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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!lordSnooty
  2. From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: Super-Strings
  5. Message-ID: <74300@cup.portal.com>
  6. Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 19:59:28 PST
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  9. References: <1993Jan24.015612.4614@scorch.apana.org.au>
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  13. I wonder if the fad with string theory and superstrings is simply
  14. Occam's Razor in action, or is it perhaps something at a deeper
  15. level? I mean that one could just as easily have chosen a primitive
  16. of higher dimensionality.
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  18. | lord snooty @the giant |  inceptus clamor frustratur hiantes             |
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