Editing DarkMatter/VeraRubin (section)

==Exchange of Letters with Jim Felten (1984) &hellip; and Beyond==

[[File:JamesFelten1983small.png|right|thumb|150px|Draft of James E. Felten's (1984) paper]]About half a year later, Dr. James E. Felten &#8212; at the time, a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland &#8212; was discussing with Dr. Rubin the published work of Milgrom &amp; Bekenstein and she told him that Joel Tohline "worked on 'Milgrom' ideas before Milgrom!"  (See Felten's hand-written comment inside the red oval of the image shown here, on the right; click to make the thumbnail image larger.). I presume that Dr. Rubin was recalling the discussion that I had had [[#Tohline_Visits_CIW:DTM_.281980.29|with her group in early 1980]].  Dr. Felten then contacted me and we exchanged a few letters on the subject.  Dr. Felten's critique of the Milgrom-Bekenstein work was published in [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984ApJ...286....3F/abstract The Astrophysical Journal (1984, 286, pp. 3-6)]; page 5 of this article includes a ''Note added in manuscript 1984 June 6'' acknowledging these discussions.

In my (old-fashioned, paper) files, I have a record of insightful written exchanges that I had with a number of researchers throughout the decade of the 80s.  For example &hellip;
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In the spring of 1985, I received a package of documents from Dr. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Disney Michael Disney] (Cardiff, Wales). In addition to a wonderfully worded cover letter, the package contained a couple of thick draft articles in which he explored in a number of different directions what the implications would be of a modification to Newton's Law of the type I was proposing.  He had not previously seen my work on this topic, but his thoughts were so in tune with my own that I was sure he had read my mind!  It was wonderful to have heard from such a kindred spirit; his (draft) writings were like poetry, to me.  Toward the end of the decade, at the invitation of Mike Disney and his astronomy colleagues at University College, Cardiff, I spent ten very enjoyable and intellectually stimulating days visiting Wales.
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In early 1986, [https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/kuhn/kuhn2.html Jeff Kuhn] (Princeton, at the time) sent me a preprint of the paper he had written in collaboration with Kruglyak; he had heard of my work from Milgrom.  A brief exchange of letters followed.  An acknowledgement of my effort to examine the stability of cold stellar disks appears in their published paper [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987ApJ...313....1K/abstract (ApJ, 313, 1)].
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