Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Physics and Iridescent Contract Theory

In biology, Intelligent Design. In linguistics, Wrathful Dispersionism. And now in physics, Iridescent Contract Theory.

In comments, Derek writes:

Wrathful Dispersionism: Meanwhile, physicists are trying to stop Iridescent Contract Theory from being a required part of the Optics syllabus. IC theory says that the complex colours of the rainbow cannot be explained by something as simple as refraction, but is more likely to be the record of an agreement made by some entity (nature unknown) with some other entity to do something. Critics of IC say it's just God's Covenant With Noah [about the rainbow] with the names crossed out...

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