That is a great story:
*Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics* Jean-Pierre Changeux, Alain Connes https://books.google.com/books?id=QnBdhJbfqOAC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7 @philipthrift On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 12:10:54 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > A physicist goes off to a conference. After a week his suit’s gotten > soiled and crumpled, so he goes out to look for a dry cleaner. Walking down > the main street of town, he comes upon a store with a lot of signs out > front. One of them says “Dry Cleaning.” So he goes in with his dirty suit > and asks when he can come back to pick it up. The mathematician who owns > the shop replies, “I’m terribly sorry, but we don’t do dry cleaning.” > “What?” exclaims the puzzled physicist. “The sign outside says ‘Dry > Cleaning’!” “We do not do anything here,” replies the mathematician. “We > only sell signs!” > --- Alain Connes, in Changeux > > On 10/1/2019 9:51 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 1:30:12 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: >> >> How Many Universes Are There? >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XglOw2_lozc> >> >> John K Clark >> > > > > Only one, at last count. > > > Scientists should not play with maths like children with matches. > [image: Image] > <https://twitter.com/philipthrift/status/1179088876058624000/photo/1> > · > > > > @philipthrift > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/bed505d3-4d06-4570-8ed5-7079d3314546%40googlegroups.com.
