Has Physics Gone Nuts?

2006-01-10 Thread Zell, Chris
Forgive this rant, but I couldn't resist. I came across a paper called Alteration of Nuclear Beta Decay by Non-Nuclear Strong Fields ( Laser Physics Vol. 9 No.1 1999 pp. 92-97) It asserts that beta decay in radioactive elements could be triggered by external applied EMF - and that this could

Re: Has Physics Gone Nuts?

2006-01-10 Thread leaking pen
i think leon lederman put it best. In The God Particle, he outlined the two distinct schools that have developed, the theorist and the experimenter. there are those that come up with the math, the theory, and then those that get up and actually do it. it used to be one and the same, but its become

RE: Has Physics Gone Nuts?

2006-01-10 Thread R . O . Cornwall
... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of leaking pen Sent: 10 January 2006 16:08 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Has Physics Gone Nuts? i think leon lederman put it best.  In The God Particle, he outlined the two distinct schools that have developed, the theorist

Re: Has Physics Gone Nuts?

2006-01-10 Thread Grimer
At 09:08 am 10/01/2006 -0700, you wrote: i think leon lederman put it best. In The God Particle, he outlined the two distinct schools that have developed, the theorist and the experimenter. there are those that come up with the math, the theory, and then those that get up and actually do it. it

Re: Has Physics Gone Nuts?

2006-01-10 Thread Edmund Storms
Yes Chris, physics has gone nuts. It has been taken over by people who believe the imagined world is more important than is the real world. Actually, the more I see how the real world is degenerating, the imagined world is looking better all the time. Ed Zell, Chris wrote: Forgive this

RE: Has Physics Gone Nuts?

2006-01-10 Thread Grimer
At 04:54 pm 10/01/2006 -, Remi wrote: There is a gift to doing physics. The best people at present are those trained in electrical engineering and cross over (Dirac, Feynman?) or the applied physicists. Farooq Abdullah who used to teach me taught his daughter electromagnetism as she studied

Re: Has Physics Gone Nuts?

2006-01-10 Thread Harry Veeder
At 04:54 pm 10/01/2006 -, Remi wrote: Too many mathematicians work this way, ok pure maths I can't do so I'll do applied which makes me a physicist. (The physicists then want to become engineers and the engineers get relegated to lowly technicians). The truth of the matter is that the