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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.sci.physics.new-theories
- Subject: Re: John Baez's remarks on "super"
- Message-ID: <Nov.23.14.31.50.1992.24923@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:31:50 GMT
- References: <By5Ewn.BFF@well.sf.ca.us>
- Followup-To: sci.physics
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- >Well John Baez you don't like "super"? How about superposition?
- >superstring? superfluid? superconductivity? superstition? supercilious?
-
- this was the context in which John originally objected to "super"
-
- >Are you saying that Princeton University supports crackpot science in their
- >PEAR laboratory headed by Dean of Engineering, Robert Jahn with money from
- >Mc Donnell Douglas and Federal Intelligence Community?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- yes.
- Especially, the 'intelligence agencies' (wotta oxymoron) are hardly
- proof of reputability. (See my quote) And Jahn is just another example
- of "older scientist goes slightly round the bend" syndrome - (e.g.
- Eddington).
-
- -Ben
- -----
- "When J. Edgar Hoover gives you a requirement for complete
- [telecommunications] surveillance of all Quakers in the United States,
- when Richard M. Nixon is a Quaker and he's the President of the United
- States, it gets pretty funny." - Frank Raven, retired NSA official
-