XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 21/02/2026 5:03 pm, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   > On 02/20/2026 08:56 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >> On 21/02/2026 5:52 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>> On 02/20/2026 10:31 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>> On 21/02/2026 3:47 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>> On 02/19/2026 11:45 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 20/02/2026 10:48 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 02/19/2026 11:19 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On 20/02/2026 2:44 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> On 02/19/2026 01:45 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> On 19/02/2026 6:13 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>> On 02/18/2026 11:06 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/17/2026 08:35 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> On 18/02/2026 5:37 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/17/2026 09:47 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/17/2026 03:49 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
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   >>   
   >>> I.e., mathematics _owes_ physics more and better mathematics   
   >>> of continuity and infinity.   
   >>   
   >> Mathematics doesn't owe physics anything. Physics exploits tools   
   >> developed by mathematicians, which makes physicists customers for the   
   >> work of some mathematicians.   
   >>   
   >> A mathematical physicist like Paul Dirac is an interesting hybrid, but   
   >> his biography is titled "The strangest man".   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac   
      
      
      
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