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Quoting Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@xxxxxxx>: > > Good question. Maybe the debate on the TP is for Marxists > the modern equivalent of debates about the quantity of angels > who can reside on a point of a needle? > > <http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_132.html> > Having checked your reference it appears that these debates were an early investigation as to whether Angels followed Fermi-Dirac or Bose-Einstein statistics, and as we now know, the latter has some pretty damned weird consequences. Paul Cockshott www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc reality.gn.apc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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