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In article <2179@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, aw3@ukc.ac.uk (Alan Wilson) writes...
>> 
>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 !!!!!......

Absolutely.  The problem seems to be that there are few people asking
questions which would get threads started on these other areas of physics.
But I for one would welcome the opportunity to hear more on more diverse
subjects.  So I'll try to start one.  Let's see... OK.  Can one of you
normally silent types tell me a little about the most fundamental unanswered
questions in solid-state physics?  

-Scott
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				 been a single cell so long ago myself that I 
				 have no memory at all of that stage of my 
				 life." - Lewis Thomas