Discussions, incl. FW Lawvere, M Wright — Picard categories, QM & Electromagnetic theory & other topics
Recorded at Fougeres (2005), featuring FW Lawvere, Michael Wright. From the Michael Wright Collection, held by the Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy.
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0:00 I guess I didn't even make part number 15. I had to get on part 10. Fortunately, they conducted it. I guess I didn't, you know, very, very fast. It's a hell of a long way. This is why I sent you. We arrived at the conclusion that since I had several bags, it would be better to take the taxi, so I did that. It would have been even worse on that trip, because it was horrific. What happened to the main thing is that there was this one that I noticed. Yes, yes, yes, the whole city of Paris. Yes, so you did take that one. I did take that one, yes. I should have come up with something, something, something. No, but I mean, it's just, I'm all the time worried about you. I'm going to tell you. Well, you don't have to worry about me. No, no, no, but I thought you might be worried. Well, I won't, but it's good. It doesn't make it to my car. I'm not saying it's the right theory, but there's one other very interesting topic.
1:05:00 He's now actually at the Royal Maple College. And this was a memo which he had typed on his own office typewriter late at night at Eden in, it was after the attack on the Sun at Gautwell Harbour, it was somewhere around June, no, in the middle of the second day of operation on the British faculty charter, it was before that, it was sometime in June, and the memo reads as follows, I know, Dear Foreign Secretary, I'm writing this on my office typewriter late at night at Constance.
1:07:30 I understand, just as clearly as you, we have only one hope for victory in the war, which is to have some things not only so morally repugnant, but also so crazy in the risks that I am not prepared to go along with them, and one such is the plan that was discussed at, and then there's some co-members of the committee met this afternoon. Now this is astonishing. The committee, Michael thinks the committee, he's got the identity of the committee, but it was, it was, it was naval intelligence. My guess is this, so it's absolutely clear to you, it's not totally clear to him, because there's been brought an alien name attached to the universe. It was one of only two universes that was actually attached. They got the U-boat, they got it, and they had actually got the Enigma cycle machine about a year or so before they were moving that. Now they got the boat and they got the crew, and the U-boat would have been put on operation. There would have been no way the Germans could have known of this.
1:10:00 The half dozen the next day, the Congress has passed it down. So that's the suspicion that there was probably...
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