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From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Hear, Hear to Dan Rokhsar
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 21:33:14 EDT
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> 
> 	Like Dan I too would like to see more restrictions on the
> 	contents of net.physics.  If people wish to discuss mental
> 	telepathy and the like they should be somewhere else.  I, for
> 	one, would like to see more discussions of the real issues -
> 	alternate views of QM, supersymmetry theory and the like.
>       ..  .  
> 				Chuck Wegrzyn

Real issues??  I like discussions about mental telepathy, IF they would
suggest some sort of basis in physics (a model) that could explain it.
It certainly seems like the physics basis for a number of concepts developed
long after the general psyche (i. e. science fiction stories) 
described such concepts quite accurately. Take for example the laser.  
It now has been seriously proposed as a kind of death ray.  It is 
almost that if such a thing is conceived it will be.  And, maybe more 
thought should be given to assuming that "telepathy, spirits, ball 
lightning"  do exist and we should play the thought game of devising 
the physics to explain it.  Then we can devise a technique to 
reproduce it for all to know or experience.

Super symetries seem to be like describing planetary motions with epicycles.
But to each his own.  Keep up the interesting garbage.  It will disappear
when people tire of it.  

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