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  1. Xref: sparky sci.physics:23558 alt.sci.physics.new-theories:2863 sci.skeptic:22920 alt.paranormal:2858
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!biosci!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!schultz
  3. From: schultz@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Schultz)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal
  5. Subject: Re: New Physics,Healing & Paranormal 2 "White Paper"
  6. Message-ID: <1k6e32$91p@agate.berkeley.edu>
  7. Date: 27 Jan 93 16:43:14 GMT
  8. References: <C1H5D6.6Jr@well.sf.ca.us>
  9. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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  13. In article <C1H5D6.6Jr@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Brian
  16. >Josephson, a Nobel Prize Laureate in physics at Cambridge University thinks
  17. >that complex living systems, which unlike inorganic matter are not in
  18. >thermal equilibrium. . .
  19.  
  20. I don't know much from physics, so I really can't judge whether the "physics"
  21. Sarfatti presents is the babble it appears to be.  I am, however, a chemist.
  22. It's possible, I guess, that  Josephson and Sarfatti have a really strange 
  23. definition of life (one that includes, say, the earth's atmosphere, which is 
  24. an immediately obvious example of "inorganic matter" that isn't at thermal 
  25. equilibrium).  More likely, to my way of thinking, is that this obvious
  26. simple blunder says something else entirely about Sarfatti's competence as
  27. a physicist.  Or rather, lack of competence.
  28.  
  29.                     Richard Schultz
  30.