Re: knowledge
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "Ron" == Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
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> Ron> I'm inherently(sp?) suspicious of any theory which is only
> Ron> really understood by a half-dozen people. Many parts of
> Ron> Quantum Theory meet that criteria.
>
> Hmmm...could you name some? Being an ex-grad student who did some
> fairly esoteric quantum physics, I'm betting that any part of quantum
Some of the 1/2 dozen people, or some of the parts of quantum physics?
No. But when I read articles on discoveries in quantum physics, it
just seems like the "the simplest hypothesis that agrees with the data"
law doesn't get followed very often.
> physics is understood by at least as many people as, say, the number
> of people who've read every line of code in the O(1) scheduler for
> Linux ;-)
Read the code, or understood the code?
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if lot of people have read and
understood the O(1) scheduler code. Even kernel programming is less
dense than quantum physics.
> Sorry, I just could not resist responding to a mistrust of quantum
> physics. How did this get started on debian-user anyway....?
The thread should be in the archives. In the "Re: [OT] Re: shuttle
disaster" commented on a sig block praising teachers, and then someone
else made some philosophical comment, and we took it from there...
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