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From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: questions: light, time, psychic phenomenon (scifi?)
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Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 16:23:47 EDT
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> 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.

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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
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