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Dear Mr. Knelson:

Thanks for sending me your paper and the Hannover catalogue. I rather like your paper, for I also am not satisfied by a purely mathematical description of nature but need something I can feel to be real before I can understand it, I am, in fact, trying to write a model of everything, not just the atom, in simple terms of structural relationships and mechanisms of change.

But I know from experience that good physicists regard such models as mere aids and that useful understanding must be expressed mathematically, I even think that they are right to the extent that a model has to be verified by prediction and extension, which can only be done mathematically. Your model, if it is right (and I do believe that it have the right quality) will lead to pretty much the standard quantum equations, and it is easier to extend these than to build a new model for each new level of structure.

By all means publish your article. May I suggest that you send it to Leonardo the international journal whose subtitle is Art, Technology, Art, Science, Art, or somthing of the kind. Though mostly read by artist types many scientists read it also and I think it would be a good audience. You won't get your article by the referees of Physical Review or J. Chemical Physics or such. The English journal The New Scientist might be more receptive.

Good Luck,

Sincerely,

(signed) Cyril Stanley Smith

PS Sometime when near a library you might look at two articles of mine discussing the role of the artist in the history of technology. These are

Technology & Culture, 1970, 11. 493-549

Proceedings Amer. Philosophical Society,1972, 116, 97-

Metallurgical Transactions 1975, 6A, 603-623

Unfortunately I have no reprints of any of these.

CSS

CtanTr Smith