>http://www.marckbeggs.com/ALF/2000/taylor.html
>
>Reference's "The Donald's" theory with excerpts. Interesting reading. Woul=
>d love to read Mr. Davis' publication, in English or German - apparently it=
> was also widely translated....
>
>julia germany
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Jones <pjca...@gwi.net>
>To: Carl Pagano <pagan...@comcast.net>
>Cc: Southwestern Region <s...@caver.net>; DONALD DAVIS <dgda...@nyx.net>
>Sent: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 4:59 pm
>Subject: Re: [SWR] Dilation theory.
>
>Carl, I think you're on to something here. I agree, it would be great to h=
>ave The Donald's theory published again. Donald???=E2=80=A6.
>
>Peter
>
>
>On Sep 7, 2013, at 3:21 PM, Carl Pagano wrote:
>
>, it would be worth publishing again given the increased number of sinkhole=
>s. The world is beginning to collapse on itself because there aren't enough=
> people who believe that it is hollow anymore. It used to be that people th=
>ought the world was hollow. Cavers promoted this theory, but with the closu=
>re of so many caves due to ignorance, the world doesn't know just how many =
>hollow places there are/were, and so they are de-dilating.=20
> Carl=E2=80=A6.
As the Dilation Theory author, I believe that Dr. Pagano's brilliant
extrapolation is entirely consistent with the Theory. Unless the agencies
open caves again, the earth is in peril, and may end up as a black hole!
Here's the header of my personal file of the article (available in
MS Word .DOC format on request), giving some of the publication history:
[This revolutionary scientific paper originally appeared in Virgin
Passage, June 1982 (Colorado Mines Grotto). It was republished in NSS
News, Dec. 1983; and in Geo2 (journal of the Cave Geology & Geography
Section of the NSS), Winter 1995; and has been printed in translation in
German, Swiss and Norwegian journals, indicating worldwide acceptance of
its definitive speleogenetic paradigm.--author's note, Dec. 1999.]
Rich Wolfert's account (that came in as I write this) of the genesis
of the Dilation Theory is correct. I dashed it off in pencil as we were
on the road to Denver, just as a whimsical joke. It is totally outside my
normal style; I've never quite understood why it caught on so well as to
become by far the most popular and best-known of all my writings. It does
explain, in a cockeyed way, a great many things--sometimes I can't help
wondering if it might actually be *true* (a terrifying thought!)
The translation history in my summary above is from word of mouth (a
Spanish translation is also rumored); I don't recall that I have copies of
any of the non-English versions--I'd like to get hold of them, if anyone
else has. It would also be amusing if a speaker of any of those languages
would render a literal translation back into English. Mark Twain did that
with a French translation of his Jumping Frog story; the result was
funnier than the original.
--Donald
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