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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What is an Idea?' and 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics'

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6 ideas

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

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By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

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Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

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The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]