[FRIAM] flattening -isms

[Steven A Smith]

I never met Hywel myself, but the stories of him are always
apocryphal...  someday I expect all of the stories referencing Mulla
Nasruden to reappear with Hywel as the central character.

On 11/17/19 8:40 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, I meant to say including the types type.
>
>     -----------------------------------
>     Frank Wimberly
>
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>     My scientific publications:
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>     On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 8:02 AM glen∈ℂ <gepropella at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         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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