George Duke wrote on Thu, Apr 2, 2009 12:45 PM EDT:
Sheldon Glashow: When I speak of four forces, or you say, ''there are
four forces,'' it reminds me of my fifth grade teacher who told us there
were seven continents.
Eduardo Punset: Wasn't he correct?
Glashow: I had never heard of Australia. I certainly never knew the
difference between Austria and Australia when my teacher told us there are
seven continents. This is the wrong way around. You, and people in general,
can't know what physicists mean when we say ''four forces.'' People
only know two: if you drop an object it falls to the ground because the
''force of gravity'' exists. And then there is electricity.
Punset: That's true. [from Lynn Margulis & E.P., 2007]
The parallel is that there are four forces, fundamental chess pieces,
making seven units once Rex and Regina embodied, unfulfilled Laeufer-Towers.
And Kasparov, Anand, people in general cannot know Chess until they have
played it extensively, the full quorum, the spectral ROYGBIV, the whole
ball of wax. To real four-force chess, f.i.d.e.-chosen mad queen 8x8 is
kid's play, like a puzzle solved. Or like crude rudimentary markings of C.V.
art never to be taken seriously. Neither serious any more. Addicted to a
measly artifact and its half-truths. Square attitudes: stunted aptitudes:
dimensional deficiency.