Cosmic Variance: The Wrongness Singularity (on Instapundit wrongness)

[Dudley_DUright]

The blogosphere has been having its fun with this little bit of instant punditry from Glenn Reynolds:

Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and poor nations would benefit from cheap energy. But we’d be called imperialist oppressors, then.

Far be it from me to add anything to the trenchant political analysis already available. But as a Physics Blog, we feel it’s our duty here to point out the exciting scientific consequences that our more humanistical friends have thus far missed: the possibility that Prof. Reynolds has discovered a new state of wrongness.

You see, wrongness is a fermionic property. That is to say, a statement is either wrong or it is not wrong; you can’t pile on the wrongness to make a condensate of wrong. By the conventional rules, n declarative statements can be wrong at most n times. By the Pauli exclusion principle, you just can’t be more wrong than that!

read on for a startling discovery regarding Instapundit wrongness...

http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/05/05/the-wrongness-singularity/

[xchrom]

1. that's hysterical.

the parts i can understand.

[Dudley_DUright]

7. It is even funnier if you get the physics

trust me :-)

[xchrom]

9. lol -- i'll have to.

[ixion]

2. brilliant!

The Bushies have discovered so many new lows, that this just seems fitting. :-)

[Ready4Change]

3. Hmmm.

What would a nuetron blog look like?

[bemildred]

4. A big enough blog would collapse into a Blog Hole. nt

[HamdenRice]

5. Does anyone remember the scientific quip ...

Something to the effect that a certain statement is so incorrect that it's not even wrong? In other words, it doesn't even rise to the level of a simply wrong statement?

[Dudley_DUright]

6. That was Wolfgang Pauli

"It is not even wrong." he once said of a scientific paper he disapproved of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli

[Demeter]

10. Meaning It's Pure Fantasy and Fiction n/t

[Vidar]

8. But that's not the plan. Ruin their infrastructure, stop the fields

from producing & drive up the price of oil of Halliburton et al. That's the plan.