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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: proposed panel of moderators
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 21:27:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.171134.29230@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca> andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge) writes:
- >Presuming that people criticising the proposed panel of moderators are
- >in favour of creating sci.physics.research, why not try to proceed as
- >fast as possible to create such a group, give a chance to the proposed
- >moderators to prove their worth as such and see what happen?...
-
- I think we are proceeding as fast as possible. Presumably Austern will
- call for a vote any minute now.
-
- >I'm one of the research physicist who's been following sci.physics on
- >a *very* irregular basis, mostly because I was turned off by lots
- >of #### that appeared there.
-
- Good - I *know* there are a lot of such people, but for some mysterious
- reason very few of them are visible on sci.physics, so it is hard to
- prove their existence. :-)
-
- >I can't wait for a Call For Vote to support
- >such a group and enjoy "good physics" posts. Who knows, I might get
- >the nerves to ask publicly one of the moderator to explain what he meant
- >where he said something to the effect that the Dirac sea explanation
- >was not needed with the proper use of C* algebra (or something like that).
- >Perhaps he already did, but I wasn't reading sci.physics at the time....
-
- Please do ask (when sci.physics.research is in place)! Or maybe I will
- simply go ahead and answer. One doesn't really need C*-algebras, by the
- way, one just needs a good understanding of the role of complex
- structures -- that is, the number i -- in quantum mechanics.
-
- I'm planning on writing some advanced expository articles on
- sci.physics.research -- if and only if it is created. Hopefully this
- will help jumpstart it. Complex structures is one nice topic. I also
- want to talk about Crane and Yetter's amazing new paper on 4-dimensional
- topological quantum field theories.
-