Klarinet Archive - Posting 000296.txt from 2005/11

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cambridge Seminar
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:42:20 -0500

Tony Pay wrote:
> Despite my heads-up, now I read it, I don't think it's particularly
> interesting. We don't know who the players are, or really how good
> they are -- I'd have thought that that was one of the most important
> things -- and they don't actually play in the experiment.

My old mate and mentor Per Bak used to joke about how, for every
physicist, there was a mathematician running along behind him trying to
catch up and never quite succeeding; but every so often he would call
out to the physicist, "Hey! That solution you proposed 50 years
ago---it was right!"

I can't help but feel that behind every engineer and every "practical"
user of the physical universe, there's a physicist running along behind
them doing much the same thing. :-D

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