Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uvacs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: questions: light, time, psychic phenomenon (scifi?) Message-ID: <2243@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 16:23:47 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.2243 Posted: Sun Jul 14 16:23:47 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 03:56:52 EDT References: <369@sri-arpa.ARPA> Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville VA Lines: 28 > The point is not whether these "odd phenomena" are interesting or not, but > is this the appropriate bboard for such discussion. If you are interested in > discussing them, go to the proper forums, such as net.scifi or net.religion or > something. The net is already crowded with messages, and let us at least work > towards keeping things organised so that people don't have to waste time going > thru messages that do not interest them. > > - mayank. -- I'm not convinced that a technical discussion of psychic phenomena belongs anywhere *but* in a newsgroup dealing with scientific topics. (BTW, the term is SF not sci-fi -- that only applies to Japanese monster pictures.) A general complaint about the hard sciences has always been that they are to staid. New ideas take a long time to take root, but once they do, the ``new-wavers'' quickly become the ``old guard''. I think that it would be beneficial to the science as a whole to explore outre` ideas. Perhaps you've heard of Einstein, Planck, Hawking? As for wasted bandwidth on the net, I'm sure both your article and mine would qualify as such to *somebody*. Surely you don't think that tiring articles explaining why the sky is blue are any more informative or instructive. Or any less a waste of my time. -- Ray Lubinsky University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science uucp: decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!rwl