Professor Jerry lines 'em up

Jerry Friedman · 03 Dec 2002, 23:26 · from urth-v0212.mbox · original

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Professor Jerry lines 'em up
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:26:00 -0800 (PST)
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--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> wrote:
> Jerry Friedman wrote:
> >Thanks, Blattid.  I probably shouldn't mention that I have a
> >Ph. D. in physics, since then people might stop arguing with me
> >about physics, and as my students could tell you, I do make
> >mistakes.
>=20
> Well call me bushwacked.

I apologize.  When I thought about it, I thought that my reasons for
not mentioning my Ph. D. were better than my reasons for revealing it,
so I probably should have stayed "in the closet".

> <Curious to see what Professor Jerry will say about using t and t(o).>

That works, but I still like my suggestion of "Urth time" and "Whorl
time".  To me, that's precisely what you're talking about--how long
it's been according to timekeeping on Urth and on the _Whorl_.

By the way, we covered S. R. in my Conceptual Physics class today,
and I used rough approximations to your numbers as an example, with a
plug for TBotLS.  Thanks!

[After they allowed me to escape with a Ph. D., my only association
with physics has been teaching it at community colleges, so I'm not
a professor--or a real physicist, as Dan'l called me.]

Jerry Friedman

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