--- In TheAoISCT@yahoogroups.com, "captjim" <Jonesalonzo1@...> wrote:
>
> I'm not completely sure I understand. Are you saying that Feinberg
> actually plagerized Sudarshan's work, - or could this be a case where
> two researchers came to the same independant conclusions and one was
> just published earlier than the other?
>

I stated that Feinberg "stole" the concept of the FTL particles which
he named "tachyons" from Sudarshan and his collaborators, without
giving them "proper" credit for being the first to publish the notion
in formal peer-reviewed physics language. But I based my comment on
the information in the web-site I cited earlier; maintained by the
University of Texas at Austin (UoT@A).

That is, I am not making a charge of plagiarism, because I do not have
the authority to do so, but UoT@A is clearly stating that it happened,
and I believe them (because I, long ago, read the material in question,
and recall the similiarities in what was said in the two sources; the
1962 Journal article and Feinberg's 1967 Review article). But readers
can judge for themselves by looking up the articles in the periodical
archives of their nearest university library.

It would not be the first time a scientist has presented the ideas of
someone else as his own, and gotten away with it. And it has certainly
not been the last. Are you surprised?

But to be kind to the late professor Feinberg, he did indeed coin the
name "tachyon", and that, apparently, is what has caused many to credit
him with devising the first physics representation of FTL particles.
And to be honest about Sudarshan, the idea of FTL particles had been in
the minds of theorists and science-fiction writers for decades.
It is just that the trio of Sudarshan, Deshpande, and Bilaniuk were the
first physicsts to seriously suggest the existence of FTL particles, in
the literature; complete with the first proper representations theory.
Their only discernable mistake, it seems to me, was in not giving their
hypothetical FTL particles a name with the "-on" suffix.

Hence, score one particle-naming publicity coup for Feinberg.