June 17, 2005

Publisher Won't Run Papers by Authors in Countries Subject to U.S. Trade Embargo

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

POLITICAL HEAT: Physicists can predict the fate of the universe and the path of subatomic particles, but they have no equations to calculate the effects of politics. Masoud Darbandi learned that lesson last month, when his paper on heat and air currents was banned from The Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer.

The problem wasn't with the quality of the manuscript, titled "Numerical Simulation of Thermobuoyant Flow With a Large Temperature Variation." The journal had sent the

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