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DARTS COTTAGE, BEMBRIDGE. I.W.
BEMBRIDGE 120.
Dear John,
Just read your "Gap in the Curtain" Great fun. I like the discounting of the future very much.
Actual contemporary politics are dull reading, so I found invented ones even worse, but no doubt many will like it.
About "time". You do not pay tribute to Dunne who wrote quite the best work on this "An experiment in Time."
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Physicists claim time as a fourth dimension. If so then you should be free to move in it both ways. Eddington bases his "arrow" of time as being possible only in one way on "entropy". I have never been convinced on this.
Dunne accepts time as a fourth dimension, but admits rightly that time "flows" and if this is so then the rate of flow must be measured by another time and another observer, and so on
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introducing serialism and deriving immortality therefrom.
Interesting but a badly written book neither popular or mathematical. Difficult to mix these two.
Sailing boats all day, great fun I love it. Excitement is due to competition not speed. In a boat race speed is about 6 mph, but just as exciting as an aeroplane race.
Been over in Germany a bit, amusing. Wish I spoke their lingo, but they love us.
Congratulations again on the book
Your's
"Brab"
[ST: I think Lord Brabazon but am uncertain of this.]
