I appreciate that Smolin is extending and modifying Leibniz’s idea of monads but really NO ONE told him that maybe a Theory of Nads isn’t the right name? Also there is a part of my brain that is forever in middle school.
@pnts hahahahaha
@pnts a pair of nads, oh my chortle
@cobyalmond I mean, it just keeps going
@pnts I think this is intentional and I love it
@cobyalmond I would buy that. There is no way he couldn’t know, right?
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Nads nads monads nadic nads nads nads

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Needs a song

All the philosophy lads,
Waxing lyrical about their nads,
Single, plural, monads or pairs,
But all their nads are Leibniz's, so unfair,

Thinking of nads, thinking of nads,
Ruminating, cogitating, always about nads
Waxing their nads, waxing their nads,
Telling everyone 'Look at monads'!

@pnts what does it mean to live in a universe where if you kick anything, you kick it in the nads?
@pnts 😂 Though I’m not sure that ‘mons’ would have been much better… 😏
@pnts and the occasional schoolboy probably has drawn a diagram with a linked pair of Nads... on their school desk.