I've heard of people being driven insane (for real) by thinking too
much about physics and the philosophy of physics. I was wondering if
anyone has heard of such a thing and knows some names of people or
stories they could share. Thanks...

"DuckStabRez" wrote in message
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| I've heard of people being driven insane (for real) by thinking too
| much about physics and the philosophy of physics. I was wondering if
| anyone has heard of such a thing and knows some names of people or
| stories they could share. Thanks...

Hmmm.... Have you actually read any of the posts on this newsgroup? ;-)

FrediFizzx

DuckStabRez" wrote in message
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| I've heard of people being driven insane (for real) by thinking too
| much about physics and the philosophy of physics. I was wondering if
| anyone has heard of such a thing and knows some names of people or
| stories they could share. Thanks...



Well, myself and my fellow physics students used to often joke that we were at
times suffering from brain overload which we called "Physics Madness Syndrome"
which at times actually did seem worse than the other equavalent acronym that
50 percent of the human population suffers from

take care

Blll

DuckStabRez wrote:

I've heard of people being driven insane (for real) by thinking too
much about physics and the philosophy of physics. I was wondering if
anyone has heard of such a thing and knows some names of people or
stories they could share. Thanks...

Look around you, here.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf

I believe that 50% of the Physics PHDs are completely nuts.
The other 50% are Brilliant.
but this was a small sample size, I worked with about 8.
And when they are nuts, I mean really zapped, very tight do-loops,
squirrels-ville.
Also, I don't think Physics is directly the cause of it.

DuckStabRez wrote:

I've heard of people being driven insane (for real) by thinking too
much about physics and the philosophy of physics. I was wondering if
anyone has heard of such a thing and knows some names of people or
stories they could share. Thanks...

There is one possibility who posts in this newsgroup--who at one
time did productive work in physics, but most of the cranks and
trolls posting here failed to learn much physics.

"DuckStabRez" wrote in message
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I've heard of people being driven insane (for real) by thinking too
much about physics and the philosophy of physics. I was wondering if
anyone has heard of such a thing and knows some names of people or
stories they could share. Thanks...

Oh nooo, just the opposite. Insane people do not think enough about physics
or the philosophy of physics. Will E.

(DuckStabRez) wrote in message . com...
I've heard of people being driven insane (for real) by thinking too
much about physics and the philosophy of physics. I was wondering if
anyone has heard of such a thing and knows some names of people or
stories they could share. Thanks...

Hmmmm.... One names comes to mind... Sir Isaac Newton, hospitalized at
about age 32 for having mental problems....Hmmm, another name comes to
mind....Hmmm guess who...If that one was hospitalized on time science
would not be suffering the way it does these days. Unfortunately,
nobody ever noticed how crazy he was because the strngth exceeded any
known scale of insanity.

Mike

"Dich Shorter" wrote in message ...
I believe that 50% of the Physics PHDs are completely nuts.
The other 50% are Brilliant.
but this was a small sample size, I worked with about 8.

Make that 100% of them were brilliant with 4 of them
nuts and 4 of them sane ;-)

Dirk Vdm


And when they are nuts, I mean really zapped, very tight do-loops,
squirrels-ville.
Also, I don't think Physics is directly the cause of it.

Mike wrote:

(DuckStabRez) wrote in message . com...
I've heard of people being driven insane (for real) by thinking too
much about physics and the philosophy of physics. I was wondering if
anyone has heard of such a thing and knows some names of people or
stories they could share. Thanks...

Hmmmm.... One names comes to mind... Sir Isaac Newton, hospitalized at
about age 32 for having mental problems....Hmmm, another name comes to
mind....

Mercuric poisoning


Hmmm guess who...If that one was hospitalized on time science
would not be suffering the way it does these days. Unfortunately,
nobody ever noticed how crazy he was because the strngth exceeded any
known scale of insanity.

Mike