On Saturday 07 September 2002 10:54 pm, Hal E. Fulton wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christian Szegedy" <szegedy / t-online.de> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby > To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org> > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:52 PM > Subject: OT: pseudoscience. > > > > In much the same way, I have seen relativity and quantum > > > mechanics brought up in literature courses. In every case, > > > the professor did not really understand what he was saying. > > > > A hilarious (but true) story can be found here: > > > > http://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal > > > > Particularly interesting is the paper: > > "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of > > Quantum Gravity" > > > > and its afterword. > > Yes, I saw this first about three years ago. > A truly wonderful story. > > It is a shame that Richard Feynman did not > live to see it. > I wish like hell that my Literary Criticism professor had seen it. > Hal