Wasn't it Aristotle who wrote, however, that doing one thing well does everything well? Maybe, you might want to try to parse it out. I've already done it somewhere, recently. Might have been on the English forum. Anyway, I know how such phrases take on a lot of "lipstick", over the course of, say, a couple thousand years.
Off hand, aren't there falconers, in the states?
Oh well, I guess not many cared about the specific aspiration here.
No, certainly, I didn't write, or even think, that I've seen it all. As surely, though, not everything interests me. Incidentally, very few things don't cross the mind of someone who works on a theory of everything. I never had to pursue astrology, running out to look at eclipses, wondering when they occurred, stuff like organ donations/transplants. Stuff of other areas which surprises me, now and then when I come across it. It helps to transcribe a given problem into as many different areas of thought as possible. A theory of everything requires that thousands of different straightforward approaches be studied. And, best that one can give up on (pet) finger-holds that begin not to pan out, and, then, adapt to acquire new ones. What I meant by, finding your other. Yes, it sounds that you'd be a horrible theoretical physicist, let alone multi-disciplined. For one thing, you have notions that, I guess, you hate to have even others trounce on. For another, well, you are way too worried about that seat at the table, say, the research grants, etc.
If you think that I think I am a god, of any sort - well, I guess you do - then you are trying way too hard to discount the little I've already pointed out to you. For one thing, when I did the kidney donation to my partner, I had to undergo the usual(?) psychiatric evaluation. I spoke to a psychiatrist, for about two hours, over a wide range of topics. I always like to talk about my theory, so, we talked about it, for a few minutes. After the interview, he asked me about how to track down a particular book authored by Roger Penrose's father. Penrose is a retired famous mathematician/physicist over in England. He was one of Hawking's contemporaries, if I recall, at the other university. His father was an almost equally famous, psychiatrist. (In the interview, we got to talking about Penrose tilings, a rather recent discovery of Penrose's. I must have related this to some element of my theory that was fresh in my mind.) The interview occurred nearer the end of the year and a half long screening process for potential donors. A couple of weeks later, at another test of some sort, I asked my donation-assigned nephrologist about the psych test. He told me, "he [the shrink] said that you passed with flying colors."
You're actually a fairly shallow thinker, MrV. Why would I be disappointed about an eternal "dirtnap" if such were, indeed, the case, ie, if this were my finding in corroboration with the findings of others? Again, it's important to be able to accept any and all proved findings, no matter how much at odds with one's intuition, opinion, mindset, culture, work investment, and experience and training. No doubt, a grueling mental and physical process over many years. Namely, a brain that can repeatedly rewire itself.
No, MrV, you're not full of shit, but only because there's nothing there worth doubting.
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