Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Falsifiability Message-ID: <529@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 06:05:38 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.529 Posted: Sat Aug 3 06:05:38 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 05:13:52 EDT References: <2156@ut-sally.UUCP> <347@scgvaxd.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 22 In article <435@spar.UUCP> ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) writes: > OK, Rich, I have a theory for you: > > The universe is really composed of one kind of particle -- ousions. They > behave in such a way as to account for all known particles, forces, and > other phenomena yet to be discovered. [proposed in net.physics] > > By Occam, this theory ought to be preferable to anything in physics, since > I have reduced all entities to one. Actually, you shouldn't call them "ousions". They've already been named "quarks". -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "You are a stupid fool." -Wang Zeep "I'm not a fool!" -The Hated One