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   J. J. Lodder to Python   
   Re: A House of Dynamite (2025) (2/2)   
   28 Oct 25 11:21:45   
   
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   > > So, when you look at somebody like Fritz London, or,   
   > > Salam and Weinberg about asymptotic freedom, or,   
   > > Alain Aspect or otherwise about neutrinos, examples   
   > > of anti-reductionists, is that it's pretty much since   
   > > things like Minkowskian space-time that advances in   
   > > physics are courtesy it, then that applications   
   > > can quietly compute.   
   > >   
   > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antireductionism   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Also "realism" is considered sort of necessary.   
   > > Now, most people would think "isn't physics all   
   > > about the real already", then when they find out   
   > > that on the theory side the "nominalists" and   
   > > "fictionalists" aren't "realists", and on the   
   > > experimental side that "instrumentalists" and   
   > > "observationalists" aren't "realists", here it's   
   > > that realists can use theory and experiment just fine.   
   >   
   > A catastrophic heap of pompous words, smashed together like a literary   
   > landfill, spewing nonsense in every direction.   
   >   
   > An overstuffed, brain?bending pile of highbrow words, strung together   
   > with all the elegance of a drunken squirrel.   
   >   
   > A grotesque mashup of scholarly terms, thrown together like confetti in a   
   > hurricane, making zero sense.   
   >   
   > A pretentious word?salad so jumbled it could make a dictionary weep.   
      
   One wonders how he does it.   
   Perhaps he reprogrammed a Kant generator?   
      
   Jan   
      
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