But this is clearly not intended to be a spoof. It's hilarious,
especially the footnotes.
bill powers
On Thu, 2
Apr 2009, Kirk Bertsche wrote:
> 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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