(urth) not quite Father Inire's mirrors . . .

[António Pedro Marques]

Gerry Quinn wrote (08-06-2011 19:49):
> ...might be considered a clear indication that when Wolfe finds a
> conflict between neat ideas and valid science, the neat ideas win out

Count me in!

> Tacking across the photon wind is a neat idea, but obviously it only
> works if you can get some sort of traction on the vacuum.  And if you
> could do that, special relativity would be completely DOA.

I don't know that that's the only problem with the 'photon wind', but the 
idea I have from the current and not-so-current panorama is that there isn't 
a single established theory that hasn't big holes in it - meaning that even 
as they are useful for Technological Progress, one shouldn't be completely 
shackled to their Fundamental Implications.