> I would imagine that a theoretical physicist on LSD would sound like these comments. I love it. I don't need LSD! > When we discuss statistical mechanics it

> I would imagine that a theoretical physicist on LSD would sound like these comments. I love it. I don't need LSD! > When we discuss statistical mechanics it is kind of understood that the ferromagnet we try to describe is not placed on the innermost stable orbit around a black hole If your theory of statistical mechanics requires that, then your theory is wrong, or at least badly incomplete. That might not be a problem you need to care about for practical reasons, but it is a problem. > I guess one can say that the essence of a physical system is not always in the fundamentals of physics? Depends on what you mean by "essence" and "fundamentals" - you're not going to have good time trying to analyze a computer [0] running a game-of-life sim in terms of it's constituent quarks, obviously - but there's usually something useful to be learned from the underlying physical laws. 0: (whose primary descriptive quality is that it's)