A Quantum Diaries Survivor

Today I could not helping laughing out loud in the middle of the lounge of Hotel Hermitage, alone with my computer, to the dismay of the luckily few bystanders. I was reading the comments to a post in Peter Woit's blog where he discusses feedback to his new book, "Not Even Wrong" (see also a previous post here).

Apparently, the arguing between string theory aficionado, Prof. Lubos Motl (from Harvard University) and several supporters of Peter's skepticism on string theory, has reached a new level of discussion: parody.

Here is the unabridged text of a comment by Chris Oakley (http://www.cgoakley.demon.co.uk/index.html) in the thread about the book in Peter's blog (http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=401#comments):

ZZRRRFKLG (Lubos’s controller): Give me one reason, one reason why I should not bust you back down to teaching arithmetic to pre-school kids? I sent you to Earth to set back their science fifty years or more, and it looks like they’ve rumbled you already!

LUBOS (grovelling): But master, surely you appreciate the ingeniousness of my feigned opposition to the Anthropic Landscape?

ZZRRRFKLG: It’s not enough, Skrrzlgk [NB: his real name]. You did not take account of that asshole Peter Woit! It looks like people are going to take his book seriously! And what if the best mathematical brains on that pathetic planet start doing science again? Then where will we be?

SKRRZLGK: It was your fault! You would not let me use the Quantum Entanglement Ray on him! I told you he was dangerous!

ZZRRRFKLG: Do not question my wisdom, fool! You know nothing. And what’s with all this political crap on your web site? Stick to the primary mission or your next assignment will be in the Kindergarten!