Regarding Objective Reality, E₈, and string theory (part I)

[pyesetz]

I should just pack it in and move to Blogspot.  This LiveJournal just isn't very furry.  Who am I kidding?  I don’t wear a fursuit, I rarely write furry stories, and the only fursonal drawing I ever bought got ruined during the move to Canada.  There is no place in this Fandom for “an anthropomorphized Homo erectus pretending to be a

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Realism

[anonymous]

Thanks for the post. FWIW, I agree emphatically with everything you say above. And trust to your computer smarts to link, not to the site as a whole, but precisely to those with the Label "Realism". Your attentive reading encourages me to keep posting.
Incidentally -- we should warn your serious readers, if they do go to the site, *not* to click on the label "humble woodchuck". No-o-o, don't go there! That would be very, very wrong!

-- Dr J

[shiver_raccoon]

Oh, and here I thought that you were using MathML and that Opera supported it! Cheating with style (sheets), I guess :-)

[pyesetz]

It is unfortunate that (in serif fonts) the √ has a hook at the top which prevents it from merging seamlessly with the overbar.

Rather than "cheating", I would call it "art".  Art is the communication indirectly of that which cannot be said directly.  It is censorship that makes Yosemite Sam funny (the US gov't said he was not allowed to swear, no matter what the provocation).

[gedrean]

Amusing

[pyesetz]

Thanks for your support!

It is unfortunate that LJ is not what it once was, but nothing lasts forever.

Many scientists confuse "event lacking any known mechanism" with "hoax".  Lots of things happen for which the mechanism is not yet known!

I actually do know a bit about how transistors work together to make CPUs, but I can't build one myself that runs at GHz speeds-that's a "black art" to me.

Are you unable to find work in computer repair these days?

Object permanence is the belief that objects continue to exist even when we cannot see them.  Some scientists believe that very few animals have the mental capacity for such a concept.

[gedrean]

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Scientists believe sometimes if they cannot understand it it must be fake. That's ego.

Building a CPU out of transistors is itself a "black art" to me, simply because I could not figure out how all that logic translates... it's amazing.

No I am unable to find work in anything these days - but repair is especially hard.

I sometimes suspect that humans are one of the animals without the true mental capacity for that concept - we can work with the concept, but to wrap our minds around it is devastating sometimes.