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   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   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?   
      
   Jan   
      
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