The Thomas Townsend Brown Family Website

May 25, 1973

Mr. Townsend Brown
P.O. Box 1565
Avalon, California 90704

Dear Mr. Brown,

Thank you for your letter of 17 May. Several of us here have looked at what you sent, and there is general agreement that it deserves some further looking into. I have taken the liberty of sending copies of your letters to Professor J. Weber, and to Dr. J.T. of Bell Laboratories. Dr. T. in particular has previously been interested in possible sources - other than gravitational waves - which might explain the Weber results.

It is almost impossible that your experiment was sensitive to gravitational waves; but it is not impossible that you were detecting a phenomenon which could have some bearing on the Weber experiment. Possibly your results should be submitted for publication to a suitable journal even at this late date. Before we can advise you on this, however, we would need more specific information on exactly what was being measured: geometry, size and composition of the dielectric; how it was monitored; circuitry used and how it was shielded; and particularly how the raw data was reduced statistically to the graphs you enclosed.

We would be very interested in details of this sort if they are available. Naturally we would not make any use of the information without your explicit permission.

If you are ever on the mainlain, do drop in and pay us a visit.

Yours truly,

William P.
Tolman Research Fellow in Physics