> Who can now summarise or name the 'theory' that was replaced by "Plate
> Tectonics", within the adult [tm] lifetime of many on this list?

Continental drift. Yup, I'm that old.

Jack

On 3/27/09, Russell McMahon <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> "Theories have four stages of acceptance:
>
> i) this is worthless nonsense;
> ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
> iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
> iv) I always said so." - J.B.S. Haldane, 1963
>
> &
>
> "When a new truth enters the world,
> the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule,
> the second stage is violent opposition, and in
> the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident."
> - Arthur Schopenhaurer (1788-1860)
>
> Who can now summarise or name the 'theory' that was replaced by "Plate
> Tectonics", within the adult [tm] lifetime of many on this list?
>
>
>         Russell
>
> ______________
>
>
>> High energy neutrons from room temperature chemical systems.
>> "Main stream / respectable / kosher / establishment accepted"  - experts
>> on
>> analysis of Neutron events in CR-39 (their detector plastic) agree that
>> the
>> results seem to indicate high energy neutrons.
>>
>> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16820-roomtemperature-fusion-in-from-the-cold.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn16820
>>
>> Lecture was timed to match the 20th anniversary (already) Pons-Fleischmann
>> announcement.
>>
>> Published some months before in peer reviewed journal.
>>
>> Abstract  http://www.springerlink.com/content/022501181p3h764l/
>
>> Triple tracks in CR-39 as the result of Pd-D Co-deposition: evidence of
>> energetic neutrons
>>      Journal Naturwissenschaften
>>      Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
>>      ISSN 0028-1042 (Print) 1432-1904 (Online)
>>      Issue Volume 96, Number 1 / January, 2009
>>      Category Short Communication
>>      DOI 10.1007/s00114-008-0449-x
>>      Pages 135-142
>>      Subject Collection Biomedical and Life Sciences
>>      SpringerLink Date Wednesday, October 01, 2008
>
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