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   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> It seems to me that you haven't done any experimentation and just   
   >>>>>>>> repeats what others have already said.   
   >>>>>>>> Basically, you want to continue   
   >>>>>>>> believing in the status quo.   
   >>>>>>>> The only way, 'perhaps,' to convince you is to have you witness   
   >>>>>>>> long experimental PNN tests without further chatter.   
   >>>>>>>> But that's not possible.Besides it seems to me that you are not   
   convinced   
   >>>>>>>> that Lorentz force can exist in circuits in which alternate current   
   flows.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Regards   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Thank you for keeping Mr Sloman amused.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> It's Dr.Sloman.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Given a sound theoretical basis confirmed by experiment, it is our   
   >>>>> company policy to never hire PhDs.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That makes sense. The literature survey is an essential part of a any   
   >>>> Ph.D. thesis, and it has to demonstrate a capacity of for critical   
   >>>> thinking. John Larkin doesn't like criticism.   
   >>>   
   >>> Just four of the problems with PhDs:   
   >>>   
   >>> Years of being forced to kowtow to authority   
   >>   
   >> I don't recall doing much of that.   
   >>   
   >>> and   
   >>>   
   >>> Ingrained unwillingness to think crazy   
   >>   
   >> My Ph.D. work didn't proceed the way my supervisor had expected. There   
   >> wasn't anything crazy about using computers and modern electronics, but   
   >> he wasn't familiar with either - it didn't worry him, though he would   
   >> have liked it to go faster.   
   >>   
   >>> and   
   >>>   
   >>> Affection for complexity.   
   >>   
   >> Knowing what you are doing - not your strong suite - can lead to   
   >> elaborations that the less well-informed can see as unnecessary   
   >> complexity. My colleagues were known to describe me as "gadget happy"   
   >> but were happy enough to accept my help when writing computer programs.   
   >>   
   >>> and   
   >>>   
   >>> Lack of common sense   
   >>   
   >> You think that Trump has common sense. Anything that cures what he has   
   >> got has got to be a good thing.   
   >>   
   >>> Phil, of course, is the rare exception. The occasional dose of   
   >>> gin+tonic cures any residual academic side effects.   
   >>   
   >> Alcohol does make people stupid.   
   >>   
   >>> I've been to some meetings of physicists. They are brutal, instantly   
   >>> attacking any non-scientifically-defensible idea. Not a good   
   >>> brainstorming environment.   
   >>   
   >> They can probably spell defensible correctly too.   
   >>   
   >> You can waste a lot of time in brain=storming sessions on obviously   
   >> impractical ideas. Getting rid of them without inhibiting the expression   
   >> of the unconventional idea you want can be difficult. Not including   
   >> ignorant half-wits in the the brainstorming session is an easier solution.   
   >>   
   >>> Are chemists the same way?   
   >>   
   >> The ones I interacted with mostly knew what they were talking about,   
   >> which didn't prevent heated discussions.   
   >   
   >   
   > When I was in high school, I worked two summers in the physics   
   > department of LSUNO. MIcrowave spectroscopy and Mössbauer Effect   
   > mostly.   
   >   
   > They registered me as a fake student so they could pay me 50 cents per   
   > hour, made me student number 20,000.   
   >   
   > I noticed even then the streak of cruelty that runs through academic   
   > physics.   
      
   I can't say I've seen it. But you seem to be able to detect cruelty in   
   the less favourable responses you get here.You probably had even more   
   exaggerated ideas about your capabilities back then than you have now.   
      
   > The dean wanted me to be a physicist but I didn't like the   
   > vibe. Good choice I think: engineering is more fun.   
      
   The only gap I can see is between theoretical physics - which is   
   essentially a branch of applied math, and experimental physics which is   
   largely engineering. Win Hill started a Ph.D. in chemical physics, which   
   is a bit more physical than the physical chemistry where I got mine,   
   which was also mostly about engineering.   
      
   At Melbourne the physicists in my generation got their Ph.D.s by doing   
   vacuum plumbing on the Melbourne cyclotron, which wasn't all that   
   powerful or big. At least the Physics department library was petty well   
   stocked with electronics text-books and I did quite a lot of reading   
   there. My supervisor would have been happier if I'd done the reading in   
   the Chemistry Department library, which was next to his office but it   
   was short on the kind of books I needed to read.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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