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Re: Bashing over particle physics.

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From: Johan Wevers
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 09:12
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jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
>Anything that calls itself "super" is likely to be a bunch of baloney.
>E.g.:  
>
>supersymmetry (in particle physics)
>superconducting supercollider
>superstrings
>
This kind of attitude towards particle physics seems to become rather
common under some other diciplines. Why didn't you mention superconductance
and superfluidity ?

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Subject: Re: Bashing over particle physics.
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