Red Mug, Blue Linen : Saturday commute lxxx: getting to first base

Red Mug, Blue Linen

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Saturday commute lxxx: getting to first base

Practice, prac-

tice, prac-

tice.

Laurent

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Laurent: Writing to a colleague in the 1930s, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli confessed, “I have done a terrible thing. I’ve postulated a particle that can not be detected.” Eventually, Pauli won the Nobel Prize for his Exclusion Principle, i.e., all material particles exhibit space-occupying behaviour - and could very well fall within the province of restaurants. I wonder if red mug, blue linen will be that terrible thing, a postulate without a particle - that a gentleman is only that creature whose nourishment occupies no space. But whether that is true, is less urgent to know than where it comes from.

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