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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Subject: Re: Structure of Time
- In-Reply-To: st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 28 Jul 92 12:06:21 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:17:04 GMT
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- st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) writes:
-
- > Could it be that the reason fewer young ladies are interested in
- > physics and cosmology nowadays is because they receive such rough
- > treatment at the hands of know-it-all netters? It seems to me that for
- > a little
- > girl of 5 years old to even know about neutrinos and radiation and
- > electricity is quite a bit to ask.
-
- This guy's 5-year-old doesn't know a neutrino from a potato-pancake.
- She babbles stories that a 5-year-old would think up, and her father
- believes that her stories are God speaking to him allegorically, so he
- "interprets" what she says as being about physics and the "structure
- of time".
-
- > After all , it was only ten years ago or less that the rage in cosmology
- > was to dream up new particles and determine what effect they might
- > have on the universe. Why not the space potato? It's no more exotic
- > than many particles which well-known theorists have published papers on, and
- > are no more likely to exist than the space potato.
-
- I must admit, I thought it rather exotic of him to list the Bible in
- his bibliography.
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