Re: A quote concerning randomness

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: 11 Oct 2004 16:42:42 GMT

Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> writes:

]Bill Unruh wrote:

][snip]
]> That would be the sixth unpublished letter in as many months. New Scientist
]> is getting to be highly unreliable on quantum matters.

]It seems indeed to be a common opinion that such popular-scientific
]periodicals often have features to share with newspapers and other
]common media and have usualls lots of letters to editors because
]of that. On the other hand, if you could spend enough effort to
]write a clear and strong refutation, you could write to the editor
]of the journal that published Tim Palmer's original paper (I
]suppose (conjecture) you also object to that and not only to
]Stewart's interpretation of it).

Journals publish articles, not letters. One could write an article on his
article. I would have to dive in much deeper than I have to do that.

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