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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Super Conducting Supercollider
- Date: 31 Jul 92 21:02:49 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <5568@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> <MATT.92Jul31102346@physics.berkeley.edu> <25116@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Jul31.185001.2485@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Jul31.185001.2485@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes...
- >In article <25116@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
- >
- > Moron or not, I think he was very effective in making his points.
- >
- > My favorite exchange, though, was the one about the Nobel Laureates.
- > "Nobel Laureates in physics? Who cares about them?"
- >
-
- I guess it depends on what you mean by "effective." Statements to the effect
- that particle physics has nothing to do with the origins of the universe
- and that if we want to understand it we need to study chemistry and biology
- just convinced me that he had *no* idea of what was going on around him.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
-