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    Fermat's Library‏ @fermatslibrary 26 Oct 2018
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    Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg on old math being applied in physics: "There is a spooky quality about the ability of mathematicians to get there ahead of physicists. It's as if when Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon he found in the lunar dust the footsteps of Jules Verne"pic.twitter.com/wTWuiPgiVB

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      2. Tamás Görbe‏ @TamasGorbe 26 Oct 2018
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        Feynman: "Mathematicians like to make their reasoning as general as possible. If I say to them 'I want to talk about ordinary 3 dimensional space' they say 'If you have a space of n dimensions, then here are the theorems.' 'But I only want the case 3' 'Well, substitute n=3'!" 1/3

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      3. Tamás Görbe‏ @TamasGorbe 26 Oct 2018
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        "Physicists are always interested in the special case; they're never interested in the general case. They're talking about something; not talking abstractly about anything. They want to discuss the gravity law of 3 dimensions; not the arbitrary force case in n dimensions." 2/3

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      2. Sanne‏ @sannehombroek 26 Oct 2018
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        That's @jimmyfallon in that pic or not??

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      3. Krissi‏ @krissiwithak 26 Oct 2018
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        Replying to @sannehombroek @fermatslibrary @jimmyfallon

        Exactly my first thought

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      2. The Very Internet‏ @TheVeryInternet 26 Oct 2018
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        It bothers me that ppl repeat this without (i) checking to what extent it's true; (ii) trying to explain why it is true; (iii) comparing to the track record of math in other disciplines; (iv) trying to explain the discrepancy between physics & other disciplines in this respect

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      3. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler 26 Oct 2018
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        I don’t think the claim is that math applies _more_ to physics than to other disciplines. Just that there are some preternatural examples of it. C.f. “unreasonable effectiveness” https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html …

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      2. David Klemitz‏ @DKlemitz 26 Oct 2018
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        Except Jules Verne wasn't a mathematician. Or was he ?

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      3. Yoxter‏ @yoxter3423 26 Oct 2018
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        You forgot to say there is no footsteps of verne in the moon

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      2. DEW‏ @FallingBodies 26 Oct 2018
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        #LawOfSquares #SearlEffect #ilookup http://arcticstardesign.com/gravity/2016/12/26/law-of-squares/ …pic.twitter.com/GnRcUS1PZY

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        #LawOfSquares #SearlEffect #ilookup http://arcticstardesign.com/gravity/2016/12/26/law-of-squares/ …pic.twitter.com/LwMudY9gOc

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