"The bullets come in lumps. The count of bullets may be a fraction because it's measured as an average over time, So you may count 25 bullets in 10 hours, which on average is 2.5 bullets per hour. But that doesn't mean you ever got only part of a bullet. They come in lumps. There's a popular saying that the average American family has 2.5 children. But that doesn't mean there's ever half of any kid, because they come in lumps!"
"Nature not only works in ways we don't understand, it works in ways we can't understand"
codelieb•7mo ago
Hello _wire_. I tried to find the "quotations" you have attributed to The Feynman Lectures on Physics. I looked in Volume I chapters 37 and 38 (which are the same as Volume III chapters 1 and 2) and I could not find them, neither in those chapters nor in the recordings of the original lectures they are based on (for which I made transcripts using the Parakeet STT), so I am wondering where you got these quotations. Could you enlighten us in that regard?
_wire_•7mo ago
"Nature not only works in ways we don't understand, it works in ways we can't understand"