Re: Questions you love/hate to have asked

[trammell@fn872.fnal.gov (John Trammell)]

Hello All:

Bob Carlson wrote:

> I've been using the bookkeeping approach for several years now and it seems
> to make life simpler (especially for students to organize their thoughts and
> for me to evaluate them).  ...

{snip}

> ...  Energy graphs are similar, if you create a table with the
> different energy contributions and sum them to get the total energy.  Isn't
> this what a physicist is?  A keeper of nature's books.

No, I'd say that nature does a good job of balancing its own books; we're
more like the IRS auditors who keep looking for a mistake.  :-)

John
trammell@fnal.gov

P.S. - Happy punkin day!