• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    mathematician, physicist, and theoretical physicist arguing about what is “real”

    fight fight fight

    there can only be one!

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      7 days ago

      i can do you one better. i was in philosophy.

      nothing more fun that the bitterness of various academics getting pissy about whose work is ‘most essential’ or ‘primary’ or ‘pure’ or ‘foundational’.

      best thing i did in life was leave academia and it’s pissing contests of legitimacy. or worse, how much money they could bring it by wooing the donors. funny how a lot of academic pretension just boils down to who can get the most money.