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- From: merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Reluctant call moder(and sci.physics.research-NOT!)
- Message-ID: <MERRITT.92Dec23122850@macro.bu.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:28:50 GMT
- References: <13DEC199211444059@utahep.uta.edu> <MERRITT.92Dec15162606@macro.bu.edu>
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Followup-To: sci.physics
- Organization: Boston University Physics Department
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- In-reply-to: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 16:23:08 GMT
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- %In article <MATT.92Dec21112308@physics2.berkeley.edu> matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes:
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- > In article <MERRITT.92Dec21110641@macro.bu.edu> merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt) writes:
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- > We don't need censorship here. Everyone is quite capable of choosing
- > for himself. This not a Journal of Physics. It is a great big
- > public-restroom-wall. People who feel that they cannot stand having
- > "Crackpots" should leave the group and start your own Facist/Moderated
- > group, which I will predict now will be a very boring place indeed.
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- % That, in fact, is exactly what I am proposing: not that sci.physics be
- % eliminated, or that it be moderated, but rather that we create a new
- % moderated group, sci.physics.research. sci.physics won't be affected
- % in any way.
- %
- % I don't think that a moderated group will necessarily be "fascist,"
- % but those who do object to moderated groups on principle can just keep
- % reading sci.physics instead.
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- Perhaps not facist, narrow sighted is a better term. I still think
- that it will be a very boring place. I have been reading
- sci.math.research and the topics are too specific and follow-ups
- scant.
-
- % It is my hope that we can find a middle ground between Phys. Rev.
- % Letters and a public restroom wall. At any rate, I'm disturbed by the
- % fact that so very few physicists actually use sci.physics; I have to
- % conclude that the newsgroup just isn't a very good place to talk about
- % physics.
-
- Correct. If your a graduate student you should be working on your thesis
- not reading the USENET(libraries are still the prefered source of info) .
- I you are a researcher chances are your reading USENET for a break,
- or relaxation(as might a grad student)in which case the last thing you
- want to do is discuss your reasearch.
-
- Can people learn about Physics form this group? Yes.
- The ways we learns physics are:
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- 1) Reading books and doing problems.
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- 2) Doing experiments.(including thought type)
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- 3) Talking with other knowledgeable people.
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- When I was a grad student the department set aside a class room for
- tutoring undergrads. When times were slow we go to the chalk board
- and "play" with physics and I learned more from my fellow grad
- students at that chalkboard than I did from any Prof. When
- undergrads did come they too were interested in what we were discussing.
- I see this group more like the chalk board in that classroom
- than a "public restroom wall.". I also see no need for the
- creation of another group as I feel USENET is already too
- diluted by schisms. Most new groups are created because a
- certain sect wants to silence others. On the rare happy occasion
- a new gorup is created to accomadte a truly new subject of
- interest. I believe that your "middle ground" exist in the
- minds of many of the readers in this group already.
-
- -sjm
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- --
- Sean J. Merritt | "Every revolt is a cry of innocence
- Dept of Physics Boston University| and an appeal to the essence of being."
- merritt@macro.bu.edu | Albert Camus, The Rebel
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