Condolence Messages

Here it is April 27, and I just thought to look at Mega Research, since I remembered that Tom was ill. Time as sped by, as did life itself. I send my condolences, but I'd like also to send a remembrance that is wholly positive.
I was with Tom in Cardiff, Wales, at a 2998 conference on Astrobiology. Tom presented his Mars slides, as well as a very well thought out talk on "Exploding Planets". At one dinner, I asked how he got into this topic, and he told me the following story (I'll tell it as if he were talking):
"I was working at the Naval Observatory, and doing the programming for the calculations of orbits. I had a good number of publications, and I was asked to review articles. One day an article came to me about Exploding Planets. I thought 'well I can disprove this in a few hours', and set the paper aside. Then I tried to disprove it, and, to my surprise, I couldn't! In fact, the more I worked on the hypothesis, the more data seemed to be in agreement. Ultimately I started publishing the results. One day the chief of the Lab came to me and said 'You are bringing down the reputation of the lab by these papers about exploding planets. You must either stop publishing, or leave the Lab.' So, I left the lab."
I'm back to say that I have the highest admiration for those who will do what is required of a reputable, good scientist-- to follow the beliefs where-ever the facts lead. And Tom proved his quality as a top-level, elite scientist who is willing to put his beliefs up against "the common-place scientist" who follows the orthodox, approved banality of "Big Bang", "expanding universe", "warped space", etc. Tom's abilities, and his accomplishments were of the highest caliber. He will be missed, and the insights he had yet to offer us, means our lives are a bit less-- though we cannot know in what way. But, here's a message to you, Tom: "Thanks for all you did, Tom! Few could do it, and none in your way. Yours was a life well-lived! Let's meet on the other side of Andromeda, racing ahead to find out new, interesting things about this marvelous universe!" Sincerely, Don L. Jewett, M.D., D.Phil. don.jewett@ucsf.edu

Hello Friends,

yesterday I opend MetaResearch, I havn`t visited the webpage for quite a while, and needed to read that Tom VanFlandern has passed. I want express my condolence to his family and his friends.

I owe him much - he opend my mind for aether physics and new cosmology. His calculations of the speed of gravity confirmed my presumption to be on a good way - beyond Einstein.

By hindsight he was a pioneer in alternative physics. I guess most of us wont forget him, his work and his passion for the truth.

His work on earth was done and now he will earn the eternal life in which most of us do believe in.

I bow my head
Roland

(sorry for my english I am german dude)[]

Tom now knows the secret of one of the greatest mysteries of life.

I will miss his no-nonsense approach that I find so lacking in the rest of the conventional scientific community.

Fare ye well, gentle soul.

I'd procrastinate, but I can't seem to find the time

In the public library a few years ago I ran across Tom's book, and the idea of pushing gravity, no big bang, no dark matter, and more than one exploded planet. It was brave to publish such ideas in the face of such arrogance in the "established scientific community". Maybe even more brave were his theories on life on Mars. I admit I disagreed with a lot of his Mars theories, but I will challenge anyone who says he was wrong to ask the questions he did. Closed minds never find anything beyond what they have accepted as truth. Tom never made that mistake. Even when he was wrong, he was right to challenge our assumptions. I do not believe in death, but as he has lost this body, I wish him a good path forward into the next experience. He helped me think more freely, and that is one of the greatest gifts you can give a being.

I hope that Meta Research will live on. I hope that they continue to be controversial, continue to question things we have been told to accept as hard fact. Through this continued science, an extremely important part of who Tom was will grow and help more people. A person is a lot of things, and not everything Tom is dead, just the body. What we've actually lost with his passing is for us to decide.

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"Regret can only change the future" -Me

"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." Frank Herbert, Dune 1965

Dangus,

I tried to reply to you via your email link, but it bounced back as undeliverable.

??,
LB

Sorry my info here is super out of date, try amish_fighter_pilot@yahoo.com

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"Regret can only change the future" -Me

"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." Frank Herbert, Dune 1965