He said that the number 1 does not exist. I asked him how many biological mothers he had.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 2:48 PM Jon Zingale <[email protected]> wrote: > I take it from the Wikipedia entry that *physics envy* is a second-order > *math envy*. I often got the impression from Hywel that he was a radical > empiricist. More extreme than Gisin, Hywel did not only reject the reals > but > also the integers. Hywel's reasoning (which makes a weird kind of sense to > me) was the reasoning of approximations and measurement, always emphasizing > phenomena first and theory second. Not only would I say he was warding off > (our) *math envy*, but also that he was reminding us that all convenient > assumptions (such as conservation laws) must ultimately stand before what > can be known through measurement. His physics would not be the target of > the > envy described by the Wikipedia article in that his physics was the master > of its mathematics, not the reverse. A truly remarkable human being! > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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