Intellectualization stands no chance as a defense against the reality of the death of our friends.
---- Frank Wimberly www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 10:52 AM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Barry, > > Isn't it an Abductive process? > > Surely not inductive. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Barry > MacKichan > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 10:09 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hywel > > I second Jon’s thoughts about Hywel’s contribution to our small group > reading a gauge theory book. > I came to appreciate Hywel’s point of view. In mathematics, we prove > theorems starting with axioms or hypotheses. In spite the surpassing > usefulness of mathematics in physics, it really boils down to trying to > match a mathematical model to reality, and this always is an inductive > process, not deductive. It’s not surprising that an experimental physicist > will be more critical of some models, no matter how beautiful they may be > mathematically. > > We will miss him and his thundering “Wrong!” > > --Barry > > > On 22 Jun 2018, at 1:56, Jon Zingale wrote: > > > Thank you for passing this sad news on to friam. > > I will miss Hywel very much and often enjoyed his contributions to our > > gauge field theory book group over the last year. His sense of humor > > often brought a chuckle and smile to my face. Hywel's unique > > perspective on matters of physics and its tenuous relation to the > > platonic world of numbers provided much food for my thought. After > > all, 'Mathematics is ok, but it's better to know what you are doing' > > :) ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe > > at St. John's College to unsubscribe > > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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