Re: Quarks as mathematical constucts

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Tue, 27 Jun 1995 12:27:55 -0500

Art Chadwick writes

>Who says Quarks are mathematical constructs?

I neither clamed it nor denied it. Although I don't follow particle
physics very closely, I believe people were led to look for quarks because
a mathematical model predicted they should exist. So there are certainly
mathematical constructs which predict and in some sense model quarks.

My point was that macroevolution was _not_ a mathematical model -- at least
not in the sense of say Maxwell's equations. Logical construct, yes.
Mathematical model, no.

It was a side issue anyway. Maybe we ought to get back to the main issue,
whatever that was (I know I left it here somewhere...)

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