User:Vsmith

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Editing since July '04
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Who

Geologist - MS, 1975, The University of Arizona. Currently a "torturer of teenagers" (high school science teacher) and a dabbler in almost anything scientific. {B-)}

Re Dynamo theory

You have stated "you appear to be adding and promoting your own ideas/research on dynamo theory and other articles". I think there is some misunderstanding. I edited "Dynamo theory" and improved the scientific descriptions, including adding factual discussions with references to new, recently published fundamental concepts in peer-reviewed, world-class scientific journals. There is a big difference between self-promotional and factual representations. Please tell me which of my own words, are not factual. I describe both older ideas and newer and the basis for the newer ideas. Suppose this were 1905, would you object to Einstein citing his own publications on brownian motion, special relativity, or the photo-electric effect? You might, if he said, "Look at how great I am". But as a good scientist, he would, I am confident, describe his published work in a factual manner, just as I have done. As a self-professed "dabbler in almost anything scientific", I would like to extend to you an invitation to "dabble" at the forefront of science, and in doing so to understand where I'm comming from and what science is all about. I have put a lifetime of work into one, recently published, east-to-read book, entitled "Maverick's Earth and Universe" which, among other things presents a more fundamental approach than the so-called scientific method, and provides information intended to help people make discoveries plus a whole lot more. The book is available from amazon.com.

Rather than escalating this whole issue, I would like for you to understand and then, having done that, to help rather than to oppose me.Marvin Herndon (talk) 20:40, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Long, long time ago

In what seems like another universe now, I was a U.S. Marine - spent almost two years in 'nam. Radio op with MAG-36, chopper outfit, mostly in and around Ky Ha copter pad north of the Chu Lai airbase. Took a trip to 'nam aboard the USS Princeton (CV-37) in August '65 and flew back stateside June '67. Just in case anyone from that universe is surfing around wiki. Damn, that was a long time ago!

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