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Gluons and the Physics fo the Fantastic

Messenger particle my ass, their just making shit up-trying to find effective metaphors. I don't have a problem with that, what strikes me as unscientific however is the way in which the physics community has, as Joseph Campbell puts it (regarding people who take the Bible literally), confused the connotation for a denotation.

How does a particle know when to send out its messenger?

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