Re: What are physicists trying to do?

Dear Martin Hogbin:

"Martin Hogbin" <goatREMOVETHIS123@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A number of regulars here have an insistence
on what they describe as 'physical' and on
what they describe as 'mechanisms'. What
are your thoughts on this?

Nature is a black box that can never be opened. Man is a product
of his environment, and his education involves understanding via
mechanism. Man insists there must be mechanism, Nature may not.

Many people blend "physical" and "mechanism" together, into a
seamless steaming mass of goo. At some point, the only point of
congruence between Nature and Man is measurement. Because Nature
has some "randomness", but She has been very consistent about it.

A physicist is trying to stretch the fabric of the known, to
cover the infinite unknown. And is trying to find new fabric to
cover unknown that old fabric cannot cover. A physicist tries to
know the unknown.

David A. Smith


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