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   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 24/02/2026 1:36 am, Don wrote:   
   > Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >> J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>> J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >>>>> Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> J. J. Lodder wrote:   
      
      
      
   >      It is always a pleasure for me to quote that, when debating with   
   >      particle physicists the alleged "stringent simplicity" of their   
   >      model. However, much earlier than Feynman, Wolfgang Pauli had hit   
   >      the point. He called the spreading nonsense "group pestilence."   
   >      Theoretical physics has suffered for half a century from the   
   >      infection.   
      
   Wolfgang Pauli was the perfect antithesis of an experimental phsyicist.   
      
   Experiments stopped working when he walked into a room.   
      
   The most dramatic demonstration of the Pauli Effect happened when he   
   wasn't actually in the room. Somebody was complaining at a conference   
   that an experiment had stopped working for a couple of hours - "as if   
   Pauli had stepped into the lab, but he wasn't even in Munich at the   
   time" and Pauli admitted that he had been stuck in train in Munich for a   
     couple of hours that day while going somewhere else.   
      
   Quarks explain quite a lot of very high energy physics pretty neatly.   
   The fact that we've got even less chance of getting our hand one of them   
   than we have of getting our hands on a chunk of dark matter doesn't make   
   them any less useful as an explanatory device.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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