If memory serves me correctly, "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline", was written by none other that Isaac Asimov as a joke and was subsequently published in, I think, "Amazing Stories", which later became "Analog". It was published prior to his Doctoral Thesis. When he went for the orals, he was worried about how he would do to get his doctorate. The committee proceeded to ask him about the article!
It is not clear whether this was from the happy summer afternoons that I spent reading Science Fiction from "the Golden Era" in the Library at Easter Washington State College or, more likely, from an editorial in "Asimov's".
And, to make it clear, the paper was a joke.
>>> Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]> 07/20 11:33 AM >>>
Jim Phillips wrote:
>July 19 - Can anything break the cosmic speed limit of 186,000 miles per
>second? For weeks, scientific circles have been buzzing about an experiment
>that pulsed light through a special chamber so fast that it left the
>apparatus before it fully entered it. Now the research has been released at
>last, and the experimenters say their findings contradict no laws of
>physics - just the misconceptions people have about them.
While not related to the experiment described here, there was a classic
paper in the late 1950s called _The Endochronic Properties of
Resublimated Thiotimoline_, which describes a chemical so soluble in
water that under certain circumstances, it dissolves just before the
water is added.
-- Bruce
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