Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Randomness as a professional disease



In the May/June 2003 issue of Computing in Science and Engineering, Dietrich Stauffer has an article on Sociophyics Simulations (p. 71):


"Statistical physicists, of course, assume that these hierarchies arise from randomness (The illusion that everything is random is a professional disease - morbus Boltzmann - among such physicists, just as silicosis, or black lung, affects mine workers)"

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