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Old 09-13-2005, 10:51 AM
Duke Duke is offline
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Default Re: What\'s up with Sklansky and physicists?

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Because physics is the only true science. Everything else is stamp collecting.

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That's pretty funny, because I've seen the quote "Mathematics is the only true science, everything else is just applied mathematics" around the math department. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Instead of just being logicians and solving the problems you guys make up, I prefer to think that mathematicians develop the language with which physicists, scientists, and engineers speak and illustrate the framework necessary for scientific ideas to make sense.

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Mathematics is nothing but a model that Physicists choose to use when talking about what they're figuring out about the universe.

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