Re: [asa] important physics result announced today (fwd)

I sent this link to some co-workers yesterday. One of them mentioned
his favorite physics spoof, which fooled the editors of a social
science journal:
Alan D. Sokal, ``Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a
Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,'' Social Text #46/47
(spring/summer 1996): 217-252.
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/
transgress_v2_singlefile.html

Here's a discussion of the spoof by the author:
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/noretta.html

Kirk

On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:01 AM, gordon brown wrote:

> I don't have time to read this right now, but maybe some physicist
> can tell us what it is all about. My quick glance at it made it
> appear that it was in the context of string theory and that it said
> that some dimensionless constant pi might vary with time and help
> to explain the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. Maybe
> ten seconds of skimming isn't enough for me to have given the
> correct description.
>
> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
>
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