Hywel was an experimental particle physicist and a regular Friam attendee. He had been a professor at Penn and Cornell and a group leader at Los Alamos. Once he said to me, "the number one does not exist". He meant that there is nothing that is precisely one centimeter long, for example. I asked him, "How many biological mothers did you have?" I don't have enough time to repeat his answer.
Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 8:31 AM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I meant to say including the types type. > > ----------------------------------- > Frank Wimberly > > My memoir: > https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly > > My scientific publications: > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 > > Phone (505) 670-9918 > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 8:02 AM glen∈ℂ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know this Hywel person. But number of things of a type is >> different from number of types of thing. 8^) Unless types of a thing are >> also things of a type. Channeling a modern teenager: That's so meta, dude. >> >> On 11/17/19 6:55 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: >> > Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no irrational number of >> > things of any type in the Universe >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> >
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