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- From: merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: 2 of 4 moderators not qualified for sci.phys.research
- Message-ID: <MERRITT.93Jan21104028@macro.bu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:40:28 GMT
- References: <C16zu7.5oq@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Organization: Boston University Physics Department
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- In-reply-to: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us's message of 21 Jan 93 07:08:31 GMT
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- In article <C16zu7.5oq@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
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- > I'm for a moderated physics gorup. But looking at the posted CV only
- > John Baez is really qualified by formal trainin. Johnson is next best
- > but he is an experimentalist and most of stuff is theory. It would be
- > good to have a separate experimental conference. Dale Bass dos not even
- > have a Ph.D. and his field is not physics but engineering. And the other
- > fellow is more a chemist than a physicist.
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- Honestly I don't think there is anyone "qualified" for the job.
- I don't see how anyone can due this job fairly and it rubs against
- the grain to think we need them.
-
- That being said I suggest we shut the hell up and stop talking about this!
- Let's vote (the vote is under way, see the second call for votes).
- I think we should give it a go as an experiment. It may well fail under
- it's own weight of pretention. If it works then we have something of
- use. At the present I am of the attitude; Let's wait and see.
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- And now we return to discussions about PHYSICS.
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-
- -sjm
-
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- Sean J. Merritt |"Road-kill has it's seasons just like
- Dept of Physics Boston University|anything, there's possums in the autumn
- merritt@macro.bu.edu |and farm cats in the spring." T. Waits
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