Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

["Dewey Dykstra, Jr." <dykstrad@EMAIL.BOISESTATE.EDU>]

> Joel makes a good point.  I don't think that there are gender or cultural
> viewpoints in physics.  If you think so, then please give an example.  The
> equations and results should be the same for all.
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> Steven T. Ratliff
> Associate Professor of Physics
> Northwestern College
> 3003 Snelling Ave. N.
> St. Paul,  MN     55113-1598
> U. S. A.
While it does make sense that if two different groups are trying to explain
the same class of phenomena to the same degree of precision, then under all
of the differences the two explanations would probably have analogous
features on *some* level, but this level could be pretty deep and pretty
abstract.  Again Roszak's book give a window on this.

Dewey


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still cherished by most authorities of the last century, that physical
science could offer a photographic picture and true image of reality
had to be abandoned."  --M. Jammer in Concepts of Force, 1957.

"If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make
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