Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!debray From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Truth in Advertising? (Blackbodies, metaflame) Message-ID: <109@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 00:40:30 EST Article-I.D.: sbcs.109 Posted: Fri Nov 30 00:40:30 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:15:42 EST References: <2559@dartvax.UUCP> <642@watdcsu.UUCP> <380@x.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook Lines: 36 [ Extended quote from article claiming black bodies do not radiate heat ] > > WRONGO, CONS BREATH! > > My basic physics text: > "Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles" by > Robert Eisberg and Robert Resnick, (c) 1974 John Wiley and Sons, New York. > @begin(quote) > Example 1-2, page 7 (boy, this has to be basic): [ Even more extended quote from textbook showing, ad nauseam, how previous author is an utter ignoramus ] > -- > John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1114 > ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA While it's been argued that _anything_ goes in net.flame, I draw the line at turkeys belching forth huge quotes from physics texts ... I mean, really! If the principle being quoted is as basic as claimed, a simple reference to the appropriate law or equation should suffice; if it's not _that_ basic, it makes little sense to take someone to task for not knowing it. In any case, the transmission of zillions of characters over phone lines all over is unwarranted. It's also not clear what the title "Truth in Advertising" has to do with a long tirade on Kirchoff's Law of Radiation. Nor, for that matter, why the article was posted to net.cooks!! -- Saumya Debray, SUNY at Stony Brook uucp: {cbosgd, decvax, ihnp4, mcvax, cmcl2}!philabs \ {amd, akgua, decwrl, utzoo}!allegra > !sbcs!debray {tektronix, metheus}!ogcvax / CSNet: debray@sbcs