WTD: clear plastic gas tank

Yes as a matter of fact I did.

By virtue that I said he was right says that I was wrong.

The definition of photon being a packet of light is old school and since I
am not far away from being an official old fart I have an excuse.

Now get off my case.

pierce

 

When I first obtained internet service, I stumbled upon a mailing list
(remember those?) about metaphysics at a large northeastern university.

Their version of metaphysics was not what most people think of when they
hear/see the word. It was about reality at its basest level, not magic, etc.
It was fascinating reading. This was in late 95, early 96. The group
dissolved, as has my memory of which university originated the mailing list.

There are few times when I cannot think of something to say via the
keyboard, but these folks outclassed my meager brain by such a huge margin
that it was all I could do to understand what they were talking about. It
was the best internet reading that I have ever come across, even after some
ten years has passed. I sure wish I could find something like that again.

Ed Cregger

 

Well, there's always the professional philosophy journals, though these
tend not to be quite so informal, nor informative.

If it's metaphysical questions about science that get you going, the
field of History and Philosophy of Science (my own) is probably a better
fit.

Incidentally, it turns out that most of the famous 19th and 20th century
physicists were quite interested in, and concerned about, metaphysics.
Names that come particularly to mind include: Poincare, Einstein, Bohr,
Heisenberg, Eddington. FWIW

--
Later,
John



'indiana' is a 'nolnn' and 'hoosier' is a 'solkk'. Indiana doesn't solkk.

 

Ed,

Many of the better mailing lists are gone and will never return. The
internet first started at the educational level and as such the level of
intellignce required just to get on automatically filtered out many of the
idiots like Nomen Nescio. Sure we had idiots in those days, just a
different class of idiot and fewer of them. I think much of the
intelligent stuff is on internet II but in what form I have no idea. I am
just speculating about I2 but it would seem to make sense.

I remember back in the 80's looking for a mailing list that would discuss
Compact Discs, the technology behind them, etc. I grabbed my printout of
mailing lists and found something called the "CD Forum Mailing List".
Perfect! I subscribed. The first few articles didn't make a lot of sense.
Then I started to really get confused and wondered what the hell I had
subscribed to. It all became clear when someone signed an article about
the relative merits of Maidenform foundations as "Bob". After I had
unsubscribed from the CD Forum Mailing List, I printed a new list that
included a short description.

pierce