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   >> to fill the particle conceit, then that functional freedom   
   >> is sort of like for a model of Dirac/Einstein's positron/white-hole   
   >> sea, i.e. like Zollfrei metri, i.e. like Poincare's rough plane,   
   >> i.e. like super-string theory.   
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   >> I.e., continuum mechanics. (Super-classical, super-standard.)   
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   >> Born ends "The Restless Universe" with something like "under   
   >> our observables, the universe quivers", yet, on the one hand   
   >> it's full of potential, on the other, not a theory of potentials.   
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   >> So, a potentialistic theory with things like Bohmian mechanics   
   >> is considered a wider world though that Born rule is what it is.   
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   > Yes, different lens, and of course I couldn't detect any personal touch   
   > Born had made in that book. I may not do that even if I read it now   
   > cause the lens is the same lens.   
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   > I just looked the book up (the English version) and remembered that it   
   > was full of images and interesting drawings, etc, probably what made it   
   > to our house in the first place. With that title, and such strange,   
   > amusing images inside, my artist brother _would_ fall for it. You know,   
   > kind of like Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach way of making the book   
   > sell to a large audience.   
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   > It was sweet to read.   
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   > In Tehran University, physics dept, it was common knowledge that Sears   
   > Zemansky was like a "sweet story" compared to our horrible, almost   
   > sadistic texts. Hehe :)   
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   > That was not exaggeration! We did read SZ from begin to end like a sweet   
   > story. Too bad it was not our course text. We weren't that blessed. I   
   > don't know the evolution of Sears Zemansky and what it has turned into,   
   > in these days.   
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   > The French physics culture of "rigor first, explanations next" cost them   
   > the DNA discovery, by the way. Rosalind Franklin was French educated. So   
   > Watson won the game while being well behind her. It's too old; it's not   
   > the best way to neither learn concepts, nor to do R&D with. Common sense   
   > always goes a long way.   
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   Unix operating system was created because Thompson wanted to write a   
   better Chess computer program.. It was not something ordained from above   
   like inside IBM. Common sense always wins against rigor.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)