"Dewey Dykstra, Jr." wrote:
>
> More correspondence with experience is merely more correspondence with
> experience.
>
> If you look at the sequence of ideas as to what light is, the sequence has
> no trajectory toward something specific.  Could the folks who believed that
> light really is E&M waves have predicted that the next step would be to
> believe light is little chunks of energy.  Can we predict what we will
> think light is when the next major change comes?  We should be able to if
> this process is asymptotic.
[snip]

I wish here to repeat once again a few words I overheard
one blue-suited IBM business planner say to another, as the
two were walking down a hall in the IBM Poughkeepsie South
Road Lab Building 705, in 1978/79.

The two business planners "were not
happy".  I overheard the one say to the other, concerning
IBM's big computer chip manufacturing and development facility,
in East Fishkill:

    "Fishkill is not bringing in the inventions on schedule."

+\brad mccormick

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              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)

  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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