Re: Are these people insane? Seriously.

More. . .

I tell you what else though, I have total respect for those engineers
(who make math into real things) who argue the difference between math
and physics. Engineers understand the transcendence of mathematical
objects into objects of nature. The reason is that the resulting
object becomes some-what of a complicated thing to classify.

Is the bridge the model or the model of a bridge? Fascinating !

So, I think physicists should really bite the bullet and accept the
Pinocchio effect...

The effect of creating a model that yearns to be a real boy.

The problem with some of these people you talk about though, hehehe
and this is quite the amusing part, is that if they continue to state
this stuff, and ram it down the throat of physicists, they are nothing
more than those crazy dudes who wear those "THE END IS NIGH'
billboards.

The same goes for any physicist who claims they have made a real boy
from their model.


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