Know Your Quanta!
This is Me:
Also, have I mentioned that I seriously miss cats? One cat in particular…
Read it and weep:
Although Kant does not explicitly mention the predictive role of differential equations in the process of Anticipations of Perception, the notion of differentiability introduced by infinitesimally calculus permeates his text.
From Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics, a text that as far as I can tell, is just a big giant book of Kant and Math. The pages even have that crisp ultra-white color of incredibly dense textbooks. You know what I’m taking about. Oh dear.
But there is hope:
[...]
Both schools are mistaken, the venerable mole declared.
Birds and cats are optical illusions produced
by the refraction of light. In fact, things above
Were the same as below, only the clay was less dense and
the upper roots of trees were whispering something.
but only a little.
And that was that.
Ever since the moles have remained below ground:
they do not set up commissions
or presuppose the existence of cats.
Or if so only a little.
From Miroslav Holub’s poem, “Brief reflection on cats growing in trees”
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