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Re: What if there were 2 time and 2 space dimensions?

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From: Alexander Anger
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:28
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In sci.physics, jbaez@nevanlinna.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:

>   As far as I can tell, this just goes to show that there are a lot of
>   mathematicians pretending to be physicists, and/or lots of physicists
>   who feel the need to publish a lot, because I can't think of any good
>   PHYSICAL reason for redoing fancy physics like supersymmetric Yang-Mills
>   theories in a universe with 2 space and 2 time dimensions!  As a math
>   problem I suppose checking out how self-duality works in this signature
>   is rather fun if you like that sort of thing.  

I seem to have found a like-minded individual here!

Alex
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From: alexa@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Alexander Anger)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:28:40 GMT
Subject: Re: What if there were 2 time and 2 space dimensions?
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