraft so the amplified beam converges on the enemy and burns them up; all kinds of other tricks if you happen to live in such a region of space.

Asks if he noted that Ms Jocelyn B(urn)ell is indeed the after dinner speaker at the next Texas Symposium, as requested in Gold's after dinner speech at the last one. They will see wht she has to say.
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