On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:03:49 -0500, thinbluemime
<thinbluemime@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"It doesn’t scatter quite right"
The interesting thing is that it was Faraday who said that. Michael
Faraday discovered, among other things, the rotation of the
polarization of light by a magnetic field. Now, according to
conventional science, this property wouldn't have any large-scale
effects useful for, say, cloaking an island. But unconventional
scientists haven't been afraid to run with the idea. In his letters
to Morris Jessup, Carlos Allende, the originator of the Philadelphia
Experiment myth, wrote that if Faraday had paid attention to certain
phenomena surrounding a current, the world either would not exist
today or if it did, wouldn't have the suicidal political situation
that it does. (Elsewhere he says, and this is an exact quote, "If you
choose to go mad, then you would reveal this information", which
sounds rather like what Jack was worried Hurley would do in the
hospital.)
Later, to reinforce the idea that there's some warping of spacetime
going on on the island, Faraday calls a Minkowski.
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