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jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:

>alexa@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alexander Anger) writes:

>>[..]  I once thought
>>physics was to be a search for truth 

I continue to think that..

>>based on experimental observation,
>>and not a mental excercise in symbol manipulation.  

     Why that flame ? Do you think that an appropriate exact, unique language
     for the description, and explanation, of your observations and 
     experiments is not needed ? What experiments would you do next it 
     theory would not give a hint now and then ? What do you want to do with
     the results of your experiments ? Just store on a floppie ?

>>But some theoreticians
>>forgot.  

.. instead I am a theoretist.

>> [vote for applied science only deleted]
>> $8 billion [..] ([..] it'll really cost twice that much) [..]

First of all, some G$ over many years are a *small* percentage of your
nation's budget, which compares well with those other countries spend
and the US spent in the past. 

Second, this money is not thrown away, but invested in paying high-quality
(and rather safe) scientific jobs. But that subject was beat to death...

[John's good defense of math'l phys deleted]

>[..] particle physics is a
>problematic use of government money, [..]
>because it costs a lot of money [..]

I disagree (see above).

>[..] tachyons (which do not exist) [..]
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
               Can you prove this ?
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