Pot-pourri (XXV)

A Sunday selection of choice morsels.  Click for the whole brunch.

We mentioned, in passing, the description of Hugh Everett (perpetrator of the “Many-Worlds” extension of quantum theory)  as “a committed atheist”.   It suddenly struck me  what an odd phrase that is.

Turns out there isn’t any God after all !  It’s all in the genes! Is my face red !   And I am so-o-o sorry  for having made fun of wonderful atheists.  ( … *sniffle*  * sob * … )

Pace superstition, 13 is simply prime, albeit rather a pricky prime.  Get to know this genus as a whole, and “13” will recede into the chorus line.

Minimalism is like a germ, a seed:  compact, yet containing the whole fruit in posse.

Church’s Thesis and the Turing conjecture (concerning effectively calculable functions in Recursive Function Theory) turned out to be logically equivalent;  yet who has heard of Alonso Church? 

Donald Trump and a Nominalist  walk into a bar…