On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:54 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: > Nick, > I hope you are not arguing that cutting edge sci-fi writers should get > endowed chairs in physics on the basis of their scientific accomplishments!
Actually, I think it is only *bad* fiction writers that get the endowed chairs. ;D String theory certainly looks like nothing so much as a -- sometimes elegant, sometimes brittle and byzantine -- interpretive art form. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
