Is the uncertainty principle culturally deranging?

[Paul Mackin]

On 8/1/2012 4:33 PM, Madeleine Maudlin wrote:
> Oh der/anging/.  Mr. Kohut is certainly /that/.  I would never use 
> that word though, or any deranged derivative there, hem, of.  If I did 
> it would be in the best sense possible, which for me would be 
> exceedingly /good/.

Vidal claims he was using the word, if not necessarily in the best sense 
possible, not the worst sense either.

Writing of the author of GR:  "Only a physicist who wrote good prose 
could tell us if, say, Heisenberg's famous and culturally deranging 
principle is correctly used in these many, many pages."


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> Does anybody write here?  I just got an email, who knows why I'm on 
> their list, I haven't tried to publish anything in years, from a place 
> called AuthorHouse, subject says Publish today and get a no-cost 
> bump-up.  So I guess it's free, today, if you want to get published. 
>  I'm currently stuck on page 400 hell with no end in sight.  432. 
>  What is it about 400?  The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 
> 400 times closer to it than the Earth, or something.  Bumping-up, m
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> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
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>     On 8/1/2012 10:23 AM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>>     Yes.
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>     but not pejoratively so I hope
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>>     On 1 August 2012 23:52, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net
>>     <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
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>>         http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1976/oct/28/plastic-fiction-3/
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