[OT} Alderson Drive

Hi everybody,

I just got an email from somebody who was looking for information on
Alderson Drive.  According to him, there was a real person named
Alderson
who actually had a scientific basis (accurate or not) that Pournelle and
other sci-fi authors have used.  (He got my email from the GZG Archives,
since there has been talk of the Alderson drive on the list in the
past.)

Has anybody out there heard anything about this?  Is this true?  If so,
does anybody have any information pointers on the web?	(There are
references to information sources in the Archives, but no links that I
could find.)

Thanks,
Jerry
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I wake in pain; I dream of love as time runs through my hand."
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