sci.physics.research is a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of research-oriented physics questions. The newsgroup was created in early 1993, and this archive was established in October of 2000. It currently contains posts back to November of 1998 (if you have a source of older posts, please contact dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu).
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