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11 do it. Before its effect can be noticable over any considerable portion of the world's people, it will have to grow a bit. It will have to graduate from the lowly pulp and carefully regulate itself so as not to bring down the scorn of the haughty conservatives; its authors will have to sweat more over their efforts (and should get much better pay for their efforts) in order to make them something more than hack; it will have to overcome a great deal of the adverse publicity it has received in the past. In regards to that last, I might say that a great deal of that load will fall on fandom's shoulders, which is only natural, as fandom has been the cause of much of this adverse publicity. I certainly do not expedite fans submitting articles et al:to Liberty, Life, Collier's, etcetera as is suggested by the esteemed Mr. Degler, but I must say that we must refrain from such things as exclusion acts and petty squabbles that seem always to cause such bad write-ups in magazines such as Time. (The New Yorker item cannot be rated in this manner. It always treats things that way.) Furthermore, we must very solidly squelch any such adverse publicity agents, as one I can think of before they thoroughly deglerize our entire set-up. Your series of discussions on time travel is proving to be of great interest to me, even though I don't generally like that type of story. As yet you haven't come across any new ideas on the subject, though Stanley and Warner have devised clever twists and Waldeyer has done a very good job of materially picturing his pet theory on the subject. Personally I dislike the "Worlds of If" idea; why, I'm afraid I couldn't say. Perhaps the thought of so many infinite branches as would be formed is too confusing for my undernourished brain-cells to conceive of this possibility. And yet, this might explain the reason we have never had a run-in with a time traveler; our branch is not honored by one. I much prefer Graph Waldeyer's idea to the effect that everything exists right now, and we could travel in time if we could get free of our current now and move along in some type of neutral channel. ------------------------------------- [Handwritten: Bill] Commentin on Raymblings of two issues ago is Bill Evans: Raymblings: I agree with Raym on editing, poems especially. Fiction, too, should be handled with care. Also articles may be entirely changed in meaning by a little editing. (Try leaving out a "not" in some sentence sometime!) May I stick my neck into the question of what happens to the energy in the spring dissolved in acid, It's quite simple. The temperature ofthe solution containing the coiled spring would be a little higher than the one without coiling. But, since the heat of the solution of such a metal is so great compared to the energy stored in the spring, the effect is usually unnoticed, or merely considered in the experimental errors.
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11 do it. Before its effect can be noticable over any considerable portion of the world's people, it will have to grow a bit. It will have to graduate from the lowly pulp and carefully regulate itself so as not to bring down the scorn of the haughty conservatives; its authors will have to sweat more over their efforts (and should get much better pay for their efforts) in order to make them something more than hack; it will have to overcome a great deal of the adverse publicity it has received in the past. In regards to that last, I might say that a great deal of that load will fall on fandom's shoulders, which is only natural, as fandom has been the cause of much of this adverse publicity. I certainly do not expedite fans submitting articles et al:to Liberty, Life, Collier's, etcetera as is suggested by the esteemed Mr. Degler, but I must say that we must refrain from such things as exclusion acts and petty squabbles that seem always to cause such bad write-ups in magazines such as Time. (The New Yorker item cannot be rated in this manner. It always treats things that way.) Furthermore, we must very solidly squelch any such adverse publicity agents, as one I can think of before they thoroughly deglerize our entire set-up. Your series of discussions on time travel is proving to be of great interest to me, even though I don't generally like that type of story. As yet you haven't come across any new ideas on the subject, though Stanley and Warner have devised clever twists and Waldeyer has done a very good job of materially picturing his pet theory on the subject. Personally I dislike the "Worlds of If" idea; why, I'm afraid I couldn't say. Perhaps the thought of so many infinite branches as would be formed is too confusing for my undernourished brain-cells to conceive of this possibility. And yet, this might explain the reason we have never had a run-in with a time traveler; our branch is not honored by one. I much prefer Graph Waldeyer's idea to the effect that everything exists right now, and we could travel in time if we could get free of our current now and move along in some type of neutral channel. ------------------------------------- [Handwritten: Bill] Commentin on Raymblings of two issues ago is Bill Evans: Raymblings: I agree with Raym on editing, poems especially. Fiction, too, should be handled with care. Also articles may be entirely changed in meaning by a little editing. (Try leaving out a "not" in some sentence sometime!) May I stick my neck into the question of what happens to the energy in the spring dissolved in acid, It's quite simple. The temperature ofthe solution containing the coiled spring would be a little higher than the one without coiling. But, since the heat of the solution of such a metal is so great compared to the energy stored in the spring, the effect is usually unnoticed, or merely considered in the experimental errors.
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