A Love Letter by Theo
Written by Adam Green on Sunday the 27th of November 2011
'Hi.
It's Theo. We met the other day, and I bought peanuts from you at the
snooker club, and we talked about geology and also entity realism i.e. are
electrons really there, or are they just hypothetical tools? You said 'what if a theory explained
something right but was still wrong'. I said that was like the Greek concept of
'crystalline spheres' moving the planets. Your question was a valid critique of
scientific realism, known in academic circles as 'The pessimistic
meta-induction'.
Anyway,
I want to meet up with you for a glass of milk or something. I need to talk to
you about the movement of the continents, as I am writing a snazzy movie about
geology.
Yours, Theo