From: nsjacobus@yahoo.com
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 21:28:07 MST
Not sure if someone has already answered on this, but I think the other
physicist was Murray Gell-Mann. If so, the source would be one of the
first Feynman popular books to come out: "What do you care what other
people think", etc.
-NJ
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 05:47 PM, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Ah-ha, the south-man living in summer-land (its a *really*
> nasty day in Seattle today) *is* still alive and phoneth home!
>
>> Ah, but relevant to *what*? Half the trouble in understanding
>> difficult
>> discourse is knowing what interpretative frame to read it through.
> [snip]
>> His error is not in saying any of this, which is a commonplace of
>> physics,
>> but in supposing that this insight can be imported directly and
>> usefully into any
>> relativism salient to human culture.
>
> Now I'm *really* confused. I'm absolutely certain that both Damien
> and
> Anders are using a variant of English that I don't speak (with or
> without
> my Bostonian accent).
>
>> But I have the mournful feeling that this attempted explanation of
>> Derrida's
>> apparent obscurity will have failed Robert Bradbury's test and will
>> itself
>> need explanation...
>
> You got that right!
>
>> BTW, there are plenty of groups of smart people out there (mean 3
>> sigma,
>> say) who are not members of this club house. :)
>
> Agreed. But with Feynman gone are they having much fun?
>
> Robert
>
> P.S. I have this story running around in my head about the parties
> that Feynman
> used to attend where he and another famous physicist, presumably a
> Caltech
> professor, would try to out-do each other with their mental jousting.
> I've
> tried googling it and didn't get anywhere. Does anyone know who the
> other
> physicist was and/or the source of the story?
>
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