Re: A new paradigm?

[Larry Cartwright <exit60@CABLESPEED.COM>]

I don't get the woodpulp edition of the NY Times.  I think I've found
the article you're describing, but the title doesn't match.  

The online edition has a George Johnson article entitled "Challenging
Particle Physics as Path to Truth" at
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/science/physical/04SQUA.html> which
begins "In science's great chain of being, the particle physicists place
themselves with the angels, looking down from the heavenly spheres on
the chemists, biologists, geologists, meteorologists — those who are
applying, not discovering, nature's most fundamental laws. Everything,
after all, is made from subatomic particles. Once you have a concise
theory explaining how they work, the rest should just be filigree."

Is this the article you're talking about?

Best wishes,

Larry

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Larry Cartwright   <exit60@cablespeed.com>
Retired (June 2001) Physics Teacher
Charlotte MI 48813 USA 
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Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
> An interesting article by George Johnson in The New York
> Times today (December 4, 2001, Science Times section,
> page F1). The title is "New Contenders For a Theory of
> Everything." A clash between particle physicists and
> solid state physicists? Worth reading.