“There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.”
Anthony James Leggett (1938) British physicist
Nobel Lecture http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2003/leggett-lecture.pdf, December 8, 2003.
“And the too strong grasping of it,
when it is pressed together and condensed,
loses it This very thing you are”
Part I, 4
The Kingfishers (1950)
Context: We can be precise. The factors are
in the animal and / or the machine the factors are
communication and / or control, both involve
the message. And what is the message? The message is
a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time is the birth of the air, is
the birth of water, is
a state between
the origin and
the end, between
birth and the beginning of
another fetid nest is change, presents
no more than itself And the too strong grasping of it,
when it is pressed together and condensed,
loses it This very thing you are
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Liebende … [w]enn ihr einer dem andern
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