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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: proposed panel of moderators
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 21:48:47 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- References: <1993Jan9.002324.22505@galois.mit.edu> <478@mtnmath.UUCP> <1993Jan9.182355.20379@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan9.182355.20379@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >In article <478@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan9.002324.22505@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- > 'Not even wrong' is a succinct way of saying that the phrase
- > 'muons decay because of their innate desire to be free' would
- > be unacceptable. In my view, this would not necessarily apply
- > to postings about philosophy of QM.
-
- Lovely. Metaphor is rejected out of hand. Schrodinger's cat
- will be very disappointed to know that he's dead.
-
- > It is inappropriate to consider the name of the poster when
- > making moderation decisions, but if a posting reaches
- > the level of being clearly wrong, it should not be acceptable.
-
- Lovely. Refutable argumentation is rejected out of hand.
- Sort of like we don't even need to discuss it if it's
- going to be discussed... this sort of infringes on
- Joseph Heller's copyright, wot?
-
- > I'm not going to speak for John, but it seems to be the re-hashing
- > process that is the sticking point. It should not be all that
- > difficult to determine when a thread is only plowing up a field
- > previously tilled with the same plow and to coax the participants
- > onto new ground.
-
- Lovely. Reasoning by group induction is rejected out of
- hand. Heaven help us if we need to make a refutable
- assumption about a metaphorical situation in a
- gedankenexperiment involving the contradiction of a
- self-supporting conjecture.
-
- > Maybe we should be more positive in what we are talking about.
- > In my view, we should encourage vigourous and substantial discussion
- > in all areas of physics.
-
- Viva Caloric!
-
- --Blair
- "Methinks the candidates
- doth protest too little."
-