Condolence Messages

My condolences and sympathy to Tom's family and friends.

He touched many lives and will be missed.

I read "Dark Matter" in the 1990's, and now my children naturally think of gravity as pushing on us - because of Tom!

I know his legacy will continue for a long time, and hope it finds increasing acceptance and vindication!

With sorrow for our loss,
Glen

<hr noshade size="1">At this moment of reflection, a few quotes from Baha'u'llah that are relevant to Tom's Meta Model of the universe...
- <i>The one true God hath everlastingly existed, and will everlastingly continue to exist. His creation, likewise, hath had no beginning, and will have no end.</i>
- <i>Know thou of a truth that the worlds of God are countless in their number, and infinite in their range.</i>
- <i>The learned men, that have fixed at several thousand years the life of this earth, have failed, throughout the long period of their observation, to consider either the number or the age of the other planets.... Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.</i>

I'm so sorry to hear about the death of Tom, my thoughts go out to his family. He put up a brave fight; in everything he did; and he'll be sorely missed.

I was looking for some news about his Meta Model today in the internet and found that he had passed away. I feel very sad.

I have never met him personally, but I could hold my tears.

This man simply changed my life. I used to be a guy who followed the mainstream, basically because I thought the mainstream "could not be wrong" and so I kept trying to find logical ways to justify my beliefs. With his words spread in many places in the internet, he was telling me: "Hey, you don't need to believe them. You have other more logical explanations to same phenomena".

I sincerally hope someone will continue to work on his theories.

My condolences to all his family.

Some day in the future, he will be recognized as a genius of our time.

This is tragic news indeed, Tom was indeed a great man. standing up against the bigger part of the cosmology community proved that. The Ideas he had and tried to pass on to us trough his books and this site will not be forgotten I'm sure of it, they may have lost their front line champion but I assure you they will not be forgotten. The universe Tom lived in was a simple, understandable one based on a few rules alone and that made it beautiful.
Even if Toms theories never become anything more then meta-science, they did menage to make me more open to the science overall, to interpret data on my own and draw my on conclusions, not base them solely on someone else's words.

I feel a bit egoistic but I really hate that I never got to meet this man, I was actually thinking about inviting him to my future Master of Science disputation, even though I doubt he would come all the way to Sweden just for that.

Tom won't be forgotten, and I feel deeply for all of you who were left behind as he passed on.

/Fredrik Persson
Second year Physics student
Lund, Sweden.

I first met Tom about 50 years ago. I was working in GEs computer
center in Cincinnati. He was there as part of a work experience program GE had for students. He had written a Fortran program to enable members of the Moonwatch program to track satellites. I helped him get it running (very little help needed)on the IBM7090 (or 704) at the center.

We have exchanged a few messages over the years and I have been keeping up on his work. I was quite startled to hear of his death.

He will be much missed by many people.

Doneley Watson

Although not registered in the message board, I have followed Tom's work for years and now I have only registered to give my condolences to his family. I am very saddened by the death of Tom. A great man is gone. I have no doubt that their work will be recognized in the future. Again, my sincere condolences to his entire family.

Ricardo Alcafuz
MSc. Meteorology and Climatology