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|content=In Obligate Science you don't choose your colleagues to the same extent: Kacynzki, Stern, Nash, Jordan, Bieberbach, Mullis all innovated. | |content=In Obligate Science you don't choose your colleagues to the same extent: Kacynzki, Stern, Nash, [[Pascual Jordan|Jordan]], Bieberbach, Mullis all innovated. | ||
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|content=Q: The Freudenthal-Tits magic square is symmetric on degree 3 Jordan algebras. For degree 2 the octonionic column/row are off by 7. Explain. | |content=Q: The Freudenthal-Tits magic square is symmetric on degree 3 [[Pascual Jordan|Jordan algebras]]. For degree 2 the octonionic column/row are off by 7. Explain. | ||
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|content=We learned in math & physics that there is no *ability* to simply disavow the minds of people who do wrong things. Many essential & beautiful discoveries were made by Nazis (e.g. Jordan Algebras). You simply can't "no platform" a way through life: | |content=We learned in math & physics that there is no *ability* to simply disavow the minds of people who do wrong things. Many essential & beautiful discoveries were made by Nazis (e.g. [[Pascual Jordan|Jordan Algebras]]). You simply can't "no platform" a way through life: | ||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascual_Jordan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascual_Jordan | ||
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|content=Fascinating. | |content=Fascinating. | ||
Let’s try the following. Should we be allowed to praise the work of the nazi bigot Bieberbach? I myself am passionate about Pascual Jordan’s work. He was a straight up Nazi or course, who would have marched me off to a camp. Love his work! So proud that we teach it. | Let’s try the following. Should we be allowed to praise the work of the nazi bigot Bieberbach? I myself am passionate about [[Pascual Jordan|Pascual Jordan’s]] work. He was a straight up Nazi or course, who would have marched me off to a camp. Love his work! So proud that we teach it. | ||
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|content=@alecberg Pascal Jordan? | |content=@alecberg [[Pascual Jordan|Pascal Jordan]]? | ||
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D) There is a history of fakery in warfare and national security that could explain this. | D) There is a history of fakery in warfare and national security that could explain this. | ||
E) High level physicists like John Wheeler, Bryce DeWitt, Louis Witten, Pascal Jordan, Herman Bondi, etc were previously part of some bizarre secret anti-gravity efforts related to UFO programs that birthed our common era of Quantum Gravity. | E) High level physicists like John Wheeler, Bryce DeWitt, Louis Witten, [[Pascual Jordan|Pascal Jordan]], Herman Bondi, etc were previously part of some bizarre secret anti-gravity efforts related to UFO programs that birthed our common era of Quantum Gravity. | ||
F) Quantum Gravity, at least publicly, does not appear to work by historical standards in its 71 year history. | F) Quantum Gravity, at least publicly, does not appear to work by historical standards in its 71 year history. | ||