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   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 24/02/2026 7:08 am, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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:   
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   >>   
   >>>       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.   
   >   
   > Perhaps. Pauli was quite capable of debunking erroneous ones,   
   > and of suggesting useful ones.   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > You realise that all of this was a practical joke   
   > engineered by Georg Gamow?   
      
   Of course I know it was a practical joke. I hadn't registered that it   
   had been engineered by Georg Gamow, but I read the Mr. Tompkins books as   
   child and find the idea perfectly credible.   
      
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