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Subject: really elementary particles
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 13:06:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 13:06:36 1984
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From:            Charlie Crummer <crummer@AEROSPACE>

Haowdy theah Ethan!  Whut evah happuned tew the theora uv bootstrappin'?
Yew remembuh.  Everthin' wuz made outta everthin'; nucleons wuz made outta
mesons 'n mesons wuz made outta nucleons.  The hole shebang wuz a self-
producing (autopoietic) sistum.  AH thank we all got western blahnders ohn!
All us cowboahs jes BULEAVE that the world has GOT to be wun great big
Chaneeze box.  Yew know, with boxes in boxes...  WE thank that we got thangs
x-planed when we fahnd the last box.  Whut if they ISN'T any last box?
Whut if we all sit heah 'n fahnd boxes in boxes 'til HELL freezes ovah 'n
nevah see that th' hole prolem is that we don't know hao t' SEE?  Ah thank
that if we all use Quantum Gauge Field Theory lahk a sodbuster maht yews a
samuri sored to plow his field or nok the shit off his boots, we're missin'
the point uv whut QGFT kun tell us.  Maybe the plowboy kun larn frum jes
lookin' at th' plow.

QGFT ken handle state functions thet ahrn't ahgenstates uv th' numbah oparatah.
Whut duz this meen?  MAYBE it's a trap t' keep lookin' at th' world as jes
a hole bunch uv little tahny THANGS a-buzzin' 'round; MAYBE we ort t' trah t'
unnerstand it as a big ol' blob uv self-generating jello, a-wigglin and 
a-shakin.

  --Charlie