Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 19:02:21 -0400
Subject: Re: marxism2-digest V1 #146


This "silly" mind finds it a little hard to read these two passages and not
come to the conclusion that Rahul wants to have it both ways.

>Who was concluding any such thing? I know a fair amount of non-nonsensical
>talk of time and space.

>This is false. The "best of the social and historical thought on time and
>space" is not, and could not possibly be, worth a hill of beans. The last
>time there was even the slightest thing that any other discipline could
>teach physics about time and space was the early 19th century, when
>geologists discovered a few decades ahead of physicists that the earth, and
>therefore the universe, was at least tens of millions of years old. Time
>and space are as fundamentally part of the domain of physics as are the
>interactions of elementary particles. Without learning the relevant
>physics, no one will have any more that's worth saying about time and space
>than they will about the charge of the electron.

The second passage is completely dismissive of all the work of the social
organization of time and space, at the same time that it declares physics to
be in possession of all truth on the subject. IMHO, it is the mirror image of
the anti-science discourse it takes such delight in perpetually lampooning.



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