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- From: lizi@soda.berkeley.edu (Cosma Shalizi)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Interview with Steven Weinberg about Final theory
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:21:14 GMT
- Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu (Berkeley Tentacle)
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- References: <1993Jan16.233213.25301@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1993Jan18.021834.6630@math.ucla.edu> <Jan.18.13.39.26.1993.15772@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Jan.18.13.39.26.1993.15772@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
- >Actually, string theorists have already succeeded in coming up with the
- >Final Theory, answering all questions of physics, and so on. But they
- >realized that if they just came right out with it all, it would instantly
- >kill off their entire field - in fact, particle theory would become
- >obsolete and administrations might use this as an excuse for wholesale
- >eliminations of faculty lines, etc. So they burned the manuscripts, so to
- >speak. Kind of like Texaco suppressing Free Energy, or our favorite:
- >EVIL PHYSICISTS ARE HIDING THE TRUTH !!
- Actually, I once worked out with some friends the ultimate conspiracy
- theory. Part of it involved Demokritos of Abdera's propounding the
- Ultimate Theory in his _Greater World-System_ about -450 - a remarkable
- accomplishment, since computers were not invented until the time of
- Archimedes... and all of this, mind you, from the postulate that World War
- III has already happened. We had a lot of time on our hands.
- Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
- In Real Life: lizi@soda.berkeley.edu
- larval physicist
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