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Subject: Re: serializing the facts
From: John Denker <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
At 08:54 PM 8/19/00 -0400, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
Quoting Hugh Haskell:
They [students] need to understand that physics is a serial topic
where each level is built on the previous one and that there is a
logical thread that holds it all together.
Science is not serial. It is a very high-dimensional tangled latticework
of facts. There is no natural ordering of the facts.