I never met Hywel myself, but the stories of him are always apocryphal... someday I expect all of the stories referencing Mulla Nasruden to reappear with Hywel as the central character.
On 11/17/19 8:40 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 > > > ============================================================ > 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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