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Re: Why work before energy in texts



Jim Green wrote:
I am not sure why you seem to denigrate the noble quality of "equal" with
"merely".

Just a personal perspective. It seems rarely do we identify two things
that initially appear to be different but turn out to be identical, and
I view such identity as far more profound than the uncountable physical
examples of things that are just mathematically equal. To me it is the
difference between things that are equal because *nature* has made them
immutably so, and things that are equal because *we* have chosen to make
them so.



Best wishes,

Larry

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Larry Cartwright <exit60@cablespeed.com>
Retired (June 2001) Physics Teacher
Charlotte MI 48813 USA
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"Information is not knowledge,
knowledge is not wisdom,
and wisdom is not foresight.
Each grows out of the other
and we need them all."
(Arthur C. Clarke)