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RefNoTG/1/3/519
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TitleLetter from Thomas Gold to Dr Donald Menzel, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date27 October 1966
DescriptionSays that 'I am sure that the note on the efficiency is basically correct and I am also sure that a more detailed discussion will not change the results very much ... A more detailed discussion of the problem certainly requires an analysis of all the longitudinal and the transverse modes of propagation that occur in the vicinity of a surface in practice in the presence of a stratification of density and velocity of sound. It is possible that such a treatment exists in the literature but I have not found it'. There is obviously no hope of us puzzling all this out right away now. I am therefore in favor of going ahead with what you sent me'.
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FormatCarbon copy
AccessStatusOpen
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