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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: A Solid-State thread (Was: Re: New Group sci.physics.orthodox)
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 12:03 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <2179@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, aw3@ukc.ac.uk (Alan Wilson) writes...
- >>
- >I'm not sure about the real physicists being driven out, but having
- >watched this group evolve for a year or so I definitely get the
- >impression that the coverage of physics is rather narrow and confined
- >to either fairly high level stuff on QM, GUT's and GR, or rather trivial
- >(but sometimes interesting) stuff at undergraduate level (mainly
- >mechanics, SR, FTL etc....). What is definitely missing is what the
- >vast majority of physicists do (myself included), which is use their
- >physics background in interdisciplinary research... I'm sure there are
- >lots of solid state experimentalists, materials scientists, theoreticians
- >etc, etc out there who are reading this newsgroup, but not contributing
- >because their expertise lies elsewhere (ie other than subjects listed
- >above).
- >
- >Come on - lets hear about other aspects of physics !!!!!......
-
- Absolutely. The problem seems to be that there are few people asking
- questions which would get threads started on these other areas of physics.
- But I for one would welcome the opportunity to hear more on more diverse
- subjects. So I'll try to start one. Let's see... OK. Can one of you
- normally silent types tell me a little about the most fundamental unanswered
- questions in solid-state physics?
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
-