============================================================================= From: Tony Hollick, | To: ADM Noel Gayler, USN (Ret.) 4, Grayling House, | 2111 Mason Hill Drive Canford Road, | Alexandria, Bristol BS9 3 NU, | Virginia 22306, England. | United States of America Telephone (0117)-9504914 | Telephone **************** ============================================================================= Mailto:Anduril@STARGATE.uk.net Mailto:Tony.Hollick@gmail.com ============================================================================== Dear Admiral Gayler, Again, thank you so much for speaking with me when I've telephoned you from Bristol, England at your home in Alexandria over the last couple of years. I really enjoy our conversations so much -- a dream come true (for me, anyway!). Magic!!! >:-} ------------------- * * * * * --------------- A word on methodology: my approach to problem-solving is basically that of Karl Popper; and more particularly, Imre Lakatos' proposals in his "The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes" (Cambridge, [1978]). These are among the most powerful and effective instruments of intellectual weaponry I know of. I sent you Bryan Magee's wonderful little book "Popper" as a gift from me to you; and to 'repay forward' the work you've done already for peace with freedom. [ I have to admit to sometimes 'speaking through quotations': if others say what I want said, better than I can say it, 'let them fly'! ] ------------------- * * * * * --------------- I *don't* start from the problems of the _specific means of warfare, important though these are (especially nuclear weapons). With Heisenberg, I don't think these are the basic -- or even the worst -- problem: My primary concern is with 'The Causes of War' (see Geoffrey Blainey's classic academic text of this name, publ. Sun Books, Melbourne). Blainey's view (following analysis of several hundred wars from 1700 to 1971) amounts to the conclusion that wars arise as a result of faulty intelligence evaluations of one's own or the other side's interests, aims, strengths and will to fight; wars "usually begin when two [or more] nations disagree on their relative strength, and wars usually cease when the fighting nations agree on their relative strength." And I think the problems of disarmament can actually be more readily resolved long-term by something like the twelve-track strategy I outline here, with the tracks running separately yet simultaneously, more or less in parallel (an Integrated Operational Plan for worldwide peace with freedom, if you like!). Such a plan incorporates specific advances to general nuclear disarmament, while (hopefully) avoiding the dangers of open-ended non-nuclear warfare. Its central focus is upon what we're fighting for -- and against -- and the means by which we fight; and upon the human and material costs. Still, there are indeed 'no final moves'! ----------- * * * * * ----------- Prefacing remark: "William Hood on war" TEXT: "Like war, spying is a dirty business. Shed of its alleged glory, a soldier's job is to kill. Peel away the claptrap of espionage and the spy's job is to betray trust. The only justification a soldier or a spy can have is the moral worth of the cause herepresents." William Hood was deputy to James Jesus Angleton, legendary Director of CIA counterintelligence; 'Mole' p. 11; publ. Weidenfeld's [1982]. I've discussed various problems with William Hood very recently. He's contactable via the AFIO. ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK ONE] 'Values as the expression of the central order' TEXT: 'The problem of values is nothing but the problems of our acts, goals and morals. It concerns the compass by which we must steer our ship if we are to set a true course through life. The compass itself has been given different names by various religions and philosophies ... but I have a clear impression that all such formulations try to express man's relatedness to a central order. In the final analysis the central order, or the 'One' as it used to be called with which we commune in the language of religion, must win out.... If we ask Western man what is good, what is worth striving for and what has to be rejected, we shall find time and again, that his answers reflect the ethical norms of Christianity even when he has long since lost all touch with Christian images and parables. If the magnetic force which has guided this particular compass - and what else was its source but the central order? - should ever become extinguished, _terrible_ things may happen to mankind, far more terrible even than concentration camps and atom bombs.' Werner Heisenberg, [1971] 'Physics and beyond: encounters and conversations', published by George Allen and Unwin, London. Thorpe is emphatic in asserting that we must never forget that such a conclusion must on no account be attributed solely to the Western insights stemming from the Christian revelation; he gives the following Admonitions as a further example, drawn from the Amerindian tribe of the Shawnees (who were dispossessed of their Oklahoma lands in 1839). The Shawnee Admonitions: ----------------------- TEXT: (A) "Do not kill or injure your neigbour, for it is not him you injure, you injure yourself." (B) "Do not wrong or hate your neighbour, for it is not him that you wrong, you wrong yourself. Moneto, the Supreme Being. loves him also as she loves you." Quoted from W.H. Thorpe, 'Purpose in a World of Chance: A Biologist's View' [1978], George, Allen and Unwin. This is clearly related via the central order to the (negative) Judaic injunction not to do unto one's neighbour that which one would not wish to befall one's self. My own -- perhaps agnostic -- orientation is nearer Taoism [and Greek mythology]; but these ethical principles are capable of reformulation for most spiritual -- and even humanistic or 'moral atheistic' -- contexts. ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK TWO] "The Role of the Sciences" TEXT: I am constantly reminded of the role of the Newtonian foundations in Kantian ethics. I do think that the near-destruction of 'Classical Physics' was a tragedy that broke the self-confident -- Kantian -- foundations of 19th Century liberal optimism and rational expectations of a better future, and further opened the door to the barbarism of Prussian militarism, aggressive racial nationalism, Marxism and National Socialism in the 20th Century. I've spent much of the last 10 years working on a Scientific Research Programme which is founded on an extended Classical Mechanics, which replaces Special Relativity and General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics with an intelligible and accurate integrated Scientific Research Programme -- Relational Dynamics -- which can be stated on a sheet or two of A4 paper. Here's the 'Core Programme' of Relational Dynamics: There's an accompanying 120K file which closely argues for the programme on a positive 'balance-sheet' heuristic of clarity, simplicity and accuracy in description, explanation and prediction. 'Physics demystified!' >:-} The latest Revision of 'Relational Dynamics' is available from: http://www.STARGATE.uk.net/dynamics.txt ========================================================================= TITLE: A Scientific Research Programme of Relational Dynamics -- [T3] ========================================================================= TEXT: The basis of Relational Dynamics is the single principle, that the laws of physics have the same form in all frames of reference in uniform translation, and are the same everywhere. It extends Classical Mechanics into the realms presently occupied by Special and General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Dimensional Analysis of Measure Ratios: Mass = M. Length = L. Time = T. [1] MATTER IN INFINITE SPACE: Material objects having extension exist in a space which is without intrinsic properties, and which exists to infinity in every direction. [2] UNIFORM TIME WITH UNIVERSAL SIMULTANEITY: The elapsing of time is uniform and unidirectionally forward, with an instantaneous present time which occurs at the same moment -- simultaneously -- everywhere. Signal intervals can be recalculated to achieve corrected accurate predictive and retrodictive data. [3] EQUIVALENT GALILEAN RELATIVITY: All forces, material coordinate positions and velocities are relational; and all co-ordinate systems or frames of reference in uniform motion relative to one another are Galileian systems. There is no privileged or "absolute" reference frame. There is full addition of velocities across co-ordinate systems or reference frames. [4] GENERALIZATION OF THE LAWS OF MECHANICS: All the laws of mechanics have the same form in every inertial frame of reference or coordinate system. [5] CLASSICAL MECHANICS: INERTIA: The stasis or movement of anything does not change unless and until a force acts upon it. [6] CLASSICAL MECHANICS: ACTION: A change in movement of anything is proportional to the force acting upon it, and is made in the direction of the force which acts upon it. (f = ma = ML/T^2; Force = mass times acceleration). [7] CLASSICAL MECHANICS: REACTION: For every action, there is an equal reaction in the opposite direction. (f1 = -f2). [8] RELATIONAL GRAVITATIONAL FORCE: The relational gravitational attraction between massy objects is proportional to their masses, and is proportional to the inverse square of the distance between their centres of mass. If gravitational force should prove to be propagated at a finite rate, and objects be moving radially relative to each other, then the additional velocity-dependent modification for propagated spherical forces, Woldemar Voight's [1887] Doppler equations (later known as "Lorentz Transformations") would be required, as a first approximation to force field equations for delayed interaction over a distance. [9] RELATIONAL ELECTRIC FORCE: The relational electric attraction or repulsion between charged objects is inverse-square proportional to the distance between them. If electric force proves to be propagated at a finite rate, and objects be moving relative to each other, then the additional velocity-dependent modification for propagated spherical forces, Woldemar Voight's [1887] Doppler equations (later known as "Lorentz Transformations") is required, as a first approximation to force field equations for delayed interaction over a distance. Coulomb's Law and Voight's equations yield Maxwell's equations without further assumptions, as proved by Leigh Page, Yale Professor of Mathematical Physics [1912] and [1913]. Electrodynamics is fully deriveable form electrostatics via Classical Mechanics. A. O'Rahilly, "Electromagnetics", Longmans & U. Cork, [1938] & Dover [1965] R.A. Waldron, "The Wave and Ballistic Theories of Light", F. Muller, [1977] R.A. Waldron, "Electric Forces", The Radio and Electronic Engineer, Vol. 51 No. 11/12, pp. 553 to 560, November/December [1981]. Leigh Page, Yale University, [1912] and [1913]. [10] RELATIONAL MAGNETIC FORCE: The relational magnetic attraction or repulsion between north and south magnets is inverse-square proportional to the distance between them. If magnetic force proves to be propagated at a finite rate, and objects be moving radially relative to each other, then the additional velocity-dependent modification for propagated spherical forces, Woldemar Voight's [1887] equations (later known as "Lorentz Transformations") would be required, as a first approximation to force field equations for delayed interaction over a distance. The [static] lines of magnetic force follow from the force interactions described by Poisson's equations. A. O'Rahilly, "Electromagnetics", Longmans & U. Cork, [1938] Dover [1965] R.A. Waldron, "The Wave and Ballistic Theories of Light", F. Muller [1977] R.A. Waldron, "Electric Forces", The Radio and Electronic Engineer, Vol. 51 No. 11/12, pp. 553 to 560, November/December [1981]. [11] QUANTIZED MASS AND ENERGY VALUE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION: Electromagnetic structures which are radiated and absorbed ('photons') have intrinsic mass, and this mass occurs in in multiples of a minimum mass. This mass, when in linear translation and with up to three axes of classical rotation, ('spins') as well as three degrees of vibration, gives rise to quantum effects. Such electromagnetic structures ('photons') are made from the same material as other forms of matter - negatively charged microparticles (which we can call electrinos); positively-charged microparticles, (which we may call positrinos). There are also neutral (perhaps bound pair) microparticles, (presently called neutrinos). In free space the velocity of emittance of a radiated photon _relative to its source_ is constant at L/T = 299,792.485 + or - .0012 km/second. 'c'. E = hv, where E is the energy value of the photon; v is its frequency; and h is Planck's constant, which has the measure-ratio of ML^2/T, and is presently calculated as 6.6262 x 10^-34 Joules/second. There is accordingly a lower as well as an upper limit to photon mass. At the upper limit, pair-production occurs. Relevant equations may be found in R.A. Waldron, [1977] and [1982]. These quantized electromagnetic structures, in conjunction with Beckmann's [1987] theory of stable electron orbits, provide the basis for developing the quantized dynamics of particle systems, including atoms and molecules. (See the Car-Parrinello method). R.A. Waldron, "The Wave and Ballistic Theories of Light", F. Muller [1977] R.A. Waldron, "The Spinning Photon", Speculations in Science and Technology, Elsevier Sequoia S.A., 5 April 1982. P. Beckmann, "Einstein plus Two", Golem Press [1987]. [12] CONSERVATION LAWS: There is full conservation of mass; full conservation of energy over time; and full conservation of momentum. Mass is invariant with respect to relative velocities, as are also length and time. ========================================================================== [ Copyright Anthony Hugh Hollick, Bristol, England. February 28 [1995] ] ========================================================================== It may assist understanding to think about RM like this: [A] Take Classical Mechanics: (Start with T.W.B. Kibble's fine text): [B] Add relational electric and magnetic and gravitational forces: [C] Add a velocity of force propagation ('c'), which delays far-action: [D] Add a full ballistic ('particle' or 'photon') theory of EM radiation. "Classical Mechanics is everywhere exactly 'right' wherever its concepts can be applied." -- Werner Heisenberg. (That is, everywhere). ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK THREE]: "The Role of Philosopy in the Furtherance of Open Societies" Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies" is a basic text, as is his [1994] "The Myth Of the Framework." Tarski's Correspondence theory of truth is central; and Lakatos and Musgrave [1976] is also 'essential reading', as is John Hospers' fine book 'Human Conduct.' And even David Carradine's fine book 'The Spirit of Shaolin' . [1997: And Immannuel Kant, 'Was ist Aufklarung?']: "Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the maxim of the Enlightenment." ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK FOUR] "The Role of the Arts" TEXT: "They were wrong, and they will always be wrong, those prophets who say Art will degenerate, will exhaust all conceivable forms, will die. It is we who will die; Art will remain. And shall we -- before we perish -- manage to understand all its facets and all its purposes? Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. Through Art we are sometimes sent -- indistinctly, briefly -- revelations not to be achieved by rational thought. It is like that small mirror in the fairy-tales -- you glance in it, and what you see is not yourself: for an instant, you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you. And the soul cries out for it..." From 'One Word of Truth...' -- The Nobel Speech on Literature; by Alexander Solzhenitsyn: BBC External Services Translation, Publ. The Bodley Head [1972] http://www.STARGATE.uk.net/nobel.txt The brilliant American actress Dorothy Jean Seberg, from Marshalltown, Iowa -- (see her in incomparable performances, in Otto Preminger's 'St. Joan', where -- as a 17-year-old girl -- she was chosen from 10 000 to play Joan of Arc; and in Robert Rossen's magnificent film 'Lilith') -- was hideously and protractedly killed as a direct consequence of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's malicious actions against her. Hoover circulated vicious press stories including one that the baby she was expecting was of mixed race, and he imposed unbearable pressures on her. She miscarried, and subsequently tried to kill herself on each anniversity of her lost baby's death. She was later found dead in Paris, her body stuffed into a car trunk by the side of the road). David Richards' biography of Dorothy Jean Seberg is titled 'Played Out.' And radical actress Frances Farmer's horrifying autobiography, "Will There Really Be A Morning?" (filmed as 'Frances' with Jessica Lange. [1983]) is a truly terrifying public warning of the perils and consequences of coercive psychiatry. We _cannot_ allow such terrorist acts to be committed against people anymore. And Richard C. Sarafian's magnificent movie "Vanishing Point" [1971]. "Fasten your safety belts. You've never had a trip like this before." ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK FIVE] : "Realizing Human Potential" TEXT: I'm working intermittently on a -- shareware -- personal computer multimedia programme which offers some of the benefits of the Human Potential methods, inexpensively, on a more widespread basis. There is quite a lot of interest in such technologies nowadays. The work of LTC Jim Channon's 'First Earth Battalion Foundation' is also well worth a look; as is the generality of work done on the realization of Human Potential described in Pearson & Shaw's book "Life Extension -- A Practical Scientific Approach"; and "MegaBrain" by Michael Hutchison. And the Silva Method. ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK SIX] 'Democratic Agorism' -- a social and political program TEXT: Over the years, I've developed a straightforward political and social programme -- 'Democratic Agorism' -- which aims to provide both assessment benchmarks as well as practical measures to achieve more fully free and open societies worldwide. And Open Societies don't war with each other... Latest revisions of the 'Democratic Agorism' program available from: http://www.STARGATE.uk.net/agora7.txt The essential elements of Demopcratic Agorism are modular _and_ synergistic: They include: [A] A contractually-based day-by-day electoral system - Vectored Politics [B] Full-Liability Personal Indemnity Insurance, enabling full restitution. [C] Personal Radio Alarms: for event-driven and customer-driven policing [D] A Restitutive Legal System, with online 'courts' and arbitration. [E] Good Basic Income Provision for all -- independent incomes for all. [F] Networked information services and library facilities [G] National Health Insurance chargecard and online diagnostic facilities [H] Online education and skills-development facilities [I] Tradenet buy/sell/swap/finance/work transaction services [J] Packaged 'political' services provided via elected representatives When all children (indeed, all of us) have [item C) these inexpensive self-activated radio 'panic' alarms (like Search and Rescue Alarms), they will be greatly more secure from all kinds of harm. I have given this idea to Motorola Corporation. ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK SEVEN] "Wars of Ideas -- Wars on Ideas" TEXT: As Popper says ("The Myth Of The Framework"), civilization really go going with the invention of swords. Civilized and intelligent men and women then saw that fighting with words makes better sense, with _bad ideas_ dying instead of _people_. So, I support wars of ideas waged on behalf of the ideas of the Open Society, backed with: Triple-track diplomacy -- (positive, negative and covert-action); Psychological warfare (viz. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger's classic text of that name: did you ever meet him?); and Information Warfare ('C4ISR' -- Command, Control, Communications, Countermeasures, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance). Special Forces (viz. "Swords of Lightning: The Changing Face of Warfare" by Terry White; publ. Brassey's, [1992]; 'Special Forces of the World.' An excellent overview). Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups. "Fly Navy!" A revamped Air Force flying UAVs with PGMs and .50 Caliber rifles. With modified C-5s, flying carriers of UAVs become feasible. 'Antiweaponry' Defences (Precision-Guided Munitions, conventional antiballistic missile systems -- viz. the _original_ "High Frontier" ideas in Dan Graham's Heritage Foundation Project Book of that name [1982], not the hyped-up SDI stuff that squandered the money and the political support which could have actually _built_ High Frontier's Layered Defense proposals. I would ask you to please consider the "High Frontier" proposals independently of your experience of the late Dan Graham: I was impressed by the way he welcomed a visiting Soviet journalist to a High Frontier presentation in London which I attended, and he emphasised how the US and the USSR could work together to block nuclear attack. "We want live Americans, not dead Russians." Some of our MoD and conservative people were averse to Strategic Defense ideas because they feared the nullification of Britain's 'independent deterrent': yet our Trident systems rely on American know-how for accuracy; and I'll not soon forget my Royal Navy friend Peter McManus -- later a 'Top Gun' air combat trainer 'on loan' to the Central Flying School, RAF Valley in the late 'Sixties -- telling me of the terse reply they were given at their fighter-bomber mission briefing, when someone asked how they were supposed to get 'back home' again, when the nuclear targets were at the fighter-bombers' limits of range: "What the Hell do you think there will be to come 'home' to"? The aim of the Twelve Track Operational Plan should be to fight and win the war of ideas *peacefully* for the Open Societies, wherever practicable transforming enemies into friends. ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK EIGHT] "Horizontal Spontanous Social Orders" TEXT: My preference is for the sorts of damage-resistant, adaptive and resilient 'horizontal' free and equalitarian social orders envisioned by (most of) the Lockean founders of the American Republic. (If a quiet patriotism is the love of the _idea_ of a country, I'm certainly a North American!). ------------------- * * * * * --------------- [TRACK NINE] "Globalized Free Communications Networks" Lots of Internets, with lots of alternative data-radio and telecomms providers! Cheap or free powerful and secure personal computers. Spontaneous orders then form from the free choices made by the individual telecommunicators. David Andrews' excellent book "The IRG Solution: Hierarchical Incompetence and How To Overcome It" (Souvenir Press, [1984]) gives good insights into these social processes and their internal dynamics. ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK TEN] "The Role Of History". TEXT: In 1944, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation ran this magazine advertisement, showing a grim pilot, about to take on Zeros at twelve o'clock, imagining this staccato message to his partner:- "I want to tell you what I'm fighting for.. It's you and our little house and the job I had before... and the chance I had, the fighting chance, to go ahead on my own. That's what all of us want out here... to win this war... to get home... To go back to living our lives in a land -- and a world -- where *every* man is free to grow as great as he's a mind to be... where *every* man has an *unlimited* opportunity to be useful to himself and his fellow men ... "Tell 'em we'll be back... Nothing can stop us... And tell 'em no matter what they say, no matter what they do... to stay *free*... To keep America a land of *individual freedom*! _That's_ what we're fighting for... _That's_ what we're willing to die for... _That's_ the America we want when we come home." "We had better figure out what happened if we expect _any_ army, conscript or volunteer, even to _remember_ what it's fighting for." - Michael Levin ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK ELEVEN] "WildFire Systems" TEXT: By "WildFire Systems" I mean self-propagating, decentralized, 'synergistic' and practical instantiations of free social innovations, which replace existing unjust and inefficient "verticalist" social practices with better, more mutually advantageous "horizontalist" relationships; e.g. [a] Offices of Open Network (like Leif Smith's and Pat Wagner's in Colorado - I have a copy of their interesting 60pp Operating Manual). http://www.pattern.com [b] Information Exchanges [c] Credit Unions (like Grameen MicroBank and North American CUs) [d] Local Exchange Trading Systems -- LETS -- (to 'kickstart' economic activity where people have little or no money). Start-up books are available. [e] WishCraft Centres: Non-injurious 'wishes' are described on record cards or computer record entries in this simple format: TITLE: ; WISH: 50 to 100 word comprehensive description; CONTACT: preferred contact method or address Participants then work to realize the wishes for each other. Fun! [f] Mondragon-style Worker Co-Operatives, which show twice the return on capital of investor-owned businesses. http://www.mcc.es ----------- * * * * * ----------- [TRACK TWELVE] "The Role Of Mythologies" TEXT: Science fiction has been aptly described as 'The Mythology of the 20th (and 21st) Century. Foremost among my favourites are J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' (in which coercion is the main evil, and individual free will is the foundation of the principal virtues). And Cordwainer Smith's incomparable stories (Dr. Paul Linebarger's nom de plume); And the STAR WARS Trilogy; And 'STAR TREK - The Movie.' >:-} And the wonderful STARGATE series. And of course the mythologies of (inter alia) Classical Greece and the Celts and China... ----------- * * * * * ----------- I hope you find these ideas worthy of your consideration and further discussion and development; I'm really looking forward to hearing from you! I'm entirely happy for you to discuss all this with others if you think it's worthwhile. I have no secrets from the Puzzle Palace!! How could I ?? All Best Wishes to Kay and yourself, We Shall Overcome Tony Hollick ============ Anduril@STARGATE.uk.net ------------------- * * * * * --------------- | Anduril@STARGATE.uk.net * http://www.STARGATE.uk.net | - <*> --------------------------* * * *-------------------------- <*> - | Rainbow Bridge Foundation * * * Centre for Liberal Studies | - <*> --------------------------* * * *-------------------------- <*> - | 4 Grayling House, Canford Rd: * Bristol BS9 3NU Tel: 9504914 | "Freedom means doing whatever you damn well please, without harming others." -- Barry M. Goldwater ------------------- * * * * * --------------- POSTSCRIPT ONE: "... seen as the result of human endeavour, of human dreams, hopes, passions, and most of all, as the result of the most admirable union of creative imagination and rational critical thought, I should like to write 'Science' with the biggest capital 'S' to be found in the printer's upper case. Science is not only like art and literature, an adventure of the human spirit, but it is among the creative arts perhaps the most human: full of human failings and shortsightedness, it shows those flashes of insight which open our eyes to the wonders of the world and of the human spirit. But this is not all. Science is the direct result of that most human of all human endeavours - to liberate ourselves. It is part of our endeavour to see more clearly, to understand the world and ourselves, and to act as adult, responsible and enlightened beings. 'Enlightenment', Kant wrote, 'is the emancipation of man from self-imposed tutelage . . . from a state of incapacity to use his own intelligence without external guidance. Such a state of tutelage I call "self-imposed" if it is due not to any lack of intelligence but the lack of courage or determination to use one's own intelligence instead of relying upon a leader. *Sapere Aude!* Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the maxim of the Enlightenment.' [ref. 6, Immanuel Kant, 'Was ist Aufklarung?'] Kant challenges us to use our intelligence instead of relying upon a leader, upon an authority. This should be taken as a challenge to reject even the scientific expert as a leader, or even *science itself* Science has no authority. It is not the magical product of the given, the data, the observations. It is not a gospel of truth. It is the result of our own endeavours and mistakes. It is you and I who make science, as well as we can. It is you and I who are responsible for it... The nuclear bomb (and possibly also the so-called 'peaceful use of atomic energy' whose consequences may be even worse in the long run) have, I think, shown us the shallowness of the worship of science as an 'instrument' of our 'command over nature' or the 'control of our physical environment': it has shown us that this command, this control, is apt to be self-defeating, and apt to enslave us rather than to make us free - if it does not do away with us altogether. And while knowledge is worth dying for, power is not. (Knowledge is one of the few things that are worth dying for, together with liberty, love, kindness, and helping those who are in need of help)." by Karl R. Popper from "Realism and the Aim of Science" Volume I of "The Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery" Edited by William Warren Bartley, III, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford. Publ. Hutchinson, 1983, pb. 1985 Copyright Karl Raimund Popper 1956, 1983 Sir Karl Popper, F. R. S., held fourteen honorary Doctorates from American, British, German, Austrian, New Zealand and Canadian universites. He was a member (or honorary member) of twelve academies, among them the three oldest that still exist. Works of his have been translated into over 30 languages. But Sir Karl was never impressed by 'great reputations', least of all his own... ------------------- * * * * * --------------- POSTSCRIPT TWO: Biographical note: Admiral Noel A. M. Gayler, USN (Ret). ======================================================== Born December 25, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America. 1931-1935 U.S. Naval Academy. 1935 Commissioned Ensign, USN. 1940 Flight Training course. 1940 Naval aviator, assigned to VF-12 Squadron, USS Randolph, flying Grumman F-6F Hellcats from Navy carriers. Served in the Pacific Theatre during WWII. Asst. to Admiral John M. Cain. 1957 Aide to Navy Secretary Thomas S. Gates. 1960 Aug:- Commanding Officer, CV-61 USS Ranger (Aircraft Carrier). 1960 Rear Admiral. 1962-1963 Commander, Carrier Division TWENTY, US Atlantic Fleet. 1963-1965 Director, Development Programmes, Office of Chief Naval Officer. 1965-1967 Assistant Deputy Chief, Naval Operations (Development). 1967-1969 Deputy Director, Joint Strategic Planning Staff, Offut AFB. (Designer, the Single Integrated Operational Plan -- SIOP). 1969-1972 Director, National Security Agency (DIRNSA). 1969-1972 Chief, Central Security Agency. (CCSA). 1972-1976 Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet and Armed Forces (CinCPAC). * Retired as 4-star Admiral. (Would have been five stars if the US had formally declared the Vietnam conflict a war, which in fact it was). * Awarded:- Three Navy Crosses; Bronze Star Medal; Distinguished Service Medal; Legion of Merit with Gold Star; Sperry Award of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences; other medals and awards. * Committee Member (with George Kennan>: * American Committee On East-West Accord * He has contributed to: "The Choice: Nuclear Weapons versus Security" edited by Gwyn Prins, Cambridge, [1984] [Ch: 2] "A Commander-in-Chief's Perspective on Nuclear Weapons." [Ch: 16] "The Way Out: A General Nuclear Settlement." / /\ \ --*----*-- ------------------- * * * * * --------------- .