Re: [Phys-L] The Make-Believe World of Real-World Physics

[David Craig <craigda@lemoyne.edu>]

John-

On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:02 PM, John Denker wrote:
> On 07/09/2013 12:07 PM, you wrote:
> > A recent post highlighted this blog entry on a presentation by Mazur:
> >
> > <http://sciencegeekgirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/the-make-believe-world-of-real-world-physics-eric-mazur/>
> >
> > I invite you all to consider the example from the presentation the
> > blog highlights under the heading "Physics is Different".    I have
> > some fairly strong opinions concerning the supposed "lessons" of this
> > example and ones like it, but before I inject my views, I'd be
> > interested in some discussion by the list.
>
> Suggestion:  You may get more and better responses if you more
> clearly specify which slide(s) you are talking about.  Explicit
> page numbers might help.

Search the blog post, not the presentation.

> While you're at it, you might mention that if one strips away several 
> layers of indirection and obfuscation, the 155-page PDF document can 
> be found at
>  http://mazur.harvard.edu/sentFiles/MazurTalk_1396.pdf


Thanks,
David Craig


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