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Dear James E. Hetrick:                                   May 2, 1994.

What is the use of your description to those of us whose background in
theoretical modern physics is limited to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics?
How can we think in terms of quarks and gluons when QED and QCD (quantum
electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics) are nothing but the names of
tools which we have never used to solve problems? I am afraid that departures
from traditional "axioms", such as repulsion of unlike charges, can have
adverse effects on teaching introductory physics courses. Most axioms
were arbitrarily chosen to satisfy the principle of simplicity. We must
agree on the meaning of the term simplicity. How can "the highest level so
far devised" be evaluated in terms of its simplicity?

Teaching at "the highest level that can be made meaningful" to students
is likely to be the most productive. Your note was intersting; it motivates
to learn theoretical modern physics.

                                                     Sincerily yours,
                                                     Ludwik Kowalski
e-mail adress: Kowalski@Montclair.Apollo.edu