Re: Password for sci.physics: Problem of the Day

> > Post a new and simple physics problem at 12:01 AM every day.
> > The answer should be numerical. Require that the answer be the
> > first Item on the subject line of any post to sci.physics. Have the
> > news server allow access to sci.physicsonly for those posts with
> > the correct answer. The news server would remove the answer
> > from the header before publishing. Those with incorrect answers
> > would be posted to sci.physics_falsified_theories or some such.
> >
> > This would probably get rid of 95 % of the kooks on sci.physics.
> > Certain to get rid of the likes of OsherD, Nick, and EMy.
> >
> > Think of the benefits to sci.physics.relativity if the problems were
> > restricted to SR !
> >
> > [Old Man]


An interesting idea, but I dont know hwo you would adjust for different
levels of expertese.

Also, scientific progress has always involved a churning cauoldron of
kookyness, from which truth somehow emerges.

I myself may even be a crank, but at least I know some calculus, and I try
to be polite & even solicit criticism because maybe my ideas really are
wrong. I have no way of knowing unless I keep on chipping away at it.

But when you consider someone like James Harris, it seems that restrictions
are in order. The man has been posting nonsense for over 5 years, with the
explicit intent of wasting people's time. It is an act of academic sabotage.







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