If one can believe TV shows, antiques dealers are a bunch of rogues hoping to fleece old dears out of a fortune by giving them a tiny payout for some valuable item they've kept in the attic for decades and don't realise the true value of.
On 2 March 2014 12:34, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday, February 28, 2014 8:54:19 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > information does need a substrate in which to manifest. >>> >> >> That seems to be the case but perhaps not at the very lowest level. The >> integers are abstract things that aren't made of anything except other >> numbers and once you describe how they interact with other mathematical >> objects you've said all there is to say about them. In the same way in >> string theory the strings aren't made of anything and they have reality >> only in how they interact with other strings; so perhaps at the fundamental >> level reality not only can be described mathematically but actually IS >> mathematical. >> >> On a completely different subject, are you Edgar Owen the antiquities >> dealer? If so you have a pretty cool job. >> >> John K Clark >> > > He's so not as cool as me. I'm like - antiques dealing is not for me. But > tracking down rare antiquities in a bashed up fedora I will so like do > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
