Re: [gruesome joke] If your memory serves you well...

From: Dirk Bruere at Neopax (dirk_at_neopax.com)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 02:17:33 +0100

Mohammed Farooq wrote:

> Dirk wrote
>
>
>>>Why isn't there any famous example of physicist turned chemist?
>
> Often
>
>>>the contrary is observed in the history of chemistry!
>
>
>>We have our pride.
>>You have your shame.
>
>
> Nope! This is an indication a chemists CAN become physicists with
> little efforts while the contrary is not true for physicists. Do you
> consider chemistry as a subset of physics?

Yes.
And ultimately I expect physics to be a subset of information theory. 

-- 
Dirk
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