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- From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
- Subject: Re: The Future of Physics
- Message-ID: <phfrom.219@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:17:49 GMT
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- jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
-
- >alexa@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alexander Anger) writes:
-
- >>[..] I once thought
- >>physics was to be a search for truth
-
- I continue to think that..
-
- >>based on experimental observation,
- >>and not a mental excercise in symbol manipulation.
-
- Why that flame ? Do you think that an appropriate exact, unique language
- for the description, and explanation, of your observations and
- experiments is not needed ? What experiments would you do next it
- theory would not give a hint now and then ? What do you want to do with
- the results of your experiments ? Just store on a floppie ?
-
- >>But some theoreticians
- >>forgot.
-
- .. instead I am a theoretist.
-
- >> [vote for applied science only deleted]
- >> $8 billion [..] ([..] it'll really cost twice that much) [..]
-
- First of all, some G$ over many years are a *small* percentage of your
- nation's budget, which compares well with those other countries spend
- and the US spent in the past.
-
- Second, this money is not thrown away, but invested in paying high-quality
- (and rather safe) scientific jobs. But that subject was beat to death...
-
- [John's good defense of math'l phys deleted]
-
- >[..] particle physics is a
- >problematic use of government money, [..]
- >because it costs a lot of money [..]
-
- I disagree (see above).
-
- >[..] tachyons (which do not exist) [..]
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Can you prove this ?
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