Footnote Physicist

          “What Is Life?”           – Erwin Schrödinger I           “But everything looks perfect           from far away           Come down now           but we'll stay.”           – Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello (The Postal Service) II           Reductionism is the fact that all phenomena except the most fundamental physics must be understood as being built up of such simpler things.   Emergence is the other side of the reductionism coin: again, the fact that all phenomena (except the most fundamental physics) must have arisen from lower phenomena (ultimately from fundamental physics).   Emergence is often misconstrued even by scientists (who are barking up the wrong tree) so as to mean phenomena which ...