tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post8030535767169265826..comments2024-03-28T21:52:52.100-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Thinking Like A PhysicistAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-87031892560901930092016-05-10T16:47:26.091-06:002016-05-10T16:47:26.091-06:00See also http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4...See also http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4102 (comparing what scientists do) and even more on point http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4092 (comparing different academics observations of a cow that they see while on a train).andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-5908607815455703942016-05-10T16:44:03.082-06:002016-05-10T16:44:03.082-06:00Ha ha! That's great.Ha ha! That's great.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-68077805653512750482016-05-07T17:39:07.966-06:002016-05-07T17:39:07.966-06:00Paraphrasing from Ian Stewart's Concepts of Mo...Paraphrasing from Ian Stewart's <i>Concepts of Modern Mathrmatics</i> (republished by Dover in 1981 and 1995):<br /><br />An astronomer, a physicist and and a mathematician are on a train from London to Edinburgh. Shortly after the cross the border and enter Scotland, they see a black sheep in a field.<br /><br />"Oh, look", says the astronomer, "in Scotland, the sheep are black".<br /><br />"No", says the physicist, "in Scotland, some of the sheep are black".<br /><br />The mathematician sighs, and says: "No. In Scotland, there exists a field that contains at least one sheep at least one half of which is black".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13943415516630321069noreply@blogger.com