Fred - I didn't mean to disparge 20th century physics discoveries - it was an incredible century - but your book is old stuff - thats what history is all about - its very important to study the history of physics - that's what going to college is all about - I hope your book can help students clarify their learning. But I'm interested in the future of discovering new ideas and challenging the weaker ideas.

You are obviously a very intelligent person who was able to learn all that the colleges have to offer and probably graduated magna cum laude but do you have any original ideas in your head, stuff that is so radical, that you could be elevated by your peers to that of a "crackpot". There are a lot of great scientists who went through that stage before their ideas were accepted. (By the way thank you for promoting me to being a "crackpot" - your not the first to do so.)

Fortunately I do not work for a university and have no status in science education so I do not have to fear losing my job if I buck the wrong people or offer radical ideas that no one accepts for now. That's why I published my book in 1996 - to put my ideas out there for all to see. Thanks to the internet they have been sent all over the world.

I'll bet you 5 bucks they never find the Higgs particle!

Best Regards, Don Hamilton

Fred - check out: http://novan.com/pwr-imag.htm (I put you in the second category - what do you think?)
dlham@prodigy.net