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   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   john larkin  wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:50:59 +0100, Thomas Heger    
   > wrote:   
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   > >Am Mittwoch000011, 11.02.2026 um 19:47 schrieb Liz Tuddenham:   
   > >> john larkin  wrote:   
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   > >> [...]   
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   > >>> Why are physics types so often insulting and obnoxious?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I've been to physics meetings that shocked me with their brutality.   
   > >>> That mentality is terrible for brainstorming and inventing things.   
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   > >> Physicists are particulary careful to prove that they are NOT inventing   
   > >> things.   
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   > >Of course physicist could invent whatever they want and have the ability   
   > >to invent.   
   > >   
   > >Science isn't organised in 'guilds' and everybody has the right to   
   > >invent, which would include physicists.   
   > >   
   > >But mainly the engineers invent things, because they have more training   
   > >in the use of the required means.   
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   > Training teaches repetition. Dogs are trained.   
   >   
   > Inventing things is a separate skill. It involves being crazy,   
   > exploring the extremes of the solutuin space, staying confused.   
      
   It would seem that you have no problem with that,   
      
   Jan   
      
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