M&Ms are in black and white only now (for a while). Need I say more?
News flash: when Gell-Mann first proposed quarks, he called them a "mathematical fiction
Once again, need I say more?
News flash: there are many deterministic things in nature that are demonstrably not computable.
It's already happening in physics: Philosopher of science Andrew Pickering suggests that the quark, which in its unbound state has not - and some say cannot - be observed, should be regarded as a scientific invention rather than an actual particle.
News flash: when Gell-Mann first proposed quarks, he called them a "mathematical fiction", a mere heuristic crutch to help him work out the equations. Deep inelastic scattering experiments later showed that there really are pointlike particles inside protons and neutrons, with properties corresponding to the "fictional" quarks he proposed. The existence of quarks asserted itself as an experimental reality in spite of the beliefs of physicists. The universe is the way that it is, and not how we would wish it to be.
There are several other things obviously wrong with this article, but I'll restrain myself. I have to go buy parsnips.
Avoid the Peruvian parsnips, there was too much rain this season, and many of the parsnips split open because they grew too fast. Seriously.
/john
M&Ms are in black and white only now (for a while). Need I say more?
News flash: when Gell-Mann first proposed quarks, he called them a "mathematical fiction
Once again, need I say more?