Re: A China-Sumer connection?

phippsmartin_at_hotmail.com
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: 5 Mar 2005 18:22:43 -0800

Comm wrote:

> I'm guessing. Are you a physicist? I'd say why I guess that - but
not be
> specific on usenet, not on usenet.

I studied physics for ten years and taught physics at the university /
college level for two years but now that I'm in Taiwan I am teaching
English.

> You "think" sort of like that,
> imo - it's just a "feel." A guess.

Maybe the difference is that the physical sciences has a practical
side: an engineer isn't concerned about what is "true" in the absolute
sense; he isn't even worried about "how" things work; he just wants to
be able to make things work the way he intends. So there's a certain
push to create theories that describe the world and then amend those
theories based on new experimental evidence. Of course, that's the
scientific method and it proves very useful in the realm of the
physical sciences. For archaelogy, and maybe any social science,
there's seems to be a reluctance to discuss ideas that aren't already
generally accepted. I suppose the problem is that you get more "kooks"
in archaelogy than in the physical sciences, so maybe that's the
problem.

Martin

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