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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Structure of Time
- Message-ID: <mcirvin.712370138@husc8>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 00:35:38 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.102429.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> <1992Jul28.175239.10109@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <24986@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul28.175239.10109@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
- >>[some stuff deleted]
- >>What you have posted does not even begin to follow what is called the
- >>scientific method. Physicists love the truth, but random babbling is
- >>not truth.
- >>[some more stuff deleted]
- >Yow! That's a little harsh, don't you think? Plenty of folks, sometimes
- >even intentionally, post nonsense to this group. I probably do it now
- >and then by mistake. I don't think his job should be at risk because
- >he chooses to interact with us in the only way he knows how.
-
- Also, there are many theorists like me in this group, and I'm
- not sure that anything we say could be construed as "scientific
- method," let alone "truth." We don't obtain our information from
- small children, but we don't check our musings by building
- experiments either... that's someone else's job.
-
- Inappropriate postings will abound in any unmoderated group.
- So will mistakes, hallucinations, massive crossposts, etcetera.
- I'd hate to have my erroneous babbling about supersymmetry on
- this group when I was a rank newbie brought up as evidence in my
- qualifying oral exam.
-
- Our best defense is to swamp the noise with signal.
-
- --
- Matt McIrvin mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu
-