I could talk to Carl about theoretical things. He would patiently listen as I went on about monoids and their relationship to simple iteration problems, standing with a smile on his face, nodding supportively as I waved my hands and got all excited at the whiteboard that was (conventiently?) hidden from the rest of the software team. <\/p>\n
And we would talk about physics, which he studied in school and evidently missed.<\/p>\n
One day I mumbled something under my breath about dark matter<\/em><\/a> — how I thought it was a bit hokey. How in my (amateur!) opinion the term was not so much a theory of the universe as it exists but rather elegant hand-waving to explain something that no one knows quite how to explain. Like, oh … say … epicycles<\/strong><\/em>. Carl smiled and nodded politely, betraying no opinion on the matter one way or the other.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n So today I’m reading this article<\/a> interpreting Kuhn’s revolutions and paradigm shifts<\/em><\/a> as applied to dark matter. And feast your eyes on this:<\/p>\n This is not a recipe for a scientific revolution, but for a thousand years of dark epicycles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Huzzah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I could talk to Carl about theoretical things. He would patiently listen as I went on about monoids and their relationship to simple iteration problems, standing with a smile on his face, nodding supportively as I waved my hands and got all excited at the whiteboard that was (conventiently?) hidden from the rest of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6771,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n