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In article <1992Nov9.135719.18651@cs.yale.edu> jhh@waldzell.physics.yale.edu (Jim Horne) writes:
>In article <1deevpINNl33@bigboote.WPI.EDU> phillies@bigwpi.WPI.EDU  
>(George D. Phillies) writes:
>> Is it just me, or is the crackpot and fringe material
>> drowning out the real physics?  Perhaps it is time for
>> sci.physics.orthodox (moderated?)
>> 
>I think a much better name would be sci.physics.research, and it
>would have to be moderated, though lightly. There is already a  
>successful moderated group sci.math.research which could serve
>as an example of how to encourage substantive discussions of current
>research.
>
>> My motivation for this is the suspicion that this group 
>> is not in contact with the physics community at all.  
>> George Phillies
>> phillies@wpi.wpi.edu
>
>Yes, very few real physicists read sci.physics. Most have been driven
>out by the crackpots.
>Jim Horne
>jhh@waldzell.physics.yale.edu
> 
I'm not sure about the real physicists being driven out, but having 
watched this group evolve for a year or so I definitely get the
impression that the coverage of physics is rather narrow and confined
to either fairly high level stuff on QM, GUT's and GR, or rather trivial
(but sometimes interesting) stuff at undergraduate level (mainly
mechanics, SR, FTL etc....). What is definitely missing is what the
vast majority of physicists do (myself included), which is use their
physics background in interdisciplinary research... I'm sure there are
lots of solid state experimentalists, materials scientists, theoreticians
etc, etc out there who are reading this newsgroup, but not contributing
because their expertise lies elsewhere (ie other than subjects listed
above).

Come on - lets hear about other aspects of physics !!!!!......

Alan


ps As usual, my opinions only, perhaps nobody is interested in Fermi
surfaces, conduction mechanisms in metal oxides, or. (insert your research
topic here.............)

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Dr. Alan Wilson        (Approved by Morrissey, the consumer monkey)

" That was MY idea "
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