Re: Aether is the empty space in which the Universe sits

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:34:14 +0000 (UTC)

In article <qkONc.1415$qo6.642@news.uswest.net>,
David Thomson <news3 @ spam.me.not volantis.org> wrote:
>"Bilge" <dubious@radioactivex.lebesque-al.net> wrote in message
>news:slrncge9rs.5ur.dubious@radioactivex.lebesque-al.net...

>Unlike you, I don't have access to $1000 per year journal subscriptions, nor
>do I have the funds to subscribe. Just recently I had to actually purchase
>a paper from Physical Review Letters and it cost $22.50 for 4 pages. The
>only people who can afford to read these publications are rich people and
>people working for educational institutions and labs. Maybe if I lived near
>a good university library I could have access to these journals, but I live
>an hour's drive from good university libraries and can't afford the travel
>expense.

Try an inter-library loan through your local branch library. Always try
to find the journal on the web, as some of them will offer many or all
articles free of charge. Also try the arXives, many results are
published there first, and some older papers have found their way in. 

-- 
"The result of this experiment was inconclusive, so we had to use 
statistics."  (Overheard at international physics conference)

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