From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T12:54:20+09:00
Subject: Re: pseudoscience.

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From: "Christian Szegedy" <szegedy@t-online.de>
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Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:52 PM
Subject: OT: pseudoscience.


> > In much the same way, I have seen relativity and quantum
> > mechanics brought up in literature courses. In every case,
> > the professor did not really understand what he was saying.
> 
> A hilarious (but true) story can be found here:
> 
> http://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal
> 
> Particularly interesting is the paper:
> "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of 
> Quantum Gravity"
> 
> and its afterword.

Yes, I saw this first about three years ago.
A truly wonderful story.

It is a shame that Richard Feynman did not
live to see it.

Hal