[FRIAM] flattening -isms

[Frank Wimberly]

Hywel was an experimental particle physicist and a regular Friam attendee.
He had been a professor at Penn and Cornell and a group leader at Los
Alamos.  Once he said to me, "the number one does not exist".  He meant
that there is nothing that is precisely one centimeter long, for example.
I asked him, "How many biological mothers did you have?"  I don't have
enough time to repeat his answer.

Frank

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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 8:31 AM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I meant to say including the types type.
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> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 8:02 AM glen∈ℂ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I don't know this Hywel person. But number of things of a type is
>> different from number of types of thing. 8^) Unless types of a thing are
>> also things of a type. Channeling a modern teenager: That's so meta, dude.
>>
>> On 11/17/19 6:55 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>> > Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no irrational number of
>> > things of any type in the Universe
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