[FRIAM] invoking quantum woo (was Book publishing advice needed)

[Frank Wimberly]

He said that the number 1 does not exist.  I asked him how many biological
mothers he had.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 2:48 PM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> I take it from the Wikipedia entry that *physics envy* is a second-order
> *math envy*. I often got the impression from Hywel that he was a radical
> empiricist. More extreme than Gisin, Hywel did not only reject the reals
> but
> also the integers. Hywel's reasoning (which makes a weird kind of sense to
> me) was the reasoning of approximations and measurement, always emphasizing
> phenomena first and theory second. Not only would I say he was warding off
> (our) *math envy*, but also that he was reminding us that all convenient
> assumptions (such as conservation laws) must ultimately stand before what
> can be known through measurement. His physics would not be the target of
> the
> envy described by the Wikipedia article in that his physics was the master
> of its mathematics, not the reverse. A truly remarkable human being!
>
>
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