Re: What is the meaning of "buck"?

Murray Arnow <arnow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[second reply, to the OT part]

The following is OT for AUE and a personal note to Jan:

I have followed your problems in the sci.physics.research and
sci.physics.foundations.

Correction: I have seen any problems in sci.physics.research ,
the group which has problems is sci.physics.foundations.

I agree with your position completely. Your
patience is exemplary. I long ago lost patience with those who claim to
understand physics yet can't see the obvious. That's why I don't post
too often in spr. I follow it as a pass-time not to be taken seriously.

I, too, quit spf. My reasons were very similar to yours.

It takes people of extraordinary quality and intellectual integrity
to moderate a newsgroup properly.
(in particular when the moderators themselves contribute much)
sci.physics.research is all right in this respect
as far as I am concerned, sci.physics.foundations
on the other hand is a miserable failure,
with moderation that has degenerated into censorship,
and threads that have degenerated into sometimes ludicrous nonsense.

I got really pissed-off at one moderator who is a mathematician and thinks
Hilbert's joke, that physics is too important to be left to physicists, is
to be taken seriously.

It wasn't a joke.
Hilbert tried very hard to steal the general theory of relativity
from Einstein, to the point of falsifying his preprints.
Einstein was furious at the time, but he couldn't do a thing about it.

This character firmly believes that progress depends on
physics having a mathematically rigorous foundation. And as you noticed,
the moderators do show considerable bias in what they allow posted.

An old professor who taught me some of these things once said:
'Only naive people believe that a science is built on its foundations'.
It may have been a quote.

Best,

Jan

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