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To: Right Wing Professor
It just occurred to be what this is. A few years back, Alan Sokal spoofed the Lit. Crit. crowd by writing a nonsensical article on quantum gravity and getting it published in a respectable Lit. Crit. journal. This is their revenge. They write a lame rehash of Zeno's paradox, use some obscure New Zealander as a front, and get it published in a physics journal with a, let's be kind and say liberal, editorial policy. In a few days, they'll hold a news conference and announce that physics' air of superiority over the humanities is entirely unjustified, and that physicists can't recognize BS disguised as physics. Or that payback's a bitch.

Bingo! There is no content in the paper as far as I can tell, just a bunch of technical sounding mumbo-jumbo. The key to your observation is at the bottom of page 4 where Lynds destroys all of the quantities in physics (momentum, energy, etc.) and finishes on page 5 with "Moreover, the universe's initial existence and progression through time would not be possible. Thankfully, it seems nature has wisely traded certainty for continuity".

163 posted on 08/01/2003 11:10:23 PM PDT by mikegi
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To: mikegi
There is no content in the paper as far as I can tell, just a bunch of technical sounding mumbo-jumbo.

Although the paper to which the post refers is not yet available, it's probably just a rewording of the Zeno paper online. In which case, there's not much to it.

165 posted on 08/02/2003 5:51:44 AM PDT by Nebullis
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