"Engineer" in the military sense - digging trenches, bridging rivers and setting up siege engineers. It comes closer to the modern "sapper".
In France the fire-brigades are (mostly) called sapeurs-pompiers
because they were re-purposed military engineers.
Prospero comes fairly close to the modern phsyicist, perhaps because he was modelled on Dr. John Dee.
Admittedly, Dee was an astrologer, but string theory physicists aren't all that different.
"Infinity is just a way of reasoning about limits" - Gauss (paraphrased ).
This might help, dunno...
Search for TUT5426.pdf from Maxim.
Thanks - is there a PDF button on that page?. My PC is being a PITA, the page froze when I tried to print to PDF.
Den torsdag den 7. april 2016 kl. 00.32.32 UTC+2 skrev John Fields:
are you bored? digging up a 2 week old thread just to moan about something pointless, that's just silly
-Lasse
It's fun to watch... John L is inept... and John F executes clever stab wounds >:-} ...Jim Thompson
Den torsdag den 7. april 2016 kl. 01.11.29 UTC+2 skrev Jim Thompson:
what part of it was clever?
-Lasse
I guess you're too slow-witted to see >:-}
Sorry! Couldn't help myself. ...Jim Thompson
The definition of "infinite" depends on context and perspective. Sorry if this is too harsh, but to claim it has a firm definition is kind of a Slomanesque non-sequitur.
he tries to by pointing out what was perfectly obvious from the start, and it fails uselessly.
Lots of people do well here in what they do, and all are caught short at times. It's life, there's far too much in e.eng for any one person to learn it all in one lifetime. I don't care much for the primary school antics myself.
NT
It wasn't incorrect. It was a matter of context and perspective.
It's led to nothing but juvanism, surprisingly from the more senior crowd.
I agree with all you said. When I read John's statement, my first thought was that it is not infinite, but sanity took over and I understood what his point was.
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