On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Ron" == Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
