2003 onwards

Subject: Fwd: Reminiscences: 2003 onwards
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:09:03 EST

Yes seems as if all is OK now. I discussed the script with Larisa, and she is agreeable to give more details. My condition when she arrived here was actually much worse than I described. There are some nutters out there who will use anything to try to distort things and so on, so I have been cautious in my descriptions. However a skilled dramatist could make a lot out of this, emphasizing that truth will out eventually. A film needs dramatic dialogue. For example, when I first mentioned the depression, it was seized on by a hate mail groups to try to show that I am insane. This outraged the medical profession. When Gari Owen mentioned that I am a senior scientist by dint of merit, it was seized on by fringe politicians, and so on. A lot of people refused to believe that I had been appointed to the civil list. So caution is needed in view of these ancient mariner attitudes. These made their way into wikipedia, which in my case is about as objective as the NKVD, the People’s Commissariat for Thought Control in Science.

Dear Myron,

This is rich material for an happy ending for the film ‘The Life of Myron Evans’.

Perhaps it is now time to party!

Kerry

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Sent: Friday, 21 November, 2008 2:53:34 PM
Subject: Reminiscences: 2003 onwards

During 2003, Larisa and I gradually made things better here, we took long walks around the beautiful village of Carigcefnparc, and I was able to get fifteen papers published in FPL on ECE theory, establishing an unprecedented worldwide impact. I gradually managed to normalize life, bought a car, and so on. In March 2004 we were married in a civil ceremony witnessed by John James and hi slate wife Phyllis, and set out on a new life together. I was still being virulently attacked by hate mail and so on, but could see that ECE was overhwelming the bigots. In Spring 2005 I received a letter form the Prime Minister’s Office appointing me to the Civil List in recognition of distinguished contributions to Britain in science, the first such appointment in science in over a century. We also received an invitation to Buckingham Palace. The British Government has always recognized me fairly, but some (by no means all) of the academic scene comes out of this in a bad way.  From 2005 onwards Larisa and I started to build up this house again from a virtually empty shell and he daughters Kristina and Alina also arrived. Kristina graduated B. A. this year, and her design is used now as the logo of Swansea Metropolitan University. Alina started at Swansea Met this year and is already producing impressive photography. We are well used to the sad behaviour of some fringe pseudoacademics and it has no effect on us.  

During the years 2005 to end of 2007 the ECE theory gathered great momentum and at the end of 2007 a great boost to all our efforts occurred when Francesco Fucilla arrived on the scene. During 2005 and 2006 I had fought off some trivial criticisms by Hehl, and had exposed Bruhn as a jackbooted fraud. The AIAS was beginning to work efficiently as a team, and in 2007 AIAS and TGA merged to form an enlightened school of thought in physics.      

The year 2008 has been one of great advance, the Gold Medal Ceremony was held at Craig y Nos Castle and on that date, 7th July, I was awarded both armorial bearings and badge by the British Government. My arms were featured by the Government in a newsletter that contained some Knights, the Civil List appointment being commensurate with Order of Merit.

Being human like everyone else I need a steady family life, and to be able to settle down in one place. Larisa helped very much in all this, especially as she had to change cultures and had to go through times when we had essentially no income and were being dogged by some of the weirdest of pseudoacademic boneheads. The real academic world is taking intense interest in ECE, and I have respect for such real academia because I was educated at an excellent University in one of the best chemistry departments in British history. Kudo’s are nice of course, but a good family life is best of all. 

Both my first wife Laura and my second wife Larisa were a great help to me and the cooperation with Francesco has already produced an excellent film and a lot of industrial and academic work. I was invited this year again to Buckingham Palace, so things are going well. The interest adn help fo teh enlightened colleagues is of course greatly appreciated.