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Category: Physics

The Important Difference Between True and Real

Posted on by Joel M. Hoffman

Lots of things are true but not real. For example, if a village has 100 families with 150 children, there are one and a half children per family. That’s true. But that doesn’t mean that there’s such a thing as a half child. Unfortunately, especially when it comes to physics, many people don’t appreciate the…

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The Starting Point

Even apparently dissimilar complex systems have similarities that are important, interesting, and useful.

We can learn about the world by studying the brain, learn about the brain by studying countries, learn about countries by studying the body, learn about the body by studying companies, learn about companies by studying computers, and learn about computers by studying the world.

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