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- From: alexa@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alexander Anger)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:28:40 GMT
- Subject: Re: What if there were 2 time and 2 space dimensions?
- Message-ID: <1370052@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
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- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- References: <1992Jul14.143630.10942@galois.mit.edu>
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- In sci.physics, jbaez@nevanlinna.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
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- > As far as I can tell, this just goes to show that there are a lot of
- > mathematicians pretending to be physicists, and/or lots of physicists
- > who feel the need to publish a lot, because I can't think of any good
- > PHYSICAL reason for redoing fancy physics like supersymmetric Yang-Mills
- > theories in a universe with 2 space and 2 time dimensions! As a math
- > problem I suppose checking out how self-duality works in this signature
- > is rather fun if you like that sort of thing.
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- I seem to have found a like-minded individual here!
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- Alex
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