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- From: Dieter Britz <BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk>
- Subject: Manners
- Message-ID: <C4E3223AF37F60083D@vms2.uni-c.dk>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Dieter Britz <BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk>
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:23:09 GMT
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- Originally-From: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
-
- >Dear Steve,
- >
- > Say what? Dr. Notoya works on this for six months, and you work on it for
- >one day, jump to a conclusion without consulting her, and *she* is notorious?
- >Let us just hold our horses, retrace our steps here, and see what is watt. Why
- >don't you please address some basic points, please:
- >...[Much stuff deleted here]
- >Morrison to boot! That is a high-handed thing to do to someone. I know this is
- >an informal forum here, but as the Japanese say, "manners matter, even among
- >friends." A five minute consultation is in order. Just fax her in advance and
-
- ... etc etc, at the great length we are trying to get accustomed to in Jed's
- writings. You are, as usual, putting up a smoke screen of verbiage here, mate.
- You forget that it was not Jones himself, but his graduate student, who was
- there. How could he take a bit of the wire home? Surreptitiously snip a bit of
- it off, while Notoya or you were not looking? The phrase "hair-fine" is
- commonly used, and everybody (except perhaps you) knows roughly what is meant:
- a very thin wire. From the data we have and your statement that it was silver,
- I have been able to roughly calculate its diameter. About 40 mu. Happy?
-
- Jed, to paraphrase the well known quote,
-
- "My Rothwell doth protest too much".
-
- I liked the Japanese quote about manners. I wish you would keep this in mind
- yourself, Jed, before boldly attacking eminent people such as Jones, Morrison,
- Huizenga, and Close. All these people know their physics, and are talking from
- that base. That is not to say that they can't be wrong sometimes, but you have
- to do more than impolitely threaten to "blow you out of the water", and the
- rest of your intemperate language you allow yourself to use on these people.
- You have to match them with physics or chemistry - but this would take you a
- good number of years of study, I am afraid.
-
- One thing you have not addressed is WHY such a fine wire was used there. You
- or Notoya clearly went to some trouble to put it there. As I say, it can't
- have been easy to solder it on, and one doesn't accidentally grab a bit of
- 40 mu wire instead of a normal lead, like the fat one connected to the other
- cell. Come on, allay my suspicions, convince me this was not a premeditated
- - shall we politely say, false-front PR demo setup.
- Don't wait for me to telephone/fax you, tell us here.
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- Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
- Kemisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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